Heya folks :) Here's your summary of the interesting things that happened around Wikidata this week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_15
= Development = * Design improvements to the SetClaim API module * More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax) that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia * More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia) * Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes: ** http://bugs.wikimedia.org/45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links ** http://bugs.wikimedia.org/44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces * Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling * Selenium tests for multiline references * Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client * Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox * Selenium tests for language-table * Implemented in-process caching for entities * Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules) * rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive) * Improved error reports from the API * Ground work for better edit summaries from the API * Added a table of content to item pages * Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia * Finished implementation of References-UI * Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript * Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information * Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation * Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI * More work on RDF export 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 = * When to autoconfirm users: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#10_edits_for_autoconfirmed * More property proposals: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Bibliothek und Information * 3rd Media Web Symposium * upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie * upcoming: SMWCon * Log of latest office hour on IRC: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-03-08 (in German) * We’ll be at the Amterdam Hackathon: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20 * Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/ * The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either: http://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q450675&action=history * Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3 http://file3.status.net/i/identica/wikidata-20130315T113320-s3l7v4r.jpeg * Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools#authority_control.js * We crossed item ID 7000000 * We now have over 4000 active editors \o/ * Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Statistics * Reasonator got a few more goodies: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=Q254 = Did you know? = * If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language * Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page = Open Tasks for You = * Help translate http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions * 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 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. 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