Wikidata:Status updates/2014 11 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-11-08.

Discussions

• Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data

Events/Press/Blogs

Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

• Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
• Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries

Did you know?

• Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
• Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID

Development

• Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
• Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
• Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
• Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
• Lots of bug fixes all over the place

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! :)