Hey folks :)

Here's what happened around Wikidata over the last week:

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd).
   More details on the office hour page
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>.
   - GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Help make sure these items
   
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A17442550%5D>
   have labels in your language

Did you know?

   - Newest properties: NATO code for grade
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1611>

Development

   - Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
   - Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
   - Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and
   decreased the memory usage)
   - Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
   - Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label
   lookup for improved performance.
   - Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
   - Improved calendar model display

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

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Product Manager for Wikidata

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