Heya folks :)
Here's your update on what's hot in and around Wikidata for the week before 2012-08-24. Fancy a wiki version? Here you go: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_24
= Development = * Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-August/000979.html https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again * Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/UI_Layout_Concept#Phase_...) * Started refactoring of selenium tests layout * Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation * Created abstract storage interface for the repository * Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities * Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622 * Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects * The new API module for linking titles is live * Launched a demo client site in Hebrew: http://wikidata-test-client-he.wikimedia.de/ * Various internationalization improvements and fixes * Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository * Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation
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 = * Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits * Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQ3GC7O2mc (the talks will hopefully follow soon) * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Campus Party * upcoming: FrOSCon * upcoming: WikiCon * announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.) * still looking for support for our SxSW panel: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710
= Open Tasks for You = * for possible coding tasks check https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo... * check the needs-input box on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata and see where you can give feedback
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia