Wikidata:Status updates/2015 02 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-02-21.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
• Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• 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?

• Newest properties: pinyin transliteration, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
• Showcase items: Montblanc

Development

• 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

• 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! :)