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Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 20:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
 * Development
 * Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
 * Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
 * When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
 * Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
 * Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
 * Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
 * Work on entity usage tracking
 * Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
 * Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
 * Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
 * Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-44
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself.
 * There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly.
 * There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday.
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf5 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData.
 * VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them.
 * VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit".
 * The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6.  

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Wikidata weekly summary #131
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 14:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
 * Wikidata II
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
 * Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
 * What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
 * Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
 * Random items without statements
 * Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
 * Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
 * Development
 * Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
 * HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
 * Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
 * Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
 * Work on fixing XML dumps
 * Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
 * Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
 * Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
 * Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
 * Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
 * Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
 * 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