Wikidata:Status updates/2014 10 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-10-25.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game

Did you know?

• Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number

Development

• Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
• Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
• When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
• Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
• Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
• Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
• Work on entity usage tracking
• Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
• Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
• Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
• Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps

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! :)