Wikidata:Status updates/2015 01 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-01-17.

Discussions

• RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎
• Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
• Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo

Events/Press/Blogs

• The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
• Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
• IRC office hour happened (log)
• Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
• MediaWiki Developer Summit

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The development plan has been updated and expanded
• Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
• Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
• Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically

Did you know?

• Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id

Development

• Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
• Worked on redesign of header area
• Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
• Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
• Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Anything to add? Please share! :)