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Wikidata weekly summary #109

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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 (bugzilla:55347)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla: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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:01, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2014
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Hopetoun Falls in Beech Forest, a forest in Australia

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A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [1]
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This Month in Education: May 2014

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I don't get that

Hi Tom,

By a huge coincidence I added the birth-date of Janet Soskice very soon after you had created the article. Coincidence because I was working on random birthdays and she came up. What surprised me was that the edit time shown for the creation of the article is tomorrow. How does that work? Are you also Dr Who and are operating in the future. It made me smile with curiosity. You look like the sort of person that could explain it to a simple pensioner. Best Richard Avery (talk) 07:20, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

No, no, no. Ignore me Tom, I have muddled March and May. It must be a wonder I manage to get my trousers on the right way round in the morning. Apologies. As you were. Richard Avery (talk) 07:27, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

If I had time travel powers, messing with Wikipedia would be fairly low priority.

—Tom Morris (talk) 07:34, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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: Wikidata: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 (bugzilla: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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

This week's
article for improvement
(week 21, 2014)

The Battle of Varoux, part of the French Revolutionary Wars