Hey folks :) Here's your fresh serving of Wikidata news for the week.
Discussions - Notability of items<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_%26_early_creation_of_Wikidata_items> - Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Organizing_statements,_sitelinks,_and_external_identifiers> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Media Hack Days, Berlin <http://www.mediahackday.com/> March 22nd-23rd - Ateliers Wikidata<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#Bordeaux_22.2F03.2F2014>, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd Other Noteworthy Stuff - Happy Pi Day <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179736> - paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch<http://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata> Did you know? - Newest properties: NLC authorities<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1213> , Atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1212>, fuel system<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1211> , supercharger <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1210>, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1209> , ISMN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1208>, NUKAT authorities<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1207> Development - Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.) - Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading - Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier - Continued research for user interface redesign - Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54374> ) - Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62149> ) - Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation - Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase See current sprint items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata> for what we’re working on next. You can view the commits currently in review here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z> and the ones that have been merged here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z> . You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org> Monthly Tasks - Fix a format or content violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P640> for the Léonore ID (P640) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P640> property - Hack on one of these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515> . - Help develop the next summary here!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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