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.
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You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.
Discussions/Press
editEvents
editsee Events
Other Noteworthy Stuff
edit- Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
- wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write [[d:Q2]] and link to item Q2 for example
- Database dumps are available
- New tools were added
- Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
- Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
- Great Wikidata artwork!
Open Tasks for You
edit- Hack on one of these
- Continue rocking!
Anything to add? Please share! :)