THIS EXTENSION IS OBSOLETE!
It has been replaced by core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/extension…
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&keyw…
* 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
add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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