Hey everyone, Here is the latest summary of everything happening around Wikidata!
Read the summary in your language at < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_07_05 > Discussions - A question from an intern <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#What_do_you_wish_you_had_known_when_you_first_started_using_and.2For_contributing_to_Wikidata.3F> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Open Hack Day <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack>, 5th and 6th of July, London Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004148.html> - Lydia needs your help with some selfies <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004146.html> (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_selfies>) - Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation <http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/#mode=occupation> - As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:User:Thepwnco> is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Discoveranjali> is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata. Did you know? - Newest properties: replaced by structure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1398>, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1397>, Linguasphere code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1396>, NCI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1395>,Glottolog code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1394>, proxy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1393>, ComicBookDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1392>, Index Fungorum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1391> Development - Upcoming API change (wblinktitle) <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004190.html> - Deployed entity suggester. - More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D - Continued work on user interface redesign mockups - Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive. - Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work. - Fixed bugs See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re working on next. 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/P850> for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850> 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 fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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>
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