Wikidata:Status updates/2012 11 30
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-12-12
Development
[edit]- 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
[edit]Events
[edit]see Events
- Linuxday
- Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
- SWIB
- foss.in
- upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
Other Noteworthy Stuff
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Hack on one of these
- Give the demo system a try
Anything to add? Please share! :)