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Wikidata weekly summary #30
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 19:17, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Launched wikidata.org \o/
 * Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
 * Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
 * Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
 * Added QUnit tests for DataValues
 * Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
 * Fix content handler and other related core bugs
 * Generalized Autocomment
 * Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
 * First implementation of wbsearchentities
 * More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
 * All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
 * Implemented templating system
 * Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
 * Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
 * Discussions/Press
 * “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
 * Events
 * SMWCon
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * upcoming: office hours on IRC
 * upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
 * upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
 * We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
 * http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
 * Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
 * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org

Wikidata weekly summary #31
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
 * Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
 * Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Updated demo system
 * Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
 * Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
 * Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
 * Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
 * Helped with testing of deployment branch
 * Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
 * Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
 * Worked on Api.js refactoring
 * Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
 * Couple of minor fixes in the front end
 * Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface


 * Discussions/Press
 * Flow of data between Wikidata repo and Wikipedias
 * Nice front page article in the latest edition of Linux User and Developer


 * Events
 * office hours (logs here and here)
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
 * upcoming: ISWC
 * upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
 * wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write Q2 and link to item Q2 for example
 * Database dumps are available
 * New tools were added
 * Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
 * Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
 * Great Wikidata artwork!

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 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Continue rocking!

Wikidata weekly summary #32
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
 * Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
 * Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
 * Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
 * Improvements to Diff extension
 * Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
 * Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
 * Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this
 * Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
 * Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges
 * Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
 * Reviewed tons of JS code
 * Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
 * Updated demo system
 * Discussions/Press
 * Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world
 * Licenses and importing data
 * Events
 * Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
 * ISWC
 * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
 * Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now
 * Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #33
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 09:07, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Refactored and improved change propagation code
 * Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
 * Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits
 * Pruning of changes table
 * Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
 * Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
 * Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
 * JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
 * Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
 * Improved entity selector widget
 * Added Selenium tests for special pages
 * Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
 * Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
 * Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
 * Discussions/Press
 * http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer
 * Events
 * upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly
 * upcoming: SWIB
 * foss.in
 * local meetup in Bangalore
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata has been added to wikistream
 * We now have nearly 800 active users \o/
 * We are still looking for partners for ourevent at 29C3. Any pointers?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * wikidata:Wikidata:Task forces and Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #34
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 08:27, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
 * Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
 * Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
 * Better recent changes comments on the client
 * Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
 * The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
 * The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
 * Added a number of profiler calls
 * Special:Contributions displays labels now
 * User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
 * Statements can be created and saved now
 * Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
 * Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
 * Improved entity selector widget
 * Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
 * Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
 * Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
 * Some PHPUnit test fixes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Behaviour on null edits
 * Events
 * Linuxday
 * Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
 * SWIB
 * foss.in
 * upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Chart of item creation progress
 * Demo system will be unavailable shortly next week
 * Code-base is now nearly 100 000 lines
 * You can now look up Wikidata identifiers on dbpedia lite and it shows up in the RDF
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Give the demo system a try

Wikidata weekly summary #35
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
 * Added wbsetqualifier API module
 * Added wbremovequalifiers API module
 * New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
 * Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
 * Selenium tests now independent from ULS
 * Selenium tests for statements UI
 * Existing statements can be edited now
 * Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
 * Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
 * Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
 * Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
 * Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
 * Improvements in templating engine
 * Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
 * Set up a fresh dev server for testing
 * Discussions/Press
 * Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
 * “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
 * Disallowing links to locked wikis
 * Sourcing of every statement
 * Events
 * Foss.in
 * Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
 * WhereCamp Berlin
 * Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
 * Announced next office hours
 * Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
 * New admin notice board
 * “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
 * “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
 * Code on one of these
 * Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute

Wikidata weekly summary #36
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 14:52, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
 * Updated demo system
 * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
 * Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
 * It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
 * Links are now protocol-relative (42534)
 * No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
 * Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
 * Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
 * Removed many singletons to reduce global state
 * Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
 * Improved settings system
 * Improved options of ValueFormatters
 * Improved options of ValueParsers
 * Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
 * Fixed serialization of SiteArray
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
 * Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
 * Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
 * Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
 * Moved the demo system to a larger server
 * Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
 * Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
 * A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
 * Discussions/Press
 * “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
 * Events
 * WhereCamp
 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
 * upcoming: Office hours
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * More pretty Wikidata artwork
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Want to help Lydia write the next weekly summary? Let her know.
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #37
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * Deployed fix for 42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
 * Updated demo system
 * Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
 * Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
 * Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
 * Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
 * Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
 * Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
 * Bug fixes in the client
 * Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
 * Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
 * Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
 * Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
 * Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
 * Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
 * Discussions/Press
 * Representing values 1 2 (including a prototype to try out the current state of discussions)
 * "Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One"
 * Events
 * Office hours (logs for English and German)
 * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
 * upcoming: 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Announced the expected date for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Wikidata has been added to the Wikimedia stats site
 * Video of the Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2012 is online now
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give input to the representing values discussion
 * Hack on one of these

Have a great holiday season!

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Wikidata weekly summary #38
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.'' <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 19:53, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
 * Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
 * Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
 * Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
 * Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
 * Discussions/Press
 * Ranking of Items
 * Events
 * right now: 29C3
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #39
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:43, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
 * Extended tests for statements user interface
 * Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
 * Layout improvements in the user interface
 * Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
 * Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
 * More work on AbuseFilter
 * Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
 * Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
 * Discussions/Press
 * Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
 * Bureaucrat support requirements
 * Defining administrators
 * Events
 * 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
 * You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
 * Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #40
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 16:28, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
 * Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (43828)
 * Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (42954)
 * Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (43301)
 * Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (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 (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 (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
 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #41
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:59, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
 * We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
 * Refactored sites code to improve design
 * Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
 * Added lots of new Selenium tests
 * Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
 * Implemented new change dispatcher script
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
 * Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
 * Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
 * Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
 * Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
 * Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
 * Discussions/Press
 * Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
 * Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
 * RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
 * Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
 * There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org
 * Community Portal got a rework
 * Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #42
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:00, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Improved design of sites code in core
 * Fixed SQLite compatibility
 * Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
 * Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
 * Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
 * Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
 * Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
 * More work on wikibase.getEntities function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
 * AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
 * The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
 * Initial implementation of parser function for the client
 * Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
 * Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
 * Discussions/Press
 * VIAF
 * Events
 * InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 * Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reconfirmation of temporary admins
 * Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
 * Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
 * Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
 * Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #43
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:31, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * 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
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #44
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 16:15, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
 * Hack on one of these

Wikidata weekly summary #45
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 * Development
 * Deployment to English Wikipedia
 * Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
 * Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
 * Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
 * Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
 * Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
 * Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
 * Started with valueview refactoring
 * Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
 * Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
 * Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
 * Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
 * Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
 * More work on Lua-based templates for entities
 * Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
 * Created query object
 * Proper bot-flagging of edits (44857)
 * Use of ID to directly address an item or property
 * Search should give more of the complete matches now
 * Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
 * More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
 * Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
 * Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
 * Discussions/Press
 * List of currently existing properties
 * Proposals for new properties
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
 * Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
 * New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
 * Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
 * Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
 * Ability to add items to claims by their ID
 * Better handling of deleted properties
 * More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
 * We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
 * Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
 * Check out a well-done item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
 * Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Hack on one these

Wikidata weekly summary #46
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
 * Development
 * 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
 * Discussions/Press
 * 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
 * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
 * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 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 Q5000000
 * Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Hack on one of these
 * Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
 * Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

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