Wikidata:Status updates/2013 01 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-01-04.

Development

• Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
• Extended tests for statements user interface
• Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
• Layout improvements in the user interface
• Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
• Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
• More work on AbuseFilter
• Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
• Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!

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

• Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
• Bureaucrat support requirements
• Defining administrators

Events

see Events

• 29C3

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
• You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item

Open Tasks for You

• Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
• Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
• Hack on one of these

Anything to add? Please share! :)