Wikidata:Status updates/2012 06 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-08.

Development

• Updated demo system
• MediaWiki hackathon
• More bug squashing on Wikidata repo
• Refactored the Wikidata client code
• Cleaned up the Wikidata branch and prepared for the merge&review session with Tim Starling next week
• Worked on implementation of item aliases in the user interface
• Had a very useful discussion with a bot programmer that use our present API to get feedback and improve it
• Revised layout prototypes
• More infrastructure and getting our setup at labs reviewed by the super special experts at the Foundation
• Added extra unit tests and fixed all broken tests for all extension except the API tests
• Added extra interfaces for change notification and handling
• Investigated how to integrate the Wikidata sitelinks with existing languagelink and interwikilink functionality

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

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

Discussions/Press

• lots of discussions at the Wikidata/RENDER day and hackathon
  • summaries are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Berlin_summit_2012
  • some blog posts: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/31/wikidata-summit-kicks-off-in-berlin/, http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/search/label/Wikidata
  • some photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Berlin_2012
  • some videos: http://vimeo.com/user7709672/videos
• SemTechBiz: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/wikidata-excites-closing-panel-at-2012-semantic-tech-conference-semtech-015980.php

Events

see Events

• MediaWiki hackathon
• AdminConvention
• Berlin Open Data Day
• Wikidata intro and Q&A in Köln
• upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Dresden

Anything to add? Please share! :)