[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #1

[JFC Morfin]

At 13:44 13/04/2012, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Heya folks :)
>
>I'll be doing weekly summaries of what's been happening around
>Wikidata. This is the first one. The plan is to collect them and then
>make a blog post out of them every month.

Lydia,
May be you could create and maintain 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/ as a menu 
page for all the monthly reports? This way we could quote and use it 
as a single permanent URL for the Status Reports.
Thank you and best
jfc

PS. As you can see: the way you entered that mail made it readable 
(with LF between the lines)?

>The wiki version of this can be found at
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_04_13
>
>= Development =
>* drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model
>* drafted http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/API
>* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development has useful infos
>for setting up a dev environment (but you probably want to wait a bit
>with that still until we've worked out some more quirks)
>* finished first scrum cycle:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Scrum_cycle_archive
>** implemented the data grid view which basically is an overview page
>for the data of one Wikidata item
>** implemented basic functionality for editing some of the information
>in data grid dynamically (item label and description) with a
>JavaScript generated user interface
>** lots of struggling with git
>** created proper base for Wikibase and Wikibase Client extensions,
>including things such as i18n files, settings files, and a skeleton
>for the API
>** created skeleton pages for the extensions on MediaWiki.org:
>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase and
>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client
>** WikibaseClient extension has its basic functionality implemented.
>Whenever a page is rendered, the extension loads the information about
>interlanguage links from the repository, sorts the links, and displays
>them.
>** WikibaseClient extension also defines a new magic word/parser
>function {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}}. It can disable fetching the links
>from the repository completely (when used on its own as
>{{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG}} or with asterisk as a parameter as
>{{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:*}}), or just remove the links for certain
>languages (for example {{NOEXTERNALINTERLANG:de|fr}} will remove the
>links to German and French). It remains possible to add new
>interlanguage links just like it is now and the new links will be
>sorted together with the external interlanguage links.
>* start of second scrum cycle:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_scrum_cycle
>
>You can follow commits at
>https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataClient.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD
>and 
>https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataRepo.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD
>(stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there)
>
>= Diskussions/Press =
>* Kurier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Wikidata
>(This will probably be archived soon. I will summarize and address the
>comments there in a blog post in the next days.)
>* The Atlantic:
>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikidata/255564/
>(please also read Denny's important comment there)
>* Signpost: 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-09/Wikidata
>
>= Events =
>* held first office hours on IRC (logs at
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours)
>* attended/presented at the Berlin Semantic Web meetup:
>http://www.meetup.com/The-Berlin-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/56299712/
>* upcoming: WWW2012: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
>
>= other stuff =
>* published team intro:
>http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/04/04/meet-the-wikidata-team/
>* published some basic assumptions and requirements:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Requirements
>* search for an initial logo:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate
>and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_logo_proposals
>(still have to get to promoting this and making this less painful)
>* volunteer page started: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Volunteers
>* collecting use-cases:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Queries and
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Infoboxes
>
>If you have anything to add please share it.
>
>
>Cheers
>Lydia
>
>PS: In case you have not seen it yet I'm posting daily updates on
>twitter and identi.ca (@wikidata).
>
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