Wikidata:Status updates/2014 09 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-09-27.

Discussions

• A new blocking policy has been accepted.
• Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
• RfC: redirect vs. deletion

Events/Press/Blogs

• past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
• upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
• WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
• Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek

Development

• Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
• Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
• Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
• Finished performance improvements for badges
• Worked on entity usage tracking
• Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
• Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
• Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
• Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
• Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
• Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
• Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
• Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530

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! :)