Heya folks
Just sharing some awesome news with you: The Wikidata branch has been
merged. This includes somewhere around 10.000 line changes and is a
huge step towards getting Wikidata deployed.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27194/
We'll have some cake tomorrow to celebrate :D
Cheers
Lydia
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Hi,
I wanted to make sure that the English and the Hebrew demo sites have
the same version. I can see the precise Git version of MediaWiki in
Special:Version, as well as the versions of most extensions. But the
versions of the Wikibase* extensions only appear as "Version 0.2
alpha" without the Git checkout number. Would it be possible to show
the number there, to let everybody know the precise version?
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Hi,
An issue brought up in the discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew
Wikipedia: To remove a link, you just click the "remove" link... and
that's it. Looks too easy. No asking for confirmation or anything. Is
it a good idea?
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Hey,
In this commit [0] I moved the content model constants back to the repo
after they somehow found their way into lib. At the point the constants got
moved to lib, the requirements for the settings loosened slightly, so they
increase again now, and can potentially cause breakage. The change in
requirements is that the repo settings (esp those using the content model
constants) are placed after repo instead of after lib in LocalSettings.
[0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/26651/
Cheers
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Hey,
The DataType code that recently got merged into Wikibase now enforces
properties to have a DataType. Calling getProperty or toArray on a Property
without a DataType will get your an exception. This means that if you
created properties before the new code got introduced they will now be
invalid.
Cheers
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Hey i just wanted to ask if there is currently a limitation of data items
on the demo systems?
Or am I able to run my bot without caring on server issues.
Sk!d
Hi,
Geekiness warning: this email mentions software in general and free
software licenses in particular. It mentions them because it's a
useful example, but the ideas can be applied to many other domains.
Automatic generation of list articles is frequently named as one of
the main use cases of Wikidata. There is, however, a particular type
of list articles for which Wikidata may be even more useful:
Comparison articles. You can find many examples of these at
Category:Software comparisons in the English Wikipedia.
It can be used for comparing cars, athletes, political candidates and
many other things. I frequently use such articles to help myself
choose software that I will use. Here's what I do today to search for
software, and what I would love to see supported better using
Wikidata:
* I always prefer to try Free Software first. Today I usually go to
such an article, sort the table by the license column, and then start
comparing features that are important to me.
* Very often the different groups of features appear in different
tables, so I have to scroll up and down a lot.
* Very often I quickly narrow down my search to a small number of
products, but there's no easy way to remove the products that I
decided not to use from the view, so again I have to scroll up and
down a lot.
Doing the above using a query would be very useful. I would be able to
quickly eliminate rows (products) and columns (features) that don't
interest me.
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Heya folks :)
Here's the Wikidata summary for the last week. The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_28
= Development =
* Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/
* Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You
can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items
this applies for the combination of label and description.)
* Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
* Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
* Added resource module for loading site information
* Improved change handling on the client, including when items are
deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the
client’s recent changes (still rough)
* New “List all datatypes” Special page
* Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
* Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to
entities and item to entity
* Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit
token from action=tokens instead)
* Some cleanup for the security audit
* Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from
EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
* Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
* Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
* Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being
reviewed by WMF (current review status:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-September/063508.html)
* Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and
visible online: http://wikidata-docs.wikimedia.de/testcoverage/
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…
= Discussions/Press =
* JSON for phase 2:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Phase_2_JSON
* Concept for entity selection widget:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Entity_selection_widget…
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
* Datengarten
* upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
* upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
* upcoming: Data Days
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event
we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well
in advance please so it reaches you in time.
* We have a shiny new contribute page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute
= Open Tasks for You =
* Help update the press page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Press
* Pick one of the open coding tasks here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywords…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Heya folks :)
We've updated the demo system again. We're getting into phase 2
territory now but that's not very visible yet. What you can give a try
however is that changes on the repository should now show up in the
recent changes of the client.
The git tag is fb4f3e9af2e43b0035b05fcf8ad88c887bfc95d8.
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
Cheers
Lydia
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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.