Heya folks :)
Here's what's been happening over the last week. (wiki version at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_14)
= Development = * Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less) * Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion * Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion * The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed * Wrote Selenium tests for client-code * Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again * Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields * Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should * Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review) * Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values * Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction * Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages * Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression) * Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc. * Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items * Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary * Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase/API#New_long_format)
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/extensions... and view the ones awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press = * Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta * Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* State of the Map * Health 2.0 Berlin meetup * upcoming: Software Freedom Day
= Open Tasks for You = * New stuff to hack on: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia