Hi everyone,

In a change to the 2015 tradition (which broke 2014 tradition), here's the
weekly update being published by me. Here's the summary of everything
Wikidata over the past week and a thanks to Lydia for doing this for the
past few weeks :)

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit&section=1>
]

   - Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
   - Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups/2015-02-23-Berlin>

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit&section=2>
]

   - As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their
   sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks>
   - ViziData
   - Update on data quality project
   - Update on structured data for Commons
   - Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module?
   - Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...)
   on Wikidata

Did you know?[edit
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit&section=3>
]

   - Newest properties: pinyin transliteration
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1721>, posthumous name
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1720>, temple name
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1719>, courtesy name
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1718>, SANDRE ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1717>, brand
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1716>
   - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
   : Montblanc <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761735>

Development

   - Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
   - Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query
   functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and
   languages
   - Worked on RDF mapping/export
   - Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in
   Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
   - Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are
   alphabetically ordered
   - Made the diff views for dates easier to read
   - Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
   - Continued work on header redesign
   - Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and
   aliases in one page
   - Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to
   use phantomjs

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.
   - d:Wikidata:Glossary
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary> could
   use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you
   help?
   - 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>
   - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or
   proofread pages in your own language!
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