Wikidata:Status updates/2015 03 07
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-03-07.
Discussions
[edit]- Open RfA: Haplology
- upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
- upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
Other Noteworthy Stuff
[edit]- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
- The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
Did you know?
[edit]- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items: Symphony No. 7
Development
[edit]- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks
[edit]- 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! :)