Wikidata:Status updates/2013 01 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-01-11.

Development

• Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
• Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
• Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
• Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
• Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla: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 (bugzilla: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 (bugzilla: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

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

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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

Anything to add? Please share! :)