Heya folks :) Here's your summary of the last week around Wikidata, delivered to you from India for a change.
= Development = * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * Refactored and improved change propagation code * Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue * Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits * Pruning of changes table * Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant * Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs * Worked on making statements editable in the frontend * JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now * Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system * Improved entity selector widget * Added Selenium tests for special pages * Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore 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 = * http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly * upcoming: SWIB * foss.in * local meetup in Bangalore = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Wikidata has been added to wikistream: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/#wiki=wikidata.wikipedia * We now have nearly 800 active users \o/ * We are still looking for partners for https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Mass_collaboration Any pointers? = Open Tasks for You = * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=161719 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
