Wikidata/Status updates/2013 01 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-01-11.

Development

• Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
• Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
• Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
• Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
• Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:43814)
• Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
• Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (bugzilla:42064)
• Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
• Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
• Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
• Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
• Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
• Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
• Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
• Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
• Finished EntityDiff cleanup

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

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

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Discussions/Press

• Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
• Updates to time and space model
• Is there a need for bureaucrats?
• Planned improvement to the search field

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
• Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots

Open Tasks for You

• Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
• Hack on one of these

Anything to add? Please share! :)