Wikidata:Status updates/2012 12 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-12-14.

Development

• Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
• Updated demo system
• http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
• Statements (think of “population: 2,000,000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
• It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
• Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
• No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
• Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
• Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
• Removed many singletons to reduce global state
• Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
• Improved settings system
• Improved options of ValueFormatters
• Improved options of ValueParsers
• Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
• Fixed serialization of SiteArray
• ~=[,,_,,]:3
• Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
• Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
• Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
• Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
• Moved the demo system to a larger server
• Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
• Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
• A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)

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

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

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Discussions/Press

• “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“

Events

see Events

• WhereCamp
• Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
• upcoming: 29C3
• upcoming: Office hours

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• More pretty Wikidata artwork

Open Tasks for You

• Want to help Lydia write the next weekly summary? Let her know.
• Hack on one of these

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