Wikidata:Status updates/2015 02 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-02-14.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Europeana Tech
• Wir lieben Freie Software
• Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
• New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
• You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
• Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
• The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
• Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins

Development

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• We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
• We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
• Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
• Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
• Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
• Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
• Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
• Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
• Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
• Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
• Fixed editing of qualifiers
• Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design

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! :)