Heya folks :)
Here's the quick version of what happened around Wikidata over the
last week. The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_01_18
= Development =
* We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia:
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/14/first-steps-of-wikidata-in-the-hungari…
\o/
* We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be
working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an
existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the
first two stories here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Storyboard_for_linking_…)
* Refactored sites code to improve design
* Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
* Added lots of new Selenium tests
* Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
* Implemented new change dispatcher script
* ~=[,,_,,]:3
* Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
* Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
* Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in
extension WikibaseSolr
* Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
* Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine:
https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant
* Improved the setup via puppet on Labs (
http://labsconsole.wikimedia.org)
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/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 =
* Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-January/001596.html
* Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Requests_for_permissions#Schedule
* RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata_interwiki_RFC
* Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-01-14/Techno…
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoy…
* There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Wikidata
* Deployed new code on
wikidata.org
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#new_code_deployed
* Community Portal got a rework:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Community_portal
* Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult
than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on
resolving the remaining ones.
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#dropped_the_.22www.22_in…
= Open Tasks for You =
*
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage needs some love
and attention
* 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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