Heya folks :)
Here's your weekly summary of all the good stuff happening around Wikidata.
= Development =
* Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the
repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
* Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
* Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
* Better recent changes comments on the client
* Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
* The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but
has still a few glitches
* The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the
data is not replicated anymore
* Added a number of profiler calls
* Special:Contributions displays labels now
* User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
* Statements can be created and saved now
* Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
* Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
* Improved entity selector widget
* Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
* Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
* Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
* Some PHPUnit test fixes
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/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
= Discussions/Press =
* Behaviour on null edits
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/001291.html
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Linuxday
* Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
* SWIB
* foss.in
* upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Chart of item creation progress:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_item_creation_progress.png
* Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/001323.html
* Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikidata/analyses/latest/languages_summary
* You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite
https://twitter.com/njh/status/272325944184811520 and it shows up in
the RDF
https://twitter.com/njh/status/272355916819599361
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
* Give the demo system a try
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers from India
Lydia
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