Wikidata:Status updates/2012 10 19
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-10-19.
Development edit
- Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
- Updated the demo system
- Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
- Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
- Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
- Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
- Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
- Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
- Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
- Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
- Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
- Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
- Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
- There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type
- Made site links table sortable
- Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet)
- Latest review status update here
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.
Discussions/Press edit
- Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
- en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-15/Technology report
- Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia
- Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
Events edit
see Events
- Wikimedia CEE meeting
- upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
- upcoming: SMWCon
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November
Open Tasks for You edit
- Help design the Main Page of Wikidata
- Hack on one of these
Anything to add? Please share! :)