This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-29.

Development edit

Had a short one week sprint
Differences between revisions of items are being displayed now. It is not exactly pretty, but it works.
Many changes in the underlying code that will lead to a number of features to be seen after next week’s sprint, preparing for our demo at Wikimania in two weeks
Started Sprint #8, another one week sprint -- and picked up a crazy amount of items
Sitelinks are now verified doing a call to the according Wikipedia. Normalized article name is then displayed in the sitelinks UI.
It is now possible to enter links to articles which do not appear on the suggestions list. Verification is then done by the API.

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

Discussions/Press edit

Denny investigated the current interwiki link state and what impact Wikidata’s first phase can have: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-June/000776.html

Code4Lib meetup
report about Wikidata to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's conference http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.45/2012/Bergmann_Schuengel_DESTATIS.pdf
right now: Wikipedia Academy
upcoming: Wikipedia meetup New York City

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