Heya folks :)
Here's what's been happening over the last week. (wiki version at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_14)
= Development = * Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less) * Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion * Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion * The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed * Wrote Selenium tests for client-code * Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again * Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields * Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should * Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review) * Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values * Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction * Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages * Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression) * Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc. * Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items * Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary * Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase/API#New_long_format)
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 ones awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press = * Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta * Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* State of the Map * Health 2.0 Berlin meetup * upcoming: Software Freedom Day
= Open Tasks for You = * New stuff to hack on: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
Hi Lydia - could you elaborate about this item in your excellent report!.....
* Added "Type" entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
I'm particularly keen to know how this facility relates to fielding application-level ontologies. thanks - john
On 14.09.2012 07:40, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
Heya folks :)
Here's what's been
happening over the last week. (wiki version at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_14)
= Development =
- Made new CreateItem special-page (also working
JavaScript-less)
- Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and
awesome autocompletion
- Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and
awesome autocompletion
- The client-wiki now gets notified if a
connecting Sitelink gets removed
- Wrote Selenium tests for
client-code
- Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to
the page again
- Removed auto-expansion for description/label input
fields
- Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works
as it should
- Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase
and moved it
as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review)
Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values
- Added "Type" entity type, plus skeletons for its associated
Content,
ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages
Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression)
- Wrote
permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem,
undo/restore, etc.
- Fixed display of deleted revisions of data
items
- Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to
show
change summary
- Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left
languages
- Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/
The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API
module is now alive
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase/API#New_long_format)
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 ones awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
= Discussions/Press =
- Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia
projects via Global
Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback
on Meta
- Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around
Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
= Events
=
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
- State of
the Map
- Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
- upcoming: Software Freedom
Day
= Open Tasks for You =
- New stuff to hack on:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
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On 14.09.2012 20:04, jmcclure@hypergrove.com wrote:
I'm particularly keen to know how this facility relates to fielding application-level ontologies. thanks - john
It doesn't, this is only about pre-defined "primitive" data types like "Number" or "Translated String" or, slightly more complex, "Geo-coordinate".
The original implementation was discarded, the current draft is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Data_values_and_types
Once we have full support for free-form properties in Wikidata, we expect something like a "Folksonomy" to emerge, but since we don't plan to enforce any constraint based on a class system or similar, a true ontology in the RDFS/OWL sense is unlikely to appear. We hope however that the relations and properties we collect about items will be useful in building such an ontology in other systems.
-- daniel