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Wikidata weekly summary #18
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Reset, undo, reverts and other cool things are working now (not on demo yet unfortunately)
- Edit is now disabled if item should not be editable (e.g. in diff view)
- Decided on how to solve messed up DOM structure of items around the page header
- Decided on how to proceed with JS-API
- All of the test coverage for Diff extension
- Extended test setup on local test machine
- Discussions/Press
- Deployment (Italian Wikipedia community is discussing becoming the second to use Wikidata)
- Export to RDF
- Signpost coverage of
- Events
- upcoming: Campus Party (If you want a ticket let Lydia know. She might be able to get you one.)
- Lydia will give a keynote at FrOSCon
- Denny will give a keynote at SMWCon
- Open Tasks for You
- We added new stuff here if you want to hack
- Give feedback on the layout concepts for phase 2
Wikidata weekly summary #19
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system. Let us know if any important ones are missing.
- Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected
- The history and recent changes show useable comments now
- The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension
- Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext.
- Improved internationalization messages
- Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more
- Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment
- Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues
- Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items.
- Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata
- Discussions/Press
- Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia
- Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular. Like this one
- Events
- upcoming: Campus Party
- upcoming: FrOSCon
- We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- If you want to code, check this
- Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet.
- Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net
Wikidata weekly summary #20
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/
- Updated demo system
- The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again
- Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column
- Started refactoring of selenium tests layout
- Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation
- Created abstract storage interface for the repository
- Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities
- Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends
- Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects
- The new API module for linking titles is live
- Launched a demo client site in Hebrew
- Various internationalization improvements and fixes
- Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository
- Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation
- Discussions/Press
- Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits
- Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published (the talks will hopefully follow soon)
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
- Events
- Campus Party
- upcoming: FrOSCon
- upcoming: WikiCon
- announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.)
- still looking for support for our SxSW panel
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #21
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- Discussions/Press
- Discussion about unwanted edits
- Events
- Campus Party (video)
- FrOSCon
- right now: WikiCon
- upcoming: State of the Map
- upcoming: office hours on IRC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please vote for our SXSW panel. Voting ends today.
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #22
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Anja Jentzsch joins the team
- Worked on sorting for site-links table on item pages; enhanced some code in MediaWiki core for that
- Fixed issue with aliases breaking grid layout of item pages
- Worked on fixing issues for right-to-left languages in site-links user interface
- Worked on new SpecialPage to create new items
- Two new fancy Special pages appeared: ItemDisambiguation (lets you search for all items that have a given label or alias) and ItemByTitle (gives you the ID of the item that is connected to a given Wikipedia page)
- Gave an introduction on Selenium testing to the team
- Added Selenium tests for undelete & conflicts on undeletion
- Added Selenium HowTo to meta wiki
- Part of the team participated in the bug-triage on Wednesday
- Final preparations to move site code into MediaWiki core
- Preliminary work on data value implementations
- Additional work on edit conflicts and permissions
- Updates to the input json form to wbsetitem
- Fixing some issues with failing site-links
- More than 50 aliases in one language for an item should now work (previously more than 50 failed in an ugly way due to an API limit)
- Updated demo repo and client
- Discussions/Press
- Wikidata and ISO standards
- Events
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have a list of Wikidata team members on Twitter if you want to follow them
- Open Tasks for You
- Test the demo system
- Hack on one of these
- (Ping Lydia if you’re looking for something else.)
Wikidata weekly summary #23
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less)
- Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed
- Wrote Selenium tests for client-code
- Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again
- Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields
- Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should
- Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review)
- Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values
- Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
- Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages
- Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression)
- Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc.
- Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items
- Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary
- Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages
- Updated demo system
- The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive
- Discussions/Press
- Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta
- Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata
- Events
- State of the Map
- Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
- upcoming: Software Freedom Day
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #24
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 of Wikidata
- Updated demo system (the corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018)
- Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts
- Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word
- Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated when the connecting link got removed or changed)
- Windows support for pollForChanges-Script
- New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities
- Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work
- The API is generalized to handle additional entities
- Created initial DataType implementation
- Created store for the client
- Improved and extended store for the repository
- Started on initial DataValue implementation
- Wrote tests for client
- Fixed localization bugs
- Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field
- Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces
- Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model
- Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions about the content model of the main namespace in several places
- Discussions/Press
- Several questions/suggestions on m:Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
- More additions to m:Wikidata/Preventing unwanted edits, m:Wikidata/Notes/Future and m:Wikidata/Data collaborators
- Deployment/code review discussions with the Foundation
- Events
- Software Freedom Day
- upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE
- upcoming: Datengarten
- Open Tasks for You
- m:Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation
- Hack on all the tasks and bugs
Wikidata weekly summary #25
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items this applies for the combination of label and description.)
- Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
- Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
- Added resource module for loading site information
- Improved change handling on the client, including when items are deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the client’s recent changes (still rough)
- New "List all datatypes" Special page
- Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
- Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to entities and item to entity
- Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit token from action=tokens instead)
- Some cleanup for the security audit
- Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
- Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
- Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
- Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being reviewed by WMF (current review status)
- Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and visible online
- Discussions/Press
- JSON for phase 2
- Concept for entity selection widget
- Events
- Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
- Datengarten
- upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
- upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
- upcoming: Data Days
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well in advance please so it reaches you in time.
- We have a shiny new contribute page
- Open Tasks for You
- Help update the press page
- Pick one of the open coding tasks
Wikidata weekly summary #26
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Added various new DataValue classes
- Worked on ‘edit’ buttons for non-JavaScript version of entity views
- Worked on resourceloader module for sites
- Tests for PropertyView and CreateProperty
- Tests for Uniqueness of Properties & Items
- Tests for propagation of Item deletion/undeletion to client wiki
- Tests for change propagation to Watchlists on client wiki
- HTML validation results for Wikibase are now online
- Special:CreateProperty is renamed to Special:NewProperty, to avoid naming conflicts in translatewiki with other extensions
- Work on scripts for rebuilding and resetting data stores in the client
- The client now handles when an item gets deleted on the repository
- Wrote fixes for security concerns raised during review by WMF
- Working on Wikidata branch in preparation of merging it into core/master soon.
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
- Open Source Meetup Berlin
- Data Days
- upcoming: KESW (keynote by Markus Krötzsch)
- upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First 6 months of Wikidata are over!
- Great pictures and videos taken at the MediaWiki Hackathon in Berlin earlier this year
- You can follow all Wikidata bug reports by subscribing to the Wikidata bugs mailinglist
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Test some of the less common things you do on Wikipedia on the test repository and report bugs if you find anything that’s not working as it should
Wikidata weekly summary #27
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Wikidata branch was merged \o/ (about 10.000 lines of code) This also means that MediaWiki now has shiny new ContentHandler features to enable storing data and other content types
- Updated demo system
- Fixed MediaWiki core bugs and responded to feedback about the ContentHandler
- Looked into Solr
- Added statement interface for items
- Added claim interface for entities
- Added IRIValue and GeoCoordinateValue
- Added GeoCoordinate parser
- Added base for the ValueFormatters extension
- Initial work on create claim API module
- Initial work on better API transformation handling of the data model components
- Made the API aware that entities, not items are the thingies we really want to get
- Finished implementation of non-JavaScript edit buttons
- Switched local integration server to use core master branch
- Improved how recent changes from the repository are displayed in the client
- Worked on tests for recent changes on the client
- Added Wikipedia-compatible URL rewrites for subdomains en, de, hu and he (en.wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Helium leads to the item)
- Discussions/Press
- about being deployment target number 2
- Written a blog post looking back at August and September
- Events
- KESW
- upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Design the Main Page of Wikidata
Wikidata weekly summary #28
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
- Updated the demo system
- Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
- Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
- Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
- Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
- Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
- Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
- Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
- Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
- Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
- Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
- Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
- There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type
- Made site links table sortable
- Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet)
- Latest review status update here
- Discussions/Press
- Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
- Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia
- Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
- Events
- Wikimedia CEE meeting
- upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
- upcoming: SMWCon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November
- Open Tasks for You
- Help design the Main Page of Wikidata
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #29
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
- Prefix term search for entities
- Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
- API function wbsearchentities
- Discussed JavaScript refactoring
- Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
- Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
- Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
- Continued deployment work with WMF
- Poked at Vagrant
- Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
- New release of Pywikidata
- Discussions/Press
- Discussions around bots on the mailing list
- Events
- Bootstrapping Awesome
