Very nice. Thanks so much! Gerd

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Lydia Pintscher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Heya folks :)
>
> I'll be doing weekly summaries of what's been happening around
> Wikidata. This is the first one. The plan is to collect them and then
> make a blog post out of them every month.
> The wiki version of this can be found at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_04_13
>
> = Development =
> * drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model
> * drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/API
> * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development has useful infos
> for setting up a dev environment (but you probably want to wait a bit
> with that still until we've worked out some more quirks)
> * finished first scrum cycle:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Scrum_cycle_archive
> ** implemented the data grid view which basically is an overview page
> for the data of one Wikidata item
> ** implemented basic functionality for editing some of the information
> in data grid dynamically (item label and description) with a
> JavaScript generated user interface
> ** lots of struggling with git
> ** created proper base for Wikibase and Wikibase Client extensions,
> including things such as i18n files, settings files, and a skeleton
> for the API
> ** created skeleton pages for the extensions on MediaWiki.org:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase and
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client
> ** WikibaseClient extension has its basic functionality implemented.
> Whenever a page is rendered, the extension loads the information about
> interlanguage links from the repository, sorts the links, and displays
> them.
> ** WikibaseClient extension also defines a new magic word/parser
> function {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}}. It can disable fetching the links
> from the repository completely (when used on its own as
> {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}} or with asterisk as a parameter as
> {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:*}}), or just remove the links for certain
> languages (for example {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:de|fr}} will remove the
> links to German and French). It remains possible to add new
> interlanguage links just like it is now and the new links will be
> sorted together with the external interlanguage links.
> * start of second scrum cycle:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle
>
> You can follow commits at
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataClient.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD
> and 
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataRepo.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD
> (stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there)
>
> = Diskussions/Press =
> * Kurier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Wikidata
> (This will probably be archived soon. I will summarize and address the
> comments there in a blog post in the next days.)
> * The Atlantic:
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikidata/255564/
> (please also read Denny's important comment there)
> * Signpost: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-09/Wikidata
>
> = Events =
> * held first office hours on IRC (logs at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours)
> * attended/presented at the Berlin Semantic Web meetup:
> http://www.meetup.com/The-Berlin-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/56299712/
> * upcoming: WWW2012: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
>
> = other stuff =
> * published team intro:
> http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/04/04/meet-the-wikidata-team/
> * published some basic assumptions and requirements:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Requirements
> * search for an initial logo:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate
> and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_logo_proposals
> (still have to get to promoting this and making this less painful)
> * volunteer page started: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers
> * collecting use-cases:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Queries and
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Infoboxes
>
> If you have anything to add please share it.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
> PS: In case you have not seen it yet I'm posting daily updates on
> twitter and identi.ca (@wikidata).
>
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