Wikidata/Status updates/2012 08 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-08-03.

Development

• Refactored API tests
• Worked on undo for items
• Worked on Wikidata JS Library proposal
• Improved communication with WMF (weekly reports to wikitech-l now about blocking issues and so on)
• Published reworked storyboard for linking between Wikipedia articles
• Attempted to make DOM on item pages nicer
• Worked towards making the STTLanguage extension ready for deployment
• Refactored Wikibase client code
• Deployed new version of the test system
• Code review
• Bug fixes

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

You can follow our commits and view the subset awaiting review.

Discussions/Press

• Licensing
• Improving volunteer involvement

Events

see Events

If you’re in Berlin and want to go to Campus Party to see Daniel talk about Wikidata and Lydia about getting involved in Free Software there are some tickets you can win.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Worked on making it easier for volunteers to get involved and contacted many on Wikidata/Volunteers (more to follow)
• Started on-wiki newsletter so you can get Wikidata news delivered to your talk page
• Reworked Wikidata page

Open Tasks for You

• Help update the translations of the Wikidata page
• Give feedback on the storyboard for linking Wikipedia articles and the UI layout concept for phase 2

Anything to add? Please share! :)