Heya folks :)
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-15
You can find the wiki version at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_06_15
= Development =
* Reorganized the three git repos for our extensions into one. (This
made us very happy and will cause fewer tears in the future. ;-))
* Added title normalization
* Edits in the repo now have a comment added in the history entry
* Sent proposal about interwiki table in MediaWiki core:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-June/061069.html
* Finalized implementation of user interface for editing and adding aliases
* Started review of Wikidata branch with Tim Starling
* Untangled Wikibase Libs from Wikibase Repo code (removed cross-dependencies)
* Refactored ItemView
* Launched 20% code review session
* Revised the storyboards for linking between Wikipedias
* Checked what is left that absolutely needs to be finished before the
demo at Wikimania
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits
(
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28%28status:merged+project:mediawiki/ex…)
and view the subset awaiting review
(
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+%28project:mediawiki/extensi…).
= Discussions/Press =
*
http://blog.slub-dresden.de/beitrag/2012/06/14/wikipedianer-in-der-slub-heu…
*
http://semanticweb.com/schema-org-wikidata-google-knowledge-graph-two-great…
*
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/die-krise-der-wikipedia/6726588.html
*
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/12/the-second-month-of-wikidata/
*
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
* Wikitopcs and SMW on the mailing list
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikidata intro in Dresden
* upcoming: Wikidata & Global Open Data: a roundtable discussion
= other stuff =
* We are looking for a logo and already got quite a few awesome
submissions
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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