Heya folks :) Here's what happened around Wikidata last week. Enjoy!
Discussions - Wikiquote notability<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikiquote_notability> - Belongs to jurisdiction<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Property:_belongs_to_jurisdiction> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Cambridge revisited II<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/wikidata-cambridge-revisited-ii.html> documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map. - Cambridge revisited V<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/reasonator-cambridge-revisited-v.html> shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels. - The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/commons-and-wikidata-architecture-of.html> discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files. - Spaghetti Open Data<http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/it/page/benvenut-sod14>, Bologna. March 28th - 30th - GLAM Treffen<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:GLAM/Projekte_2014>, Bremen. March 29th - 30th Did you know? - Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1214> Development - Continued making the UI faster - Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62149> ) - Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion - Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component - wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache - Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs - Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters - Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time - Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support - Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon) 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/P364> for the *original language (P364) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P364>* 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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