Wikidata:Status updates/2012 10 12
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-10-12.
Development
edit- 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.
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Discussions/Press
edit- Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2
- Written a blog post looking back at August and September
Events
editsee Events
- KESW
- upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
Other Noteworthy Stuff
edit- We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata
Open Tasks for You
edit- Hack on one of these
- Design the Main Page of Wikidata
Anything to add? Please share! :)