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Wikidata weekly summary #30
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Launched wikidata.org \o/
- Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
- Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
- Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
- Added QUnit tests for DataValues
- Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
- Fix content handler and other related core bugs
- Generalized Autocomment
- Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
- First implementation of wbsearchentities
- More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
- All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
- Implemented templating system
- Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
- Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
- Discussions/Press
- “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
- Events
- SMWCon
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- upcoming: office hours on IRC
- upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
- upcoming: ISWC
- upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
- upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
- We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
- Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
- Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org
Sockpuppet
Hello. If you still remember the whole situation with the Zoophilia articles back in August, banned user User:Plateau99 is back with his sockpuppet User:MarkB40n.
Thanks, Someone963852 (talk) 20:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- I will look into this ASAP. I have been all sorts of busy --Guerillero | My Talk 04:46, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2012
- Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
- News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
- Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
- Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
- Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka
- WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
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Wikidata weekly summary #31
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
- Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
- Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
- Updated demo system
- Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
- Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
- Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
- Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
- Helped with testing of deployment branch
- Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
- Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
- Worked on Api.js refactoring
- Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
- Couple of minor fixes in the front end
- Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface
- Discussions/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
- wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write [[d:Q2]] and link to item Q2 for example
- Database dumps are available
- New tools were added
- Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
- Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
- Great Wikidata artwork!
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Continue rocking!
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The Signpost: 12 November 2012
- News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
- Featured content: The table has turned
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly
- WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
Until Monday
I have a philosophy paper on CS Lewis's depictions of hell in The Gear Divorce and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe due on Monday. I will be detained and won't be answering arbcom questions until it is turned in. Merci --Guerillero | My Talk 01:08, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #32
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
- Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
- Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
- Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
- Improvements to Diff extension
- Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
- Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
- Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this
- Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
- Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges
- Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
- Reviewed tons of JS code
- Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
- Updated demo system
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
- ISWC
- Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
- Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now
- Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 19 November 2012
- News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
- WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
- Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
- Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
- Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
Wikidata weekly summary #33
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Refactored and improved change propagation code
- Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
- Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits
- Pruning of changes table
- Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
- Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
- Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
- JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
- Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
- Improved entity selector widget
- Added Selenium tests for special pages
- Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
- Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
- Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly
- upcoming: SWIB
- foss.in
- local meetup in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has been added to wikistream
- We now have nearly 800 active users \o/
- We are still looking for partners for ourevent at 29C3. Any pointers?
- Open Tasks for You
- wikidata:Wikidata:Task forces and meta:Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
- Hack on one of these
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The Signpost: 26 November 2012
- News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
- Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
- Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
- Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries
- WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
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