Heya folks :) Here's your summary on what's been happening in Wikidata land over the last 7 days. Fancy a wiki version of this? Check http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_31
= Development = * Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki incorporating feedback from wikitech and mediawiki.org, as well as updating the WIkibase code to match * Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata * Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data * Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for ltr-languages). * The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table * Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns * Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code * Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place * Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly “lastrevid” and “baserevid” * The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check if your bots are still working.) * The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full “ItemDisambiguation” page See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits here: 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 here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z = Discussions/Press = * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Campus Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5mWN8BooE) * FrOSCon * right now: WikiCon * upcoming: State of the Map * upcoming: office hours on IRC = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Please vote for our SXSW panel at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710. Voting ends today. = 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
