Heya folks :)
Here's the summary of what's been happening over the last week around Wikidata.
= Development =
* Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so
you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39836
* Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
* Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
* Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
* Improvements to Diff extension
* Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
* Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
* Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue
factory using this
* Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
* Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting
them in the client’s RecentChanges
* Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
* Reviewed tons of JS code
* Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
* Updated demo system
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
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/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
= Discussions/Press =
* Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/
* Licenses and importing data
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/thread.html#1…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
* ISWC
* Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
* Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of
caching issues for now
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#language_switching_turne…
* Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking
easily
https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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