Wikidata:Status updates/2013 10 18

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-10-18.

Discussions

• Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
• Requests for comment over restructuring user rights

Events/Press/Blogs

• Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
• Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
• Newest task forces: International relations task force

Development

• Further development on WikibaseDatabase
• IE8 is working again
• JSON documentation created and merged
• Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
• Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896

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

• Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
• Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
• Respond to a "Request for Comment".
• Hack on one of these.

Anything to add? Please share! :)