Heya folks :)
Here is the Wikidata summary for the last week.
(Wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_21)
= Development =
* Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get
input for phase 2 of Wikidata
* Updated demo system
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de (the
corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018)
* Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts
* Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40069)
* Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated
when the connecting link got removed or changed)
* Windows support for pollForChanges-Script
* New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities
* Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work
* The API is generalized to handle additional entities
* Created initial DataType implementation
* Created store for the client
* Improved and extended store for the repository
* Started on initial DataValue implementation
* Wrote tests for client
* Fixed localization bugs
* Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field
* Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces
* Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an
entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model
* Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions
about the content model of the main namespace in several places
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow all commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
= Discussions/Press =
* Several questions/suggestions on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message
about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
* More additions to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Future and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_collaborators
* Deployment/code review discussions with the foundation
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Software Freedom Day
* upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE
* upcoming: Datengarten
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* We now have a Facebook and Google+ page!
https://www.facebook.com/Wikidata
https://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts
= Open Tasks for You =
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation
* Hack on all the tasks and bugs:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keyw…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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