Wikidata:Status updates/2012 08 17

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-08-17.

Development[edit]

  • Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system. Let us know if any important ones are missing.
  • Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected
  • The history and recent changes show useable comments now
  • The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension
  • Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext.
  • Improved internationalization messages
  • Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more
  • Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment
  • Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues
  • Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items.
  • Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata

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]

  • Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia
  • Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular. Like this one

Events[edit]

see Events

  • upcoming: Campus Party
  • upcoming: FrOSCon
  • We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us.

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

  • Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: with and without text. We’ll be making stickers and stuff next.

Open Tasks for You[edit]

  • If you want to code, check this
  • Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet.
  • Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net


Anything to add? Please share! :)