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/extension…
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&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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