Wikidata:Status updates/2013 03 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-03-15.

Development

• Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
• More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
• More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
• Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
  • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
  • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
• Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
• Selenium tests for multiline references
• Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
• Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
• Selenium tests for language-table
• Implemented in-process caching for entities
• Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
• rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
• Improved error reports from the API
• Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
• Added a table of content to item pages
• Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
• Finished implementation of References-UI
• Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
• Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
• Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
• Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
• More work on RDF export

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

You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Discussions/Press

• When to autoconfirm users
• More property proposals

Events

see Events

• Bibliothek und Information
• 3rd Media Web Symposium
• upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
• upcoming: SMWCon
• Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
• We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
• Lua roll-out! You'll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: 1, 2.
• The new pope didn't go unnoticed on Wikidata either
• Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
• Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
• We crossed item ID 7000000
• We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
• Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
• Reasonator got a few more goodies

Did you know?

• If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
• Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page

Open Tasks for You

• Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
• Hack on one of these

Anything to add? Please share! :)