Hi everyone,

Here is the latest update of everything going on around Wikidata!

Discussions

   - Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Reforming_administrator_inactivity_criteria>

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

   - WikiArabia <http://arabia.wikimedia.tn/index.php?title=Main_Page> takes
   place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
   - The GLAM-WIKI 2015 <http://www.glamwiki.nl/> conference in The Hague
   (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata
   for/with cultural institutions.
   - The Library world will use Wikidata
   
<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/04/viaf-move-over-wikipedia-for-wikidata.html>
to
   link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but
   every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
   - Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
   <http://infobib.de/2015/04/01/seo-freebase-und-wikidata/>
   - Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and
   admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log
   
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-03-31-16.00.log.html>
   .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tour.html#slide.3D0>.
   - A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005724.html>.
   It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
   - Italian Wikipedia's quality festival
   
<https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Festival_della_qualit%C3%A0/Aprile_2015>
is
   focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
   - Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/>.
   - Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks
   against 3rd party databases have been posted.
   <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/582545229884063744>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties: choreographer
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1809>, senat.fr ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1808>, Great Aragonese
   Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1807>

Development

   - Wikidata development started 3 years ago
   <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/583220841711845376>. <3 to everyone
   who is a part of it.
   - Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist
   integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Watchlist_integration_improvement_input#First_iteration_on_feedback_by_dev_team>
   - Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)>-Beta dumps in place. All
   new Wikidata dumps will be in
   https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the
   old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for
   backwards compatibility).
   - Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to
   make the UI faster).
   - Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be
   cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92831>)
   - Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.

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>
   - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or
   proofread pages in your own language!
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