Wikidata:Status updates/2014 04 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-04-26.

Discussions

• Discussion over property creation guidelines
• Open RfA: JurgenNL

Events/Press/Blogs

• 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

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

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)