Wikidata:Status updates/2013 03 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-03-08.

Development

• More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
• Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
  • don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
  • use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
  • preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
• Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
• More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
• Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
• Created initial QueryStore interface
• Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
• Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
• Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
• Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
• Improved handling of deleted properties
• Further work on replacement for current search box
• More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
• Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)

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

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Discussions/Press

• Hacker News noticed we exist
• RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
• Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)

Events

see Events

• WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
• office hour in German
• upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
• upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We're now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
• Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
• How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
• More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
• Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
• Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
• New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools

Did you know?

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Open Tasks for You

• Hack on one of these
• Continue being awesome

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