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Wikidata weekly summary #32
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- 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
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- 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 meta:Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #34
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- Events
- Linuxday
- Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
- SWIB
- foss.in
- upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Give the demo system a try
Wikidata weekly summary #35
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- 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
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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 (bugzilla: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
- Events
- WhereCamp
- Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
- upcoming: 29C3
- upcoming: Office hours
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #37
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla: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
- Events
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Give input to the representing values discussion
- Hack on one of these
Have a great holiday season!