Wikidata:Status updates/2012 09 14
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-09-14.
Development
[edit]- Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less)
- Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
- The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed
- Wrote Selenium tests for client-code
- Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again
- Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields
- Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should
- Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review)
- Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values
- Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
- Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages
- Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression)
- Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc.
- Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items
- Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary
- Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages
- Updated demo system
- The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive
See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.
You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.
Discussions/Press
[edit]- Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta
- Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata
Events
[edit]see Events
- State of the Map
- Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
- upcoming: Software Freedom Day
Open Tasks for You
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Anything to add? Please share! :)