Wikidata:Status updates/2012 09 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-09-07.

Development

• Anja Jentzsch joins the team
• Worked on sorting for site-links table on item pages; enhanced some code in MediaWiki core for that
• Fixed issue with aliases breaking grid layout of item pages
• Worked on fixing issues for right-to-left languages in site-links user interface
• Worked on new SpecialPage to create new items
• Two new fancy Special pages appeared: ItemDisambiguation (lets you search for all items that have a given label or alias) and ItemByTitle (gives you the ID of the item that is connected to a given Wikipedia page)
• Gave an introduction on Selenium testing to the team
• Added Selenium tests for undelete & conflicts on undeletion
• Added Selenium HowTo to meta wiki
• Part of the team participated in the bug-triage on Wednesday
• Final preparations to move site code into MediaWiki core
• Preliminary work on data value implementations
• Additional work on edit conflicts and permissions
• Updates to the input json form to wbsetitem
• Fixing some issues with failing site-links
• More than 50 aliases in one language for an item should now work (previously more than 50 failed in an ugly way due to an API limit)
• Updated demo repo and client

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

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Discussions/Press

• Wikidata and ISO standards

Events

see Events

• WikiCon
• office hours (de en)
• ongoing: State of the Map
• upcoming: Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
• upcoming: Software Freedom Day Hamburg

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We have a list of Wikidata team members on Twitter if you want to follow them

Open Tasks for You

• Test the demo system
• Hack on one of these

(Ping Lydia if you’re looking for something else.)

Anything to add? Please share! :)