Wikidata:Status updates/2014 08 30
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-08-30.
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- past: OpenSym
- upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- New Main Page and other new features
- Breaking changes for gadgets
- Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
Development edit
- Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
- Added a new “item-redirect” permission
- Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
- DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
- Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
- Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
- Attended OpenSym
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
Monthly Tasks edit
- 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! :)