Heya folks :)
Here's your short and sweet summary of the important things that happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_15
= Development = * Deployment to English Wikipedia: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/ * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min) * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak) * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks) * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user) * Started with valueview refactoring * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field * More work on Lua-based templates for entities * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need * Created query object * Proper bot-flagging of edits (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44857) * Use of ID to directly address an item or property * Search should give more of the complete matches now * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
See [[Wikidata/Development/Current sprint|current sprint items]] for what we’re working on next.
You can follow {{wdchanges|our commits}} and view the subset {{wdreview|awaiting review}}.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Discussions/Press = * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC. * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include: ** Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty) ** Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none) ** Ability to add items to claims by their ID ** Better handling of deleted properties ** More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively. * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon) * Check out a well-done item: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159
= Open Tasks for You = * Help expand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata * Help expand and translate http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions * Hack on one 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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