Hey folks :) Here's your weekly serving of Wikidata news. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Discussions - Discussion over property creation guidelines<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Clarifying_the_requirements_for_property_creation> - Open RfA: JurgenNL<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/JurgenNL> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-05-01> - Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Indian_Parliamentarian_Label-a-thon> is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha. - In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16438247> are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata. - Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know. Did you know? - Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1259> , Rotten Tomatoes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1258>, depicts Iconclass representation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1257>, Iconclass notation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1256>, Helveticarchives ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1255>, Slovenska biografija ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1254>, BCU Ecrivainsvd<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1253> , AUSTLANG code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1252>, ABS ASCL code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1251> Development - Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata - We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua) - Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues - Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester - Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting) - Worked more on making error messages localizable - Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4<https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-074-2014-04-24> 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/P512> for the academic degree (P512) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512> 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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