Wikidata:Status updates/2012 04 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-04-20.

Development

• Finished second scrum cycle: Scrum cycle archive
  • Refactored/cleaned up a lot of the core Wikibase (extension) code
  • Created derived storage tables and associated updating code
  • Implemented several API modules
  • Completed the implementation for the label and description editing of the data view which can store a value using an api call now
  • Started implementing the site link (language link) editing for the data view
  • Investigated caching
  • Sped up sorting of language links
  • Fixed RTL bugs
  • Work on setting up a demo system on labs (still needs more work)
• Start of third scrum cycle: Current scrum cycle
  • This one will be 2 weeks instead of 1 week as the previous ones

You can follow commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataClient.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikidataRepo.git;a=shortlog;h=HEAD (stuff not merged into master yet isn't included there)

Discussions/Press

• guest post for OKFN

Events

see Events

• keynote by Denny at Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces Workshop at WWW2012 in Lyon (slides are on the Events page)
• upcoming: housewarming party at Wikimedia Deutschland’s new office
• upcoming: Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
• upcoming: SMWCon

Other Stuff

• Sam Reed from the Wikimedia Foundation joined the team this week to discuss testing, deployment, code review and so on
• very first screenshot for those who don’t want to set up a system on their own:

File:Very first Wikidata screenshot.png

If you have anything to add please share it.