Hi everyone,

Here is the lastest weekly summary:

Discussions[edit
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   - Open RfA: Nikosguard
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nikosguard>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit
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   - Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit
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   - All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of
   approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" -
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear
   here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
   - Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now
   a new newsletter
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_data_for_multimedia>
you
   can subscribe to.
   - Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata
   Stats <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php> every now and
   then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)

Did you know?[edit
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   - Newest properties: UBERON ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1554>, Yandex.Music ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1553>, has quality
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552>, Exceptionnal heritage of
   Wallonia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1551>, Orphanet ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1550>,demonym (monoligual text)
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1549>, maximum Strahler number
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1548>

Development[edit
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   - Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more
   clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a
   lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape
at Commons:Structured
   data <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>.
   - More fixes for the switch to HHVM
   - Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be
   taken into the next sprint.
   - Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
   - Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released

Monthly Tasks

   - 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>
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