Wikidata:Status updates/2014 07 26
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-07-26.
Discussions
[edit]Other Noteworthy Stuff
[edit]- The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
- User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
- Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
- Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
Did you know?
[edit]- Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
Development
[edit]- Published the first JSON dumps
- Finishing touches on badges support
- Finishing touches on redirects
- Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
- Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
- Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
- The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
- Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
Monthly Tasks
[edit]- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item