Wikidata:Status updates/2012 11 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-11-09.

Development edit

  • Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
  • Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
  • Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Updated demo system
  • Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
  • Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
  • Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
  • Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
  • Helped with testing of deployment branch
  • Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
  • Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
  • Worked on Api.js refactoring
  • Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
  • Couple of minor fixes in the front end
  • Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface

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

Events edit

see Events

  • office hours (logs here and here)
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
  • upcoming: ISWC
  • upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
  • upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna

Other Noteworthy Stuff edit

Open Tasks for You edit

  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue rocking!


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