Heya folks :) Here's your weekly summary of all the good stuff that happens around Wikidata. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_08
= Development = * More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata * Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including: ** don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (http://bugs.wikimedia.org/45037) ** use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (http://bugs.wikimedia.org/44536) ** preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (http://bugs.wikimedia.org/44973) * Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality * More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias * Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine * Created initial QueryStore interface * Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore * Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore * Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings * Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia * Improved handling of deleted properties * Further work on replacement for current search box * More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API * Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (https://bugs.wikimedia.org/41586) 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 = * Hacker News noticed we exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5328472 * RFC about opting out of global sysops or not: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Opting_out_of_Global_sysops (more RFCs at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment) * Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today) = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * WMF Metrics and Activities meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2013-03-07 (recording is linked there) * office hour in German * upcoming: Bibliothek & Information * upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/ http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/06/wikidata-now-live-on-all-wikipedias/ * Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Phase_1_live_on_all_remaining_Wikipedias_and_bugfixes.2Fnew_feature_here * How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia? http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/How-will-the-Wikidata-1-project-impact-Wikipedia * More useful database reports: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports (more are being requested on the discussion page) * Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties) and more are being proposed (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal) * Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Usability_Testing_on_wikidata.org * New user scripts at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools = Did you know? = * Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email * Wikidata is also on Twitter (https://twitter.com/wikidata), identi.ca (https://identi.ca/wikidata), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Wikidata) and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts) * There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode = Open Tasks for You = * 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=162515 * Continue being awesome Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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