Heya folks :)
Here's what we've been working on over the last week. (Wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_07)
= Development = * Anja Jentzsch joins the team (http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/09/05/anja-jentzsch-joins-the-wikidata-team/) * Worked on sorting for site-links table on item pages; enhanced some code in MediaWiki core for that * Fixed issue with aliases breaking grid layout of item pages * Worked on fixing issues for right-to-left languages in site-links user interface * Worked on new SpecialPage to create new items * Two new fancy Special pages appeared: ItemDisambiguation (lets you search for all items that have a given label or alias) and ItemByTitle (gives you the ID of the item that is connected to a given Wikipedia page) * Gave an introduction on Selenium testing to the team * Added Selenium tests for undelete & conflicts on undeletion * Added Selenium HowTo to meta wiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Testing#Selenium_tests) * Part of the team participated in the Wikimedia bug-triage on Wednesday (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage) * Final preparations to move site code into MediaWiki core * Preliminary work on data value implementations * Additional work on edit conflicts and permissions * Updates to the input json form to wbsetitem * Fixing some issues with failing site-links * More than 50 aliases in one language for an item should now work (previously more than 50 failed in an ugly way due to an API limit) * Updated http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/ and http://wikidata-test-client.wikimedia.de
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 subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press = * Wikidata and ISO standards
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* WikiCon * office hours (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-09-06 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-09-05) * ongoing: State of the Map * upcoming: Health 2.0 Berlin meetup * upcoming: Software Freedom Day Hamburg
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We have a list of Wikidata team members on Twitter if you want to follow them: https://twitter.com/#!/wikidata/initial-development-team
= Open Tasks for You = * Test the demo system (http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de) * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo...
(Ping me if you’re looking for something else.)
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia