Hey folks :)
Here is your fresh serving of Wikidata news for the week before 2012-08-17. The wiki version is here if you prefer that: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_17
= Development = * Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system http://wikidata-test-client.wikimedia.de/wiki/Special:Version Let us know if any important ones are missing. * Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected * The history and recent changes show useable comments now * The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension * Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext. * Improved internationalization messages * Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more * Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment * Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues * Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items. * Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions... and view the ones awaiting review here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press = * Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia * Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/design-und-daten-wikipedia-soll-schoener-...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* upcoming: Campus Party * upcoming: FrOSCon * We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg We’ll be making stickers and stuff next.
= Open Tasks for You = * If you want to code check https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo... * Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet. * Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia