Wikidata:Status updates/2013 03 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-03-01.

Development edit

  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

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Events edit

see Events

Other Noteworthy Stuff edit

  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3

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