Heya folks :)
I hope you all had a very enjoyable few days off. Here's your summary
of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version
is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_01_04
= Development =
* Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
* Extended tests for statements user interface
* Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak
types than PropertyValueSnak
* Layout improvements in the user interface
* Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
* Updated Vagrant for Wikidata:
https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant
* More work on AbuseFilter
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42064
* Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to
wikidata.org
and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a…)
* Fix for bug 43595
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43595) which was seen
on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of
MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
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 =
* Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that
need feedback:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-January/001529.html
* Bureaucrat support requirements:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat_support_r…
* Defining administrators:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_adminis…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* 29C3
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2000000
* You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that
makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an
existing item:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-SitelinkCheck
= Open Tasks for You =
* Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
* Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in
light of the upcoming deployment):
http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessageGroupStats&x=D&…
* Hack on one of these:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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