Wikidata:Status updates/2015 02 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-02-07.

Discussions

• Open RfAs: BlackBeast

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Europeana Tech
• Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
• Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
• Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
• Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
• Mix'n'Match got a face lift
• Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
• RStats client for Wikidata
• Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French

Did you know?

• Showcase items: Lucy (first name)

Development

• Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
• Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
• Further work on header section redesign
• Tweaks to the sitelink section
• Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
• Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
• Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
• Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)

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
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Anything to add? Please share! :)