User:Leszek Manicki (WMDE)/WMDE Engineering

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RSS Feed Twitter Wikidata  RSS Feed Twitter Wikidata  Technical Wishlist News In 2013 und 2015 we asked editors about their technical wishes in a survery. The top 20 wishes of both years were reviewed by our developer team in November 2015. Here is a short status of the wishes:
 * The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
 * The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
 * Input needed on caching for the query service
 * Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
 * We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
 * Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
 * More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
 * Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
 * wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator

Examples Done: Examples Doing: Examples To Do:  Planning & Reporting Introduction to our yearly planning process, goals and activites:
 * Possibility to watch categories
 * A language and project extending watch list for all Wikimedia Wikis.
 * Automatic deletion of article on watch list after a chosen time (WMDE wishlist)
 * Cross-wiki-notifications (international wishlist)
 * A better solution for editing conflicts

Goal 1a: Grow reach of Wikidata into the Wikimedia project
Wikidata’s first and foremost function is to provide a structured data backbone for the Wikimedia projects. Despite all the interest from entities external to the movement, in 2016 WMDE Software Development will continue to put a strong focus on making Wikidata even more meaningful, useful and utilized by Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects. Our strategy here lies in continued development of the project’s usability and in offering useful features. These features are aimed at making contributions to the Wikimedia projects easier and the process of editing an amazing and rewarding experience. To be continued here.

We plan quartely and adjust activities accordingly.  Git commits rss feed from https://planet.wikimedia.de/atom.php  Mailing Lists  Events Upcoming events: March/April:  Source Code Berlin Podcast & Tech Talks Source Code Berlin looks into creativity and innovation in fields related to open source technology in Berlin in form of bi-weekly podcast, events and tech videos.
 * Reporting: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bw-M9tuZtd8INDg4a0tidE1vNDA
 * Wikidata Q1 2015
 * Wikidata Q2 2015
 * wikidata mailing list : https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
 * wikidata technical mailing : https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
 * MediaWiki Hackathon in Jerusalem 31. March to 03 of April 2016

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