Wikidata:Status updates/2014 09 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-09-13.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia
• Wikidata Outreach: What happened?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The new main page can now be translated.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio , FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID

Development

• Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
• Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
• Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
• Worked more on enabling statements on properties
• Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
• First pokes at usage tracking
• Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled

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! :)