Wikidata:Status updates/2012 11 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-12-12

Development

• Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
• Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
• Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
• Better recent changes comments on the client
• Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
• The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
• The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
• Added a number of profiler calls
• Special:Contributions displays labels now
• User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
• Statements can be created and saved now
• Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
• Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
• Improved entity selector widget
• Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
• Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
• Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
• Some PHPUnit test fixes

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

• Behaviour on null edits

Events

see Events

• Linuxday
• Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
• SWIB
• foss.in
• upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Chart of item creation progress
• Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
• Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
• You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite and it shows up in the RDF

Open Tasks for You

• Hack on one of these
• Give the demo system a try

Anything to add? Please share! :)