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Wikidata weekly summary #83
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
 * Lua enhancements discussion
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
 * On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
 * Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
 * Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
 * Newest task forces: Athletics task force
 * You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
 * Development
 * Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
 * Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (44876)
 * More work on badges by mlazowik
 * Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
 * Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (49434)
 * Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (55667)
 * Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
 * Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
 * Fix validation of wbsetreference
 * Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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Wikidata weekly summary #84
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Geocoordinates on people
 * Instances of human
 * Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
 * Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
 * Wikidata office hour logs are available here
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
 * The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
 * Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
 * Newest task forces:
 * Development
 * Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bug 46538)
 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
 * Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
 * Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
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Wikidata weekly summary #85
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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
 * Closed: Commons links
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * An interview with Denny Vrandečić
 * WikiCon 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reasonator now supports cities and locations
 * The quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
 * Development
 * Refactored Api output
 * Collect tasks for Google Code In
 * Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
 * Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
 * Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
 * Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
 * Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
 * Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
 * Improved Wikibase Lua code
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
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Wikidata weekly summary #88
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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
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Wikidata weekly summary #86
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 21:41, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Showcase items - take 2
 * Verified statements
 * Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Closed: Image properties
 * Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
 * Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
 * Newest task forces: Sports results task force
 * Development
 * Ranks are nearing completion (49120)
 * Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - 54318)
 * Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
 * Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
 * Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
 * Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
 * Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
 * Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (54324)
 * Released the Datavalues library
 * Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
 * Defined permissions for Simple Queries
 * First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #91
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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
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Wikidata weekly summary #87
<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 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #89
<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 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #90
<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 23:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over handling of items
 * RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
 * Closed: Inactive administrators
 * Closed: Bot policy
 * Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
 * Open RfA: GerardM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: chromosome, produces
 * Development
 * Redesign and improvement of bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
 * Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
 * Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
 * Some progress on redirects
 * Tests, tests, tests
 * Vacations \o/
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

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Large scale import of open access articles
Hi Daniel, I've been thinking about the possibility of uploading a large quantity of open access journal articles - by large I mean in the region of 1,000,000 - to Wikimedia, presumably Wikisource. Then I noticed that this is something you proposed way back in 2011! I'd love to automatically harvest all CC-BY licensed journals and repositories for inclusion, but I don't exactly how it could be achieved. If you're still interested in the idea we should have a chat about it some time. - Lawsonstu (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am still working on it and plan to set up a workflow for that as part of the OA signalling project - the idea here would be to signal OA-ness by linking to a copy on Wikimedia servers. Needs community approval. Biggest hurdle may be non-text files in formats not accepted on Commons (e.g. doc and xls). I'm available to discuss this for most of the coming days. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:12, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #92
<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 09:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
 * Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
 * Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
 * A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
 * Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
 * Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
 * Development
 * Adrian Lang joins the team
 * Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
 * Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (49079)
 * No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (58422)
 * More performance improvement work
 * Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
 * Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
 * Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (47070)
 * Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
 * Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
 * Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
 * Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
 * Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
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This Month in GLAM: December 2013
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Translation into Russian
Hey Daniel. Would having any of these articles translated into Russian be useful? If you are willing to integrate them we can look at having Translators Without Borders find translators. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Just did a few. Will get back as time permits. Haven't acted on several that would be "maybe translate" for me, and could not find guidance on how to handle that. --<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;"> Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #93
<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 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Events
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
 * Reasonator gets extended functionality
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
 * Showcase items: ethanol
 * Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
 * Development
 * Enabled language links for Wikisource
 * Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
 * Database performance improvements
 * Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
 * Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
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 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
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Wikidata weekly summary #94
<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 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
 * FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
 * Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
 * Showcase items: Cactaceae
 * Development
 * Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
 * 60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
 * 58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
 * 50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
 * 57213 API now reveals data type ids
 * 57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
 * 55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
 * Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
 * Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
 * Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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The Signpost: 22 January 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #95
<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 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
 * Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities released on Wikidata!
 * Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms, flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
 * Development
 * Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
 * Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
 * Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
 * Moved Diff repo to Github
 * Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
 * Refactoring of the ValueView extension
 * MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
 * Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
 * Fixed wbmergeitems issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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Please comment on Talk:Blood
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Wikidata weekly summary #96
<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 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the naming of people
 * Discussion over population
 * Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * See the office hours logs at meta
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * See the FOSDEM slides
 * Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
 * Development
 * More work on badges by Bene*
 * Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
 * Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
 * Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
 * Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
 * Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item