Heya folks :)
Here is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-04-20. The wiki
version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_04_20
= Development =
* Finished second scrum cycle:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Scrum_cycle_archive
** Refactored/cleaned up a lot of the core Wikibase (extension) code
** Created derived storage tables and associated updating code
** Implemented several API modules
** Completed the implementation for the label and description editing
of the data view which can store a value using an api call now
** Started implementing the site link (language link) editing for the data view
** Investigated caching
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Caching_investigation)
** Sped up sorting of language links
** Fixed RTL bugs
** Work on setting up a demo system on labs (still needs more work)
* Start of third scrum cycle:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle
** This one will be 2 weeks instead of 1 week as the previous ones
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 =
*
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/04/19/wikidata-a-new-open-data-repository-for-the…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* keynote by Denny at Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces Workshop at
WWW2012 in Lyon (slides are on the Events page)
* upcoming: housewarming party at Wikimedia Deutschland’s new office
* upcoming: Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
* upcoming: SMWCon
= other stuff =
* Sam Reed from the Wikimedia Foundation joined the team this week to
discuss testing, deployment, code review and so on
* very first screenshot for those who don’t want to set up a system on
their own:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Very_first_Wikidata_screenshot.png
If you have anything to add please share it.
Cheers
Lydia
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