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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