Heya folks :)
Here is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-04-20. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_04_20
= Development = * Finished second scrum cycle: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Scrum_cycle_archive ** Refactored/cleaned up a lot of the core Wikibase (extension) code ** Created derived storage tables and associated updating code ** Implemented several API modules ** Completed the implementation for the label and description editing of the data view which can store a value using an api call now ** Started implementing the site link (language link) editing for the data view ** Investigated caching (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Caching_investigation) ** Sped up sorting of language links ** Fixed RTL bugs ** Work on setting up a demo system on labs (still needs more work) * Start of third scrum cycle: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle ** This one will be 2 weeks instead of 1 week as the previous ones
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.gi... (stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there)
= Discussions/Press = * http://blog.okfn.org/2012/04/19/wikidata-a-new-open-data-repository-for-the-...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* keynote by Denny at Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces Workshop at WWW2012 in Lyon (slides are on the Events page) * upcoming: housewarming party at Wikimedia Deutschland’s new office * upcoming: Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly * upcoming: SMWCon
= other stuff = * Sam Reed from the Wikimedia Foundation joined the team this week to discuss testing, deployment, code review and so on * very first screenshot for those who don’t want to set up a system on their own: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Very_first_Wikidata_screenshot.png
If you have anything to add please share it.
Cheers Lydia