Heya folks :)
Here's your short summary of what happened around Wikidata this week.
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_04_19
= Development =
* Dispatch lag (
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats) is
now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias
in watchlists and recent changes
*
wikidata.org now always redirects to
www.wikidata.org. This should
among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit
when on
wikidata.org
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45005)
* Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45140)
* Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and
architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase
and gave useful tips for improvements
* Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
* Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
* Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
* Work on the storage code for answering queries
You can view the commits currently in review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibas…
and the ones that have been merged at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibas…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
[
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
here]
= Events (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events) / Press =
* GLAM-WIKI 2013
* upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
* upcoming: Opensource Treffen
* upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
= Discussion =
* RfC about references and sources:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/References_and_s…
* RfC about local oversighters:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_oversig…
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned
for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
* Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have
been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time
search has been made case-insensitive. More details at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Qualifiers.2C_bug_fixes.…
*
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
* Cool task force page:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Video_games_task_force
* List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the
wiki text:
http://bots.wmflabs.org/~addshore/addbot/index.php
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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