Heya folks :)
Here is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-08. The wiki
version is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_06_08
= Development =
* Updated demo system
* MediaWiki hackathon
* More bug squashing on Wikidata repo
* Refactored the Wikidata client code
* Cleaned up the Wikidata branch and prepared for the merge&review
session with Tim Starling next week
* Worked on implementation of item aliases in the user interface
* Had a very useful discussion with a bot programmer that use our
present API to get feedback and improve it
* Revised layout prototypes
* More infrastructure and getting our setup at labs reviewed by the
super special experts at the Foundation
* Added extra unit tests and fixed all broken tests for all extension
except the API tests
* Added extra interfaces for change notification and handling
* Investigated how to integrate the Wikidata sitelinks with existing
languagelink and interwikilink functionality
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 =
* lots of discussions at the Wikidata/RENDER day and hackathon
** summaries are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Berlin_summit_2012
** some blog posts:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/31/wikidata-summit-kicks-off-in-berlin/,
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/search/label/Wikidata
** some photos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Berlin_2012
** some videos:
http://vimeo.com/user7709672/videos
* SemTechBiz:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/wikidata-excites-closing-pan…
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* MediaWiki hackathon
* AdminConvention
* Berlin Open Data Day
* Wikidata intro and Q&A in Köln
* upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Dresden
Anything to add? Please share! :)
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