Wikidata/Status updates/2012 07 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-07-20.

Development

• work on client caching of link data
• add/edit links on client (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37633)
• code review
• bug squashing
• highlighting the editing context when editing
• simple language switcher (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36424)
• set up Selenium integration for Jenkins testserver to have our tests run regularly automatically
• disabled editing actions when editing context is open (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38176)
• start designing grid layout for phase 2

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

Discussions/Press

• lots of good press from Wikimania
• deployment plan and discussions with the Hungarian Wikipedia community about them being the first to use Wikidata: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-July/061702.html
• podcast of Conny and Lydia talking about Wikipedia and Wikidata (in German) http://c3d2.de/news/pentacast-44-wikidata.html

Events

see Events

• Wikimania
• Wikidata intro and Q&A at the New York Times, NYC
• upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A at Unperfekthaus, Essen
• upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A at Open Source Treffen, München
• office hours (logs for the English one on Thursday - German one will be on Monday)

other noteworthy stuff

• logo is being finalized
• demo system has been updated
• started to collect future use-cases of Wikidata that should be kept in mind during initial development

Anything to add? Please share! :)