Wikidata:Status updates/2014 01 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-01-10.

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  • Adrian Lang joins the team
  • Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handling of special characters for example
  • Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
  • No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
  • More performance improvement work
  • Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
  • Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
  • Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
  • Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
  • Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
  • Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
  • Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
  • Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store

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

You can view the commits currently in review here and the ones that have been merged here.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

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