Wikidata:Status updates/2012 11 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-11-16.

Development edit

  • Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
  • Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
  • Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
  • Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
  • Improvements to Diff extension
  • Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
  • Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
  • Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this
  • Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
  • Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges
  • Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
  • Reviewed tons of JS code
  • Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
  • Updated demo system

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 edit

Events edit

see Events

  • Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
  • ISWC
  • Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
  • Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna

Other Noteworthy Stuff edit

Open Tasks for You edit


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