Heya folks :)
Here's the summary of what's been happening over the last week around Wikidata.
= Development = * Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39836 * Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface * Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript * Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory * Improvements to Diff extension * Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed * Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated) * Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this * Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant * Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges * Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them * Reviewed tons of JS code * Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon) * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
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/...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Discussions/Press = * Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/ * Licenses and importing data http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/thread.html#12...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon * ISWC * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#language_switching_turned... * Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant
= Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia