Wikidata:Status updates/2015 01 31
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-01-31.
Discussions edit
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
- Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
- The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
Development edit
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Anything to add? Please share! :)