Heya folks :)
Here is the Wikidata summary for the last week. (Wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_21)
= Development = * Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 of Wikidata * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de (the corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018) * Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts * Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40069) * Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated when the connecting link got removed or changed) * Windows support for pollForChanges-Script * New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities * Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work * The API is generalized to handle additional entities * Created initial DataType implementation * Created store for the client * Improved and extended store for the repository * Started on initial DataValue implementation * Wrote tests for client * Fixed localization bugs * Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field * Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces * Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model * Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions about the content model of the main namespace in several places
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next.
You can follow all 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/...
= Discussions/Press = * Several questions/suggestions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects * More additions to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Future and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_collaborators * Deployment/code review discussions with the foundation
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Software Freedom Day * upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE * upcoming: Datengarten
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We now have a Facebook and Google+ page! https://www.facebook.com/Wikidata https://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts
= Open Tasks for You = * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation * Hack on all the tasks and bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywo...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia