Hey folks :) It's been a busy week. Here's the short version of it for you to catch up:
Discussions - RfC: Quality is measurable<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Quality_is_measurable> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Announcing ToolScript <http://blog.magnusmanske.de/?p=189>. With ToolScript <http://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/> can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools - Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome<http://www.haykranen.nl/2014/04/03/feline-mayors-of-the-world-or-why-wikidata-is-awesome/> - A Rijksmuseum <http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=190804> representative indicated what kind of information<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-and-naval-history.html> she hopes Wikidata will deliver Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow. - Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt! - Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website!<http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2014/04/qlabel-multilingual-content-without.html> How awesome is this? Very! - Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata> Did you know? - Newest properties: KulturNav-id<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1248> , compression ratio <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1247>, patent number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1246>, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1245>, phone number<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1244> , International Standard Recording Code<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1243> , Theatricalia play ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1242>, Swiss Football Association Club Number<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1241> , Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1240> ,ISFDB publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1239>, Swedish Football Association ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1238>, Box Office Mojo film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1237>, Parsons code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1236>, ISFDB series ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1235> , ISFDB publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1234>, ISFDB author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1233>, Linguist list code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1232>, NARA online catalogue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1231> Development - Still looking for an awesome intern.<http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Working_student_Wikidata_(f/m)> Do you know someone who'd fit? - Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality - Finishing touches for Statements on properties - Worked on better error messages when parsing failed - Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language - Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded - Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery - Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys - Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are - Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update - Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase> - Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.) - Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.<http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2014/04/10/diff-1-0-released/> 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/P135> for the movement (P135) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P135> 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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