Wikidata:Status updates/2015 08 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-08-29.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Merging relationship properties

Events/Press/Blogs

• Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
• Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
• First version of units is ready for testing

Did you know?

• Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
• Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
• Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
• Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras

Development

• Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
• Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
• Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
• API breaking change coming soon
• API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
• Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
• Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
• Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as mw.wikibase.label which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885)
• Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
• Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
• Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
• Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
• Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
• Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
• Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)