[Wikidata] weekly summary 222

Hey folks :) Here is your weekly summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions - New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata Events

[Wikidata] New gadget to sort the statements on items

Hello everybody, As the sorting of the statements on a item page had issues for a while, I'm glad to annouce that there's now a gagdet for it! Gadget-statementSort.js sort all the statements of an item, based on a properties ordered

[Wikidata] WMDE recruiting a PHP backend software developer for Wikidata

Have you ever wanted to join the Wikidata development team? Maybe this needs your attention ;) Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a PHP Software Developer to work on programming and maintaining backend functionality of Wikidata and other services. He/she will be responsible for devising, impleme

[Wikidata] Policy on Interface Stability: final feedback wanted

Hello all, repeated discussions about what constitutes a breaking change has prompted us, the Wikidata development team, to draft a policy on interface stability. The policy is intended to clearly define what kind of change will be announced when and where. A draft of the policy can be found at

Re: [Wikidata] Breaking change in JSON serialization?

Am 11.08.2016 um 23:12 schrieb Peter F. Patel-Schneider: > Until suitable versioning is part of the Wikidata JSON dump format and > contract, however, I don't think that consumers of the dumps should just > ignore new fields. Full versioning is still in the future, but I'm happy that we are in the

Re: [Wikidata] Breaking change in JSON serialization?

On 08/16/2016 07:57 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Am 11.08.2016 um 23:12 schrieb Peter F. Patel-Schneider: >> Until suitable versioning is part of the Wikidata JSON dump format and >> contract, however, I don't think that consumers of the dumps should just >> ignore new fields. > > Full versioning i

[Wikidata] pattern for linking to linked data ?

I am about to propose much more widespread use of Property:P2888 "exact match" for linking from a wikidata item to a URI that should resolve to linked data about the same concept from another semantic web resource. (amongst the biomedical items that our team works with) Is there any other pattern