Heya folks :)
Here's what's been happening over the last week. As always the wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_10_19
= Development = * Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation * Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de * Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML: http://wikidata-docs.wikimedia.de/htmlvalidation/ * Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers * Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers * Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript * Fixed diff view for entities other than Items * Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements * Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib * Improved code for Recent Changes on the client * Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr * Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis * Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages * There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type * Made site links table sortable * Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet) * Latest review status update: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063924.html
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/extensions... and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press = * Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-15/Technol... * Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001106.html * Should JS/CSS pages be parsed? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063909.html
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikimedia CEE meeting * upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome * upcoming: SMWCon
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours
= Open Tasks for You = * Help design the Main Page of Wikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia