Wikidata:Status updates/2015 02 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-02-28.

Discussions

• RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria

Events/Press/Blogs

• Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
• Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
• Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
• Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
• Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
• New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
• There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
• Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
• Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
• Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
• You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)

Development

• Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
• Updated the json documentation
• Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
• Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
• Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
• Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
• Final touches on new header design
• Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
• More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
• Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
• Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks

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! :)