Heya folks :) Here's the summary of what's been happening over the last week around Wikidata.
= Development = * Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39836 * Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface * Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript * Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory * Improvements to Diff extension * Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed * Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated) * Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this * Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant * Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges * Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them * Reviewed tons of JS code * Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon) * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de 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 You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org = Discussions/Press = * Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/ * Licenses and importing data http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/thread.html#1224 = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon * ISWC * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#language_switching_turned_off_for_anonymous_users * Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org 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
