THIS EXTENSION IS OBSOLETE!
It has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.16.0).
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight
On 17.08.2012 06:50, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
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
-- Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
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