Wikidata:Status updates/2014 12 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-12-13.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
• Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
• past: Wikidata workshop in NYC

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data

Did you know?

• Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music

Development

• More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
• Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
• Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
• Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
• Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
• Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
• Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
• Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing

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! :)