Wikidata:Status updates/2015 02 21
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-02-21.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
edit- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
- ViziData
- Update on data quality project
- Update on structured data for Commons
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
- Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
Did you know?
edit- Newest properties: pinyin transliteration, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
- Showcase items: Montblanc
Development
edit- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
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.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
- 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! :)