Wikidata:Status updates/2014 08 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-08-09.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
• Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
• Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines (Guardian article)
• Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
• First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
• Userboxes

Did you know?

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings

Development

• Attended Wikimania and Socrates
• Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
• Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)