Heya folks :)
Here's your summary on what's been happening in Wikidata land over the
last 7 days.
Fancy a wiki version of this? Check
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_31
= Development =
* Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki
incorporating feedback from wikitech and
mediawiki.org, as well as
updating the WIkibase code to match
* Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata
* Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data
* Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for
user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for
ltr-languages).
* The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table
* Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns
* Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code
* Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place
* Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly
“lastrevid” and “baserevid”
* The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check
if your bots are still working.)
* The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full
“ItemDisambiguation” page
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits here:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review here:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
= Discussions/Press =
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Campus Party (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5mWN8BooE)
* FrOSCon
* right now: WikiCon
* upcoming: State of the Map
* upcoming: office hours on IRC
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Please vote for our SXSW panel at
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710. Voting ends today.
= Open Tasks for You =
* for possible coding tasks check
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keyw…
* check the needs-input box on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
and see where you can give feedback
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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