This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-09-14.

Development edit

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

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.

Discussions/Press edit

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

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