Heya folks :)
Here’s your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week.
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29
= Development =
* The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their
articles:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/
(If you want to see it in action see the infobox at
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino)
* Worked on automatic summaries for statements
* Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their
label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of
{{#property:p169}} for example
* Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See
details further down.)
* Selenium tests for qualifiers
* Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
* Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists
in the UI (qualifiers, references)
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
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&am…
= Discussions/Press =
* Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries Feedback
welcome.
* Proposal for a vandalism policy:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Vandalism
* Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a
discussion on the best way to use them:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sources (You can see an
example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry
number” on
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153)
* Should Wikidata have featured items?
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Featured_Items
* RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some
users:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Restrict_creatio…
* Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11
Wikipedias:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Datenfundus-Wikidata-geht-…
* Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and
archeologists:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/28/die-digitalen-romer-wikidata-trifft-arc…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Newline 2013
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the
deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a
few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English
Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after
that.
* Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are
leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on
other cool things. You’ll be missed!
* Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to
Wiri:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/
* We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show
up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an
analysis:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-March/001940.html
* We started running a script on the database in order to make search
on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days
and then search should be more useful.
* In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that
suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot
easier for you.
* We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but
there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s
unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without
spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the
progress at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44228
* Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and
account age 4 days:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46461
* Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for
example?
http://toolserver.org/~legoktm/cgi-bin/wikidata/copypaste.py
is for you
* The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for
Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects
for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC At least 2 other organisations that
applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know
which organisations are accepted.
* Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata:
http://simia.net/treeoflife/
* Wikidata was added to wikipulse
http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/
* A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8478926
= Did you know? =
* If you need to merge two items
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Merge explains how
= Open Tasks for You =
* See note at the end of this weekly summary
* Help test qualifiers
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer#Qualifiers
- see also example statements there) on
http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki so we can roll it out with
the next release
* Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for
you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for
filing it btw!)
* Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list
* Hack on one of these:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other
projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can
spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out
what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let
me know for example on this discussion page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29
? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please
post them.
Cheers
Lydia
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