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Tech news: 2013-24
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13.
 * An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/preparing-for-visualeditor-on-all-wikipedias/ test it and report problems].
 * Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
 * Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels|IRC channel on Freenode.
 * The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates.
 * A test instance of Wikidata is now available at [//test.wikidata.org test.wikidata.org].
 * Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges.
 * Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713).


 * Future software changes:


 * A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon.
 * A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Wikidata weekly summary #62
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:01, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
 * The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
 * And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
 * Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
 * If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
 * Development
 * More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
 * Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
 * Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
 * EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Tech News: 2013-25
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20.
 * The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11.
 * VisualEditor news:
 * VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
 * Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons..
 * VisualEditor also allows editing references.
 * The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word  to mark disambiguation pages.
 * The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.


 * Future software changes:


 * Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18.
 * Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features.
 * Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector.
 * It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836).
 * A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123).
 * A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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Wikidata weekly summary #63
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:55, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
 * Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
 * Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
 * RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
 * RfC about personal names
 * Events/Press
 * Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
 * Development
 * Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
 * Further work on input validation
 * Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
 * Use Serializers for generating API results
 * Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
 * Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
 * Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
 * Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Tech news: 2013-26
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27.
 * Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias.
 * The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333).
 * The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505).
 * After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18.
 * VisualEditor news:
 * A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
 * A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet.
 * It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis.


 * Future software changes:


 * The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977).
 * Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25.
 * The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations.
 * The related changes special page will now include upload log entries.
 * It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations.
 * MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another.
 * The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary.
 * The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013.

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Wikidata weekly summary #64
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 23:54, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
 * Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
 * RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
 * Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
 * Development
 * The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
 * Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
 * Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (49080)
 * Added serializers for the Ask query language
 * Buuuugfixes and testing
 * Refactoring
 * Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Tech news: 2013-27
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
 * On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on.
 * A JavaScript problem caused the "" and "" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196).
 * There was a short site outage on June 28.
 * The automated Category: now includes broken file links inserted inside the  tag (bug #50119).
 * The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area.
 * There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040).
 * The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it.
 * VisualEditor news:
 * Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
 * VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
 * In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
 * Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
 * TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
 * Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
 * Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015).


 * Future software changes:
 * VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
 * From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages (bug-49505>bugzilla:49505|bug #49505).
 * The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9.


 * Erratum
 * Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added.

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Wikidata weekly summary #65
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 16:55, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
 * RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
 * Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
 * One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
 * Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
 * Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
 * Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
 * Development
 * Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: Roadmap
 * Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
 * Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
 * Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
 * Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
 * Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
 * Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
 * Lots of bugfixing
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Tech news: 2013-28
Latest technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28|Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * VisualEditor news:
 * VisualEditor deployment [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVisualEditor%2FFeedback&diff=563042612&oldid=563038914 has been delayed] by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
 * A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed.
 * Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
 * Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287).
 * Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners.

Future software changes


 * MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the  tag (bug #8480).
 * It will now be possible to create empty  messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124).
 * The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again.
 * The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183).
 * Table of contents will now use the HTML  element instead of , fixing a nine–year–old bug #658.
 * First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project.
 * A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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Wikidata weekly summary #66
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 14:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment on defining administrator activity
 * A request for comment on image properties
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
 * Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
 * Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
 * Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
 * Development
 * Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
 * Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
 * Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
 * The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Tech News: 2013-29
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18.
 * The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the  code to disambiguation templates ([//de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=120414784&oldid=76564202 see example]).
 * The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions.
 * The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
 * VisualEditor news:
 * According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
 * Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
 * Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
 * Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
 * Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
 * The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.

Future software changes
 * A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos.
 * The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed.
 * Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them.
 * Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later.
 * Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22.
 * A new [//tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_media image gallery design] has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
 * An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion).

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Wikidata weekly summary #67
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:34, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
 * Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
 * Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
 * Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
 * Events/Press
 * Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698), Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
 * 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
 * Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
 * Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
 * Development
 * Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
 * Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
 * Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
 * Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
 * Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
 * Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
 * Templates no longer parsed in labels.
 * Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
 * Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
 * Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
 * Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Hack on one of these

Tech News: 2013-30
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25.
 * A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs.
 * VisualEditor news:
 * The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29.
 * A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
 * SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
 * Users can now edit  blocks (bug #47678).
 * When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text.
 * Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
 * A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.

Future software changes


 * The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed.
 * Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457).
 * A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org.

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Wikidata weekly summary #68
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:47, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
 * Events/Press
 * Next office hour on August 26
 * upcoming: COSCUP
 * upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
 * There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
 * Picture of the week could use some more input
 * Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
 * Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
 * Development
 * When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (36729)
 * Ranking of the search results has been improved
 * Worked on URL data type
 * Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
 * Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
 * Fixed 52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
 * Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
 * Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
 * Made tests more reliable
 * Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
 * Worked on Time value formatter
 * Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
 * Work on implementing QueryEntity
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.