Wikidata:Status updates/2012 07 20
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-07-20.
Development[edit]
- work on client caching of link data
- add/edit links on client (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37633)
- code review
- bug squashing
- highlighting the editing context when editing
- simple language switcher (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36424)
- set up Selenium integration for Jenkins testserver to have our tests run regularly automatically
- disabled editing actions when editing context is open (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38176)
- start designing grid layout for phase 2
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
Discussions/Press[edit]
- lots of good press from Wikimania
- deployment plan and discussions with the Hungarian Wikipedia community about them being the first to use Wikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-July/061702.html
- podcast of Conny and Lydia talking about Wikipedia and Wikidata (in German) http://c3d2.de/news/pentacast-44-wikidata.html
Events[edit]
see Events
- Wikimania
- Wikidata intro and Q&A at the New York Times, NYC
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A at Unperfekthaus, Essen
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A at Open Source Treffen, München
- office hours (logs for the English one on Thursday - German one will be on Monday)
other noteworthy stuff[edit]
- logo is being finalized
- demo system has been updated
- started to collect future use-cases of Wikidata that should be kept in mind during initial development
Anything to add? Please share! :)