Heya folks :)
Here's your favorite weekly summary of all the good stuff that happened around Wikidata during the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_01
= Development = * Extended diff view to include references now * Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view * Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData * Updated the demo system http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/ * More work towards using Solr for our search * More investigation and fixes of search issues * Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior * Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar * Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript * A lot of bug fixing
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/...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikipedia Day NYC * upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2013-03-07 * upcoming: office hour (German)
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6 * Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type. * Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties * The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs). * The list of available properties is growing: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal * Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=Q1339 * Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bene*/Items_by_cat * A few more additions to http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements * We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
= Open Tasks for You = * Help bring the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6 * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata
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