Wikidata:Status updates/2014 05 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-05-03.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
• ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
• upcoming: Data Science Day
• upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns

Did you know?

• Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code

Development

• Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
• Big improvements in the DataModel implementation
• Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
• Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
• Started work on monolingual text datatype

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

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)