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Wikidata weekly summary #107
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 20:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over property creation guidelines
 * Open RfA: JurgenNL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
 * Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
 * In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
 * Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
 * Development
 * Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
 * We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
 * Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
 * Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
 * Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
 * Worked more on making error messages localizable
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #108
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
 * ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
 * upcoming: Data Science Day
 * upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
 * Development
 * Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
 * Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
 * Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
 * Started work on monolingual text datatype
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #109
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:02, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Developer user group
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
 * Development
 * Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
 * More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
 * Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
 * Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (55347)
 * Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (63309)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
 * Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
 * Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
 * The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
 * The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest task forces: WikiProject Mathematics
 * Development
 * We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
 * Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
 * Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
 * Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
 * Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
 * Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
 * Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
 * Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
 * Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
 * Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
 * Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (64741)
 * More testing on simple queries
 * Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 16:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Draft articles
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata office hour log
 * Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
 * Play the Wikidata Game
 * Development
 * jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
 * More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
 * Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
 * Continued working on monolingual text data type
 * Continued making messages easier to understand
 * Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #111
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
 * Wikidata:Tours
 * RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Slides from WikiConference USA
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
 * Development
 * More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
 * More work on monolingual text datatype
 * Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like 65398
 * Made progress on globe precision issues (65535 and 64887)
 * Cleaned up installation instructions
 * Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #112
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
 * Development
 * Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
 * thePHPcc thinghy
 * Released DataValues Time 0.6
 * Add time support to QueryEngine
 * Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
 * Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
 * Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
 * Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
 * Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
 * Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #113
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 22:17, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
 * Discussion: Delete as a new user group
 * RfC: Refining "part of"
 * Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
 * Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
 * Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
 * Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
 * The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
 * Newest task forces: Sports task forces
 * Development
 * Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
 * Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
 * Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
 * Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
 * Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
 * More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
 * Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
 * Enabled data access for Wikiquote
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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 has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #114
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:29, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Idea collection: data quality and trust
 * Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
 * User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
 * First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
 * GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
 * ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
 * New task forces: LGBT task force
 * Development
 * Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
 * Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
 * Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
 * Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
 * Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
 * Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
 * Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
 * Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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 has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Note from John
 * Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)

Wikidata weekly summary #115
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 11:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Second UI designs are now up for comments
 * Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
 * Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
 * Development
 * Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
 * Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
 * Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
 * Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
 * The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
 * Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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 has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #116
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A question from an intern
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
 * Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
 * Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
 * As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
 * Development
 * Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
 * Deployed entity suggester.
 * More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
 * Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
 * Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
 * Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
 * Fixed bugs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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 has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #117
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improving the FAQ
 * Should we link to restricted access databases?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
 * We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
 * Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
 * Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
 * Development
 * Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
 * CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
 * Further progress on redirects
 * Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
 * Continued work on mockups for new user interface
 * Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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 has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #118
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:14, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about removing person data
 * Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Main Page redesign suggestions
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
 * Development
 * Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
 * Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
 * Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
 * Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
 * Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #119
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 22:48, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * User conduct policies RfC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 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 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?
 * Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
 * Development
 * 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 parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #120
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Gabbe
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
 * Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: published in
 * Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
 * Development
 * Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
 * More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * More work on the monolingual datatype
 * Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
 * Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #121
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
 * Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
 * Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
 * Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
 * First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
 * Userboxes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
 * Development
 * Attended Wikimania and Socrates
 * Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
 * Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #122
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<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
 * Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
 * New task forces: WikiProject Movies
 * Development
 * Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
 * Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
 * Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
 * We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
 * Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
 * Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Wikidata weekly summary #123
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
 * "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
 * It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
 * Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
 * Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
 * Development
 * Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
 * Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
 * More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
 * Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #124
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 00:18, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: OpenSym
 * upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Main Page and other new features
 * Breaking changes for gadgets
 * Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
 * Development
 * Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
 * Added a new “item-redirect” permission
 * Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
 * DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
 * Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
 * Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
 * Attended OpenSym
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #125
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 18:43, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histropedia Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia]
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/08/outreach-program-for-women-at-wikidata Wikidata Outreach: What happened?]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new main page can now be translated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio, FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
 * Development
 * Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
 * Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
 * Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
 * Worked more on enabling statements on properties
 * Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
 * First pokes at usage tracking
 * Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
 * Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #126
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A new blocking policy has been accepted.
 * Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
 * RfC: redirect vs. deletion
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
 * upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
 * WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
 * Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
 * Development
 * Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
 * Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (66425)
 * Fixed broken xml api output (70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
 * Finished performance improvements for badges
 * Worked on entity usage tracking
 * Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
 * Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
 * Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
 * Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
 * Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
 * Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment
 * Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite 70606)
 * Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
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 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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