Heya folks :) Here's your update on what's hot in and around Wikidata for the week before 2012-08-24. Fancy a wiki version? Here you go: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_24
= Development = * Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-August/000979.html https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again * Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/UI_Layout_Concept#Phase_II_layouts) * Started refactoring of selenium tests layout * Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation * Created abstract storage interface for the repository * Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities * Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622 * Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects * The new API module for linking titles is live * Launched a demo client site in Hebrew: http://wikidata-test-client-he.wikimedia.de/ * Various internationalization improvements and fixes * Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository * Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation 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 = * Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits * Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQ3GC7O2mc (the talks will hopefully follow soon) * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Campus Party * upcoming: FrOSCon * upcoming: WikiCon * announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.) * still looking for support for our SxSW panel: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710 = Open Tasks for You = * for possible coding tasks check https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=134818&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&query_format=advanced&component=WikidataClient&component=WikidataRepo&product=MediaWiki%20extensions * check the needs-input box on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata and see where you can give feedback Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
