This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-10-12.
= Development = * Wikidata branch was merged \o/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27194/ (about 10.000 lines of code) This also means that MediaWiki now has shiny new ContentHandler features to enable storing data and other content types * Updated demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * Fixed MediaWiki core bugs and responded to feedback about the ContentHandler * Looked into Solr https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27190/ * Added statement interface for items * Added claim interface for entities * Added IRIValue and GeoCoordinateValue * Added GeoCoordinate parser * Added base for the ValueFormatters extension * Initial work on create claim API module * Initial work on better API transformation handling of the data model components * Made the API aware that entities, not items are the thingies we really want to get * Finished implementation of non-JavaScript edit buttons * Switched local integration server to use core master branch * Improved how recent changes from the repository are displayed in the client * Worked on tests for recent changes on the client * Added Wikipedia-compatible URL rewrites for subdomains en, de, hu and he (en.wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Helium leads to the item)
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/...
= Discussions/Press = * Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%... * Written a blog post looking back at August and September: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/10/08/looking-back-at-august-and-september-at-...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* KESW * upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html
= Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&... * Design the Main Page of Wikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia