Heya folks :)

Here's this week's summary of what happened around Wikidata. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_10_26

= Development = * Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites * Prefix term search for entities * Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge * API function wbsearchentities * Discussed JavaScript refactoring * Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling) * Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API * Implemented entity selector jQuery widget * Continued deployment work with WMF * Poked at Vagrant * Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances * New release of Pywikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-October/001134.html

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 = * Discussions around bots on the mailing list

= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events

* Bootstrapping Awesome * SMWCon

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Jenkins test results are now online: https://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/job/Ext-Wikibase/ (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm) * Nice video about the why and how of Open Data: http://vimeo.com/21711338

= Open Tasks for You = * Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia