Wikidata/Status updates/2013 02 22
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-02-22.
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Development [edit]
- Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
- Updated demo system
- Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
- Implemented first version of a string data type
- Worked on better error reporting from the API
- Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
- Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
- Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
- Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
- Worked on cleanup of local entity store
- Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
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 [edit]
- Wikidata development will continue in 2013
- Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
- RFC about the Wikidata API
- Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at d:Wikidata:Property proposal
- RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
- Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
Events [edit]
see Events
- office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
- upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
Other Noteworthy Stuff [edit]
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
- Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
- Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
- “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
- List of most used properties
- OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
- Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
- We’ve hit d:Q5000000
- Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
Open Tasks for You [edit]
- Hack on one of these
- Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia
Anything to add? Please share! :)
