Heya folks :)
Here's your summary of the last week around Wikidata, delivered to you from India for a change.
= Development = * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * Refactored and improved change propagation code * Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue * Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits * Pruning of changes table * Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant * Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs * Worked on making statements editable in the frontend * JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now * Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system * Improved entity selector widget * Added Selenium tests for special pages * Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
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/...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Discussions/Press = * http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly * upcoming: SWIB * foss.in * local meetup in Bangalore
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Wikidata has been added to wikistream: http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/#wiki=wikidata.wikipedia * We now have nearly 800 active users \o/ * We are still looking for partners for https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Mass_collaboration Any pointers?
= Open Tasks for You = * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata
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