Wikidata/Status updates/2013 02 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-02-01.

Development

• Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
• Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
• Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
• Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
• Working on property parser function for the client
• Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
• Resumed work on linked data interface
• References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
• Several minor user interface fixes
• Styling of the user interface for statements
• Selenium tests for references
• Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
• Worked on puppet

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

• Abuse filter guidelines
• Policy on properties
• First external tool for output in RDF: [4] and [5]
• Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)

Events

see Events

• We’ve set the date for the next office hours
• upcoming: FOSDEM

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
• Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.

Open Tasks for You

• Test statements on the demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
• Hack on one of these.

Anything to add? Please share! :)