Wikidata:Status updates/2014 11 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-11-22.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
• IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
• Building a periodic table using Wikidata
• Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
• The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
• Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
• Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
• WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
• VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
• Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page

Development

• When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
• Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
• The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
• Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
• While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
• More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
• Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
• Bug fixes
• Updated the property suggester with new data! :)

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! :)