Heya folks :)
Here's what's been happening over the last week.
As always the wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_10_19
= Development =
* Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository
to client should work:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
* Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
* Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML:
http://wikidata-docs.wikimedia.de/htmlvalidation/
* Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
* Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
* Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
* Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
* Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties
for chemical elements
* Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
* Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
* Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
* Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and
deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
* Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
* There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for
entities to identifiers that also carry type
* Made site links table sortable
* Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both
not finished yet)
* Latest review status update:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063924.html
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase)+OR+(status:merged+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase),n,z
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z
= Discussions/Press =
* Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-15/Technology_report
* Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001106.html
* Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063909.html
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikimedia CEE meeting
* upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
* upcoming: SMWCon
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours
= Open Tasks for You =
* Help design the Main Page of Wikidata:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20keywords_type=allwordsemailcc1=1list_id=151541resolution=---emailtype1=exactemailassigned_to1=1query_format=advancedemail1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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