Wikidata:Status updates/2012 08 31

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-08-31.

Development

• Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki incorporating feedback from wikitech and mediawiki.org, as well as updating the WIkibase code to match
• Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata
• Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data
• Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for ltr-languages).
• The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table
• Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns
• Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code
• Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place
• Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly “lastrevid” and “baserevid”
• The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check if your bots are still working.)
• The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full “ItemDisambiguation” page

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 about unwanted edits

Events

see Events

• Campus Party (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5mWN8BooE)
• FrOSCon
• right now: WikiCon
• upcoming: State of the Map
• upcoming: office hours on IRC

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Please vote for our SXSW panel at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710. Voting ends today.

Open Tasks for You

• for possible coding tasks check this
• check the needs-input box Wikidata|here and see where you can give feedback

Anything to add? Please share! :)