Wikidata:Status updates/2014 11 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-11-29.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
• Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
• Picture this!
• Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
• Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
• IRC office hour on Wednesday

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
• Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
• VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier

Did you know?

• Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer

Development

• Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
• Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
• Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
• Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
• Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
• Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
• Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
• Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
• JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
• Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
• Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
• Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
• Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
• Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing

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

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