Wikidata:Status updates/2012 05 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-05-04.

Development

• Wikibase repo and client are now translatable on translatewiki
• moved a lot of the sprint items to bugzilla
• Finished second half of third scrum cycle:
  • Wrote Selenium tests in Ruby following the proposal by the WMF descibed on http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/60452
  • Implemented preventing moving of pages in Data namespace
  • Created special pages to resolve items by site+page and language+label
  • Lots of debugging
  • Added some help texts, localization, permissions and documentation
  • Finished to implement the site links user interface (for interwiki links)
  • Started work on Storyboards for linking Wikipedia articles to Wikidata https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36435
• Start of fourth scrum cycle: 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)

Discussions/Press

• Wikidata may support what Wikipedia does not know

Events

see Events

• SMWCon (video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWpjZg4f5I)
• Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
• re:publica
• IRC office hours (logs at Wikidata/Events#past IRC office hours
• upcoming: Open Knowledge meetup Berlin

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