Wikidata/Status updates/2012 08 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-08-24.

Development

• Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/
• Updated demo system
• The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again
• Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column
• Started refactoring of selenium tests layout
• Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation
• Created abstract storage interface for the repository
• Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities
• Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends
• Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects
• The new API module for linking titles is live
• Launched a demo client site in Hebrew
• Various internationalization improvements and fixes
• Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository
• Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation

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

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

Discussions/Press

• Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits
• Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published (the talks will hopefully follow soon)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system

Events

see Events

• Campus Party
• upcoming: FrOSCon
• upcoming: WikiCon
• announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.)
• still looking for support for our SxSW panel

Open Tasks for You

• for possible coding tasks check this
• check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback

Anything to add? Please share! :)