Wikidata:Status updates/2013 06 28
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-06-28.
Discussions[edit]
- Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
- Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
- RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]
- d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
- Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
Did you know?[edit]
- Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
Development[edit]
- The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
- Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
- Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
- Added serializers for the Ask query language
- Buuuugfixes and testing
- Refactoring
- Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
- Began working on a new mobile Skin for Wikidata
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review here and the ones that have been merged here.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
Open Tasks for You[edit]
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these
Anything to add? Please share! :)