Wikidata:Status updates/2012 10 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-10-12.

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)

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

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

Discussions/Press

• Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2
• Written a blog post looking back at August and September

Events

see 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

Anything to add? Please share! :)