Wikidata:Status updates/2014 10 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-10-11.

Discussions

• Open RfA: Nikosguard

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
• Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
• Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number

Development

• Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
• More fixes for the switch to HHVM
• Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
• Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
• Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)