Heya folks :)
Here's your short summary of what happened around Wikidata this week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_04_19
= Development = * Dispatch lag (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats) is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes * wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45005) * Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45140) * Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements * Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims * Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time * Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients * Work on the storage code for answering queries
You can view the commits currently in review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase... and the ones that have been merged at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&... here]
= Events (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events) / Press = * GLAM-WIKI 2013 * upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources * upcoming: Opensource Treffen * upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
= Discussion = * RfC about references and sources: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/References_and_so... * RfC about local oversighters: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_oversigh...
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24. * Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Qualifiers.2C_bug_fixes.2... * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten * Cool task force page: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Video_games_task_force * List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~addshore/addbot/index.php
= Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata
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