Wikidata:Status updates/2013 06 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-06-07.

Discussions

• Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)

Events/Press

• Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
• SemTechBiz
• WMF metrics and activities meeting
• "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
• en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
• Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
• Average edits per page has passed 4

Did you know?

• Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
• Newest task forces: Catalunya task force

Development

• Worked on globe coordinate editing
• Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
• EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
• First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
• Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
• Made the DataValue component installable via Composer

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

You can view the commits currently in review here and the ones that have been merged here.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Open Tasks for You

• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
• Respond to a "Request for Comment"
• Hack on one of these

Anything to add? Please share! :)