Wikidata:Status updates/2012 11 02
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-11-02.
Development edit
- Launched wikidata.org \o/
- Updated Wikidata/Notes/Change propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias)
- Updated the demo system
- Tagged a 0.1 release
- Added QUnit tests for DataValues
- Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
- Fix content handler and other related core bugs
- Generalized Autocomment
- Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
- First implementation of wbsearchentities
- More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
- All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
- Implemented templating system
- Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
- Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
Discussions/Press edit
- “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: spiegel.de and heise.de
Events edit
see Events
- SMWCon
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- upcoming: office hours on IRC
- upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
- upcoming: ISWC
- upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
- We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
- Task forces
- Requests for permissions
- SlurpInterwiki script
- Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
Open Tasks for You edit
- Give feedback on change propagation
- Hack on one of these
Anything to add? Please share! :)