Heya folks :) Here's your weekly summary of all the good stuff happening around Wikidata.
= 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 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/Wikibase)+OR+(status:merged+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase),n,z and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org = Discussions/Press = * Behaviour on null edits http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/001291.html = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Linuxday * Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly * SWIB * foss.in * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Chart of item creation progress: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_item_creation_progress.png * Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-November/001323.html * Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikidata/analyses/latest/languages_summary * You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite https://twitter.com/njh/status/272325944184811520 and it shows up in the RDF https://twitter.com/njh/status/272355916819599361 = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=161719 * Give the demo system a try http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers from India Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
