Heya folks :)
Here's your summary of the last week around Wikidata, delivered to you
from India for a change.
= Development =
* Updated demo system
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/
* Refactored and improved change propagation code
* Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
* Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to
show/hide Wikidata edits
* Pruning of changes table
* Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
* Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
* Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
* JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
* Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
* Improved entity selector widget
* Added Selenium tests for special pages
* Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
* Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
* Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
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…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
= Discussions/Press =
*
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly
* upcoming: SWIB
* foss.in
* local meetup in Bangalore
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Wikidata has been added to wikistream:
http://wikistream.inkdroid.org/#wiki=wikidata.wikipedia
* We now have nearly 800 active users \o/
* We are still looking for partners for
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Mass_collaboration Any
pointers?
= Open Tasks for You =
*
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting
point
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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