Wikidata:Status updates/2015 07 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-07-11.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
• Past: Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
• Upcoming: Wikimania

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
• Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
• Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier

Development

• The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
• 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
• Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
• Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
• More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
• Further work on the new RDF export.
• PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)