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/Wikibase)+OR+(status:merged+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase),n,z
and view the ones awaiting review here:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z

= 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-werden-a-848904.html

= 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&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=134818&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&query_format=advanced&component=WikidataClient&component=WikidataRepo&product=MediaWiki%20extensions
* 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

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