- SMWCon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
- Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
- Open Tasks for You
- Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #30
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Launched wikidata.org \o/
- Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
- Updated the demo system: https://web.archive.org/web/20130513050417/http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/
- Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
- Added QUnit tests for DataValues
- Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
- Fix content handler and other related core bugs
- Generalized Autocomment
- Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
- First implementation of wbsearchentities
- More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
- All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
- Implemented templating system
- Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
- Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
- Discussions/Press
- “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
- Events
- SMWCon
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- upcoming: office hours on IRC
- upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
- upcoming: ISWC
- upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
- We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: https://web.archive.org/web/20170125123804/http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
- Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
- Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org
Wikidata weekly summary #31
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
- Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
- Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
- Updated demo system
- Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
- Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
- Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
- Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
- Helped with testing of deployment branch
- Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
- Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
- Worked on Api.js refactoring
- Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
- Couple of minor fixes in the front end
- Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface
- Discussions/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
- wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write [[d:Q2]] and link to item Q2 for example
- Database dumps are available
- New tools were added
- Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
- Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
- Great Wikidata artwork!
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Continue rocking!
Wikidata weekly summary #32
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
- 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
- Discussions/Press
- 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
- Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #33
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- 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
- Discussions/Press
- 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
- We now have nearly 800 active users \o/
- We are still looking for partners for ourevent at 29C3. Any pointers?
- Open Tasks for You
- wikidata:Wikidata:Task forces and meta:Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #34
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
- Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
- Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
- Better recent changes comments on the client
- Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
- The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
- The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
- Added a number of profiler calls
- Special:Contributions displays labels now
- User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
- Statements can be created and saved now
- Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
- Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
- Improved entity selector widget
- Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
- Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
- Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
- Some PHPUnit test fixes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Linuxday
- Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
- SWIB
- foss.in
- upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Give the demo system a try
Wikidata weekly summary #35
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
- Added wbsetqualifier API module
- Added wbremovequalifiers API module
- New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
- Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
- Selenium tests now independent from ULS
- Selenium tests for statements UI
- Existing statements can be edited now
- Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
- Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
- Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
- Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
- Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
- Improvements in templating engine
- Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
- Set up a fresh dev server for testing
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Foss.in
- Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- WhereCamp Berlin
- Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
- Announced next office hours
- Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
- New admin notice board
- “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
- “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
- Code on one of these
- Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute
Wikidata weekly summary #36
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
- Updated demo system
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
- Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
- It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
- Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
- No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
- Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
- Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
- Removed many singletons to reduce global state
- Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
- Improved settings system
- Improved options of ValueFormatters
- Improved options of ValueParsers
- Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
- Fixed serialization of SiteArray
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
- Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
- Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
- Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
- Moved the demo system to a larger server
- Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
- Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
- A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- WhereCamp
- Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
- upcoming: 29C3
- upcoming: Office hours
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #37
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla:42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
- Updated demo system
- Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
- Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
- Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
- Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
- Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
- Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
- Bug fixes in the client
- Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
- Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
- Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
- Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
- Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
- Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Give input to the representing values discussion
- Hack on one of these
Have a great holiday season!
Wikidata weekly summary #38
[bewerken]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.
- Development
- Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
- Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
- Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
- Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
- Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- right now: 29C3
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Bron
[bewerken]- Wikidata, "Wikidata weekly 2012", 2012
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