Wikidata:Status updates/2015 09 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-09-05.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
• Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
• Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
• Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
• A new version of Kian has been released
• The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
• A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
• >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
• You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
• Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
• Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
• A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID

Development

• Worked on search on the mobile site
• Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
• We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
• Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
• Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
• Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)