Heya folks :) I'll be doing weekly summaries of what's been happening around Wikidata. This is the first one. The plan is to collect them and then make a blog post out of them every month. The wiki version of this can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_04_13 = Development = * drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model * drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/API * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development has useful infos for setting up a dev environment (but you probably want to wait a bit with that still until we've worked out some more quirks) * finished first scrum cycle: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Scrum_cycle_archive ** implemented the data grid view which basically is an overview page for the data of one Wikidata item ** implemented basic functionality for editing some of the information in data grid dynamically (item label and description) with a JavaScript generated user interface ** lots of struggling with git ** created proper base for Wikibase and Wikibase Client extensions, including things such as i18n files, settings files, and a skeleton for the API ** created skeleton pages for the extensions on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client ** WikibaseClient extension has its basic functionality implemented. Whenever a page is rendered, the extension loads the information about interlanguage links from the repository, sorts the links, and displays them. ** WikibaseClient extension also defines a new magic word/parser function {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}}. It can disable fetching the links from the repository completely (when used on its own as {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}} or with asterisk as a parameter as {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:*}}), or just remove the links for certain languages (for example {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:de|fr}} will remove the links to German and French). It remains possible to add new interlanguage links just like it is now and the new links will be sorted together with the external interlanguage links. * start of second scrum cycle: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle You can follow commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataClient… and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataRepo.g… (stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there) = Diskussions/Press = * Kurier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Wikidata (This will probably be archived soon. I will summarize and address the comments there in a blog post in the next days.) * The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wiki… (please also read Denny's important comment there) * Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-09/Wikida… = Events = * held first office hours on IRC (logs at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours) * attended/presented at the Berlin Semantic Web meetup: http://www.meetup.com/The-Berlin-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/56299712/ * upcoming: WWW2012: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events = other stuff = * published team intro: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/04/04/meet-the-wikidata-team/ * published some basic assumptions and requirements: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Requirements * search for an initial logo: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_logo_proposals (still have to get to promoting this and making this less painful) * volunteer page started: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers * collecting use-cases: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Queries and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Infoboxes If you have anything to add please share it. Cheers Lydia PS: In case you have not seen it yet I'm posting daily updates on twitter and identi.ca (@wikidata). -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l