Wikidata:Status updates/2012 06 08
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-08.
Development
[edit]- Updated demo system
- MediaWiki hackathon
- More bug squashing on Wikidata repo
- Refactored the Wikidata client code
- Cleaned up the Wikidata branch and prepared for the merge&review session with Tim Starling next week
- Worked on implementation of item aliases in the user interface
- Had a very useful discussion with a bot programmer that use our present API to get feedback and improve it
- Revised layout prototypes
- More infrastructure and getting our setup at labs reviewed by the super special experts at the Foundation
- Added extra unit tests and fixed all broken tests for all extension except the API tests
- Added extra interfaces for change notification and handling
- Investigated how to integrate the Wikidata sitelinks with existing languagelink and interwikilink functionality
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.
Discussions/Press
[edit]- lots of discussions at the Wikidata/RENDER day and hackathon
- summaries are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Berlin_summit_2012
- some blog posts: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/31/wikidata-summit-kicks-off-in-berlin/, http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/search/label/Wikidata
- some photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Berlin_2012
- some videos: http://vimeo.com/user7709672/videos
- SemTechBiz: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/wikidata-excites-closing-panel-at-2012-semantic-tech-conference-semtech-015980.php
Events
[edit]see Events
- MediaWiki hackathon
- AdminConvention
- Berlin Open Data Day
- Wikidata intro and Q&A in Köln
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Dresden
Anything to add? Please share! :)