Hey folks :) Here's your overview of what was important around Wikidata this week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/19/wikidata-at-wikimania-2014-in-london/> - "Growing items" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lounge/Growing_items> by User:Micru <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Micru>, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items Other Noteworthy Stuff - The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Project_chat#The_new_Main_page_is_coming.21> for more details and to leave any last comments - It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday. - Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar> on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata. - Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour? Did you know? - Newest properties: list of monuments <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1456>, list of works <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1455>, legal form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1454>, catholic.ru ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1453>, motto <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1451>, Sandbox Monolingual text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1450>, nickname <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449>, official name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448>, Sports Reference ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1447>, people missing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1446>, fictional universe described in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1445> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Structured_Data_for_Commons> Development - Deployed lots of new features <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004413.html> like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects! - Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time. - More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it. 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 - 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 have 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> 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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