This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-09-21.

Development edit

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

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

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Discussions/Press edit

Several questions/suggestions on Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
More additions to Wikidata/Preventing unwanted edits, Wikidata/Notes/Future and Wikidata/Data collaborators
Deployment/code review discussions with the Foundation

Anything to add? Please share! :)