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/extension…
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&am…
* Design the Main Page of Wikidata:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001104.html
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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