Heya folks :)
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-05-11.
You can find the wiki version of this at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_05_11
= Development =
* Finished second half of third scrum cycle:
** Implemented aliases handling
** Added various PHPUnit tests
** Implemented page move prevention
** Wrote test for site-link user interface
** Started implementing error handling for existing user interface
** Created WikibaseLib to hold common code of Wikibase and WikibaseClient
** Worked to make the client extension integrate better with the repo
** Unit testing for the client
** Fixed right-to-left bugs
** Debugging
** Documentation
** Internationalization, localization
** A lot of work on getting the demo system running - final polishing
and testing needed
** Published mockups for linking Wikipedia articles in the future for
feedback: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Storyboard_for_linking_Wikipe…
* Start of next scrum cycle. We’ll spend the next week on polishing,
documentation, bugfixing and so on.
* Started planning a few local Wikidata events for the German community
You can follow commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataClient…
and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataRepo.g…
(stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there)
= Discussions/Press =
* discussions about the mockups mentioned above in a lot of places
(discussion page on meta and German Wikipedia for example)
* blog post summarizing the first month:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/05/07/the-first-month-of-wikidata/
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* OKFN meetup
* upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
* upcoming: Linuxtag
If you have anything to add please share it.
Cheers
Lydia
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Dear Wikidata people,
I see that there is now a mess in names, and I don't see
where (or if) this has been discussed anywhere.
There is the "Wikidata extension" (on which the OmegaWiki dictionary is
based)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidatahttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata
[note: I am a developer of OmegaWiki]
and the "Wikidata project" , using the "Wikibase extension"
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibasehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
It would be nice if we could rename some of those to make it more
consistent...
Obviously, "Wikidata" is a wonderful name that everybody wants :-)
I am not opposed to changing the current "Wikidata extension" to something
else, if
this is possible. I am not sure whether it could be renamed to something
like "OmegaWiki extension", since it was not meant to be only used for
OmegaWiki,
but in practice, there is no other implementation of it.
Otherwise, any other name would be fine (Extension:WikiRelationalDB?),
but should probably be discussed with Erik (Moeller) who initiated the
project.
Concerning collaboration between the two projects,
I am not sure why the new-Wikidata is starting from scratch, and not from
the
old-Wikidata, but there are probably good reasons for that.
Would anybody know if, in the future, it would be possible to make OmegaWiki
use the new Wikidata instead of the old one? Or should they stay separate
projects?
Thanks,
Christophe
> Hi there!
Hi! :)
You sent your initial email to wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org. We're not
using that one. Please use wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org instead.
> I went ahead and used git to download the latest source code, however I didn't see any code related to wikidata?
Did you follow http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Setup
? You want to look for "Wikibase" as that is the name for the
extensions.
> I was looking at the items which needed to be completed and was interested in helping out with item #47:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle
> How do I go about helping out with this task?
John (CC'd) is working on that. He might be able to tell more.
> I was also looking at the list of bugs from here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi?tops=10&days=7
> Just wondering are these bugs for Wikidata or other wikipedia sites?
There are a lot of bugs in bugs.wikimedia.de related to Mediawiki and
its extensions. There is only one so far for Wikidata since we only
started at the beginning of the month.
> What is the difference between MediaWiki and Wikimedia?
MediaWiki is the software running the Wikipedias and many more
websites. Wikimedia is the movement around Wikipedia and its related
projects. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation.
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.
"Compile millions of links to old (but still copyrighted) works, with a countdown field (in days) until they enter in the public domain..."
Sounds a bit like:
"ARROW infrastructure allows streamlining the process of identification of authors, publishers and other rightholders of a work, including whether it is orphan, in or out of copyright or if it is still commercially available..."
http://www.arrow-net.eu/presenting-arrow-system
Michael
Heya folks :)
(sorry for the mail flood today...)
We've written down the criteria for when we consider an item in our
scrum cycle done. You can find them here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Definition_of_Done
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. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Heya folks :)
We've spent some time on writing down how we're going to do
development and review in git and gerrit. It's published here now:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Process
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. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
