Hey folks :)

Here are the important things that 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 hour on IRC on Friday
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-January/005222.html>.
   You should come :)
   - Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
      - We had a meetup with nine people:
      - set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland
      <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland>
      (sound recording of meeting available)
    - Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
      - For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
      <http://wiki.opendataday.org/2015/City_Events>
      - Open Data Camp UK <http://odcamp.org.uk/posts/>, Saturday/Sunday
      21st/22nd February 2015

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you
   all!

Did you know?

   - Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1698>, Total valid votes
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1697>, inverse of
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1696>, NLP identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1695>
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Food
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Food>, UK and Ireland
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland>,
   Suisse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Suisse>
   - Newest gadgets: ExportClaims
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/ExportClaims.js>, *Mark
   as patrolled* from list of changes
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/Mark_as_patrolled.js>

Development

   - The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata
   on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a
   sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
   - More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster
   for some pages :)
   - Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query
   service running in production
   
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-January/000706.html>
   - Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change
   to HTTPS-only
   - Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias,
   in-other-languages box)
   - Polished d:Wikidata:Data access
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access> and d:Wikidata:Database
   download <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download>.
   Could still use some more work though if you have time.
   - Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones
   to make us aware of more code issues
   - We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>
Monthly Tasks

   - Hack on one of these
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>.
   - 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_items>

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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