Wikidata/Newsletter/Archive - Meta

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Reset, undo, reverts and other cool things are working now (not on demo yet unfortunately)
  • Edit is now disabled if item should not be editable (e.g. in diff view)
  • Decided on how to solve messed up DOM structure of items around the page header
  • Decided on how to proceed with JS-API
  • All of the test coverage for Diff extension
  • Extended test setup on local test machine
• Discussions/Press
  • Deployment (Italian Wikipedia community is discussing becoming the second to use Wikidata)
  • Export to RDF
  • Signpost coverage of first deployment preparations
• Events
  • upcoming: Campus Party (If you want a ticket let Lydia know. She might be able to get you one.)
  • Lydia will give a keynote at FrOSCon
  • Denny will give a keynote at SMWCon
• Open Tasks for You
  • We added new stuff here if you want to hack
  • Give feedback on the layout concepts for phase 2

• Development
  • Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system. Let us know if any important ones are missing.
  • Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected
  • The history and recent changes show useable comments now
  • The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension
  • Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext.
  • Improved internationalization messages
  • Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more
  • Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment
  • Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues
  • Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items.
  • Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata
• Discussions/Press
  • Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia
  • Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular. Like this one
• Events
  • upcoming: Campus Party
  • upcoming: FrOSCon
  • We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: with and without text Stickers and stuff are next.
• Open Tasks for You
  • If you want to code, check this
  • Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet.
  • Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net

• Development
  • Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/
  • Updated demo system
  • The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again
  • Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column
  • Started refactoring of selenium tests layout
  • Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation
  • Created abstract storage interface for the repository
  • Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities
  • Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends
  • Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects
  • The new API module for linking titles is live
  • Launched a demo client site in Hebrew
  • Various internationalization improvements and fixes
  • Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository
  • Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation
• Discussions/Press
  • Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits
  • Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published (the talks will hopefully follow soon)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
• Events
  • Campus Party
  • upcoming: FrOSCon
  • upcoming: WikiCon
  • announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.)
  • still looking for support for our SxSW panel
• Open Tasks for You
  • for possible coding tasks check this
  • check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback

• Development
  • Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki incorporating feedback from wikitech and mediawiki.org, as well as updating the WIkibase code to match
  • Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata
  • Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data
  • Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for ltr-languages).
  • The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table
  • Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns
  • Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code
  • Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place
  • Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly “lastrevid” and “baserevid”
  • The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check if your bots are still working.)
  • The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full “ItemDisambiguation” page
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussion about unwanted edits
• Events
  • Campus Party (video)
  • FrOSCon
  • right now: WikiCon
  • upcoming: State of the Map
  • upcoming: office hours on IRC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please vote for our SXSW panel. Voting ends today.
• Open Tasks for You
  • for possible coding tasks check this
  • check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback

• 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
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata and ISO standards
• 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.)

• Development
  • 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
• Discussions/Press
  • 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
  • State of the Map
  • Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
  • upcoming: Software Freedom Day
• Open Tasks for You
  • New stuff to hack on

• Development
  • Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 of Wikidata
  • Updated demo system (the corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018)
  • Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts
  • Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word
  • Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated when the connecting link got removed or changed)
  • Windows support for pollForChanges-Script
  • New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities
  • Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work
  • The API is generalized to handle additional entities
  • Created initial DataType implementation
  • Created store for the client
  • Improved and extended store for the repository
  • Started on initial DataValue implementation
  • Wrote tests for client
  • Fixed localization bugs
  • Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field
  • Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces
  • Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model
  • Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions about the content model of the main namespace in several places
• Discussions/Press
  • Several questions/suggestions on m:Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
  • More additions to m:Wikidata/Preventing unwanted edits, m:Wikidata/Notes/Future and m:Wikidata/Data collaborators
  • Deployment/code review discussions with the Foundation
• Events
  • Software Freedom Day
  • upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE
  • upcoming: Datengarten
• Open Tasks for You
  • m:Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation
  • Hack on all the tasks and bugs

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items this applies for the combination of label and description.)
  • Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
  • Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
  • Added resource module for loading site information
  • Improved change handling on the client, including when items are deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the client’s recent changes (still rough)
  • New "List all datatypes" Special page
  • Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
  • Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to entities and item to entity
  • Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit token from action=tokens instead)
  • Some cleanup for the security audit
  • Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
  • Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
  • Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
  • Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being reviewed by WMF (current review status)
  • Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and visible online
• Discussions/Press
  • JSON for phase 2
  • Concept for entity selection widget
• Events
  • Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
  • Datengarten
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
  • upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
  • upcoming: Data Days
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well in advance please so it reaches you in time.
  • We have a shiny new contribute page
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help update the press page
  • Pick one of the open coding tasks

• Development
  • Added various new DataValue classes
  • Worked on ‘edit’ buttons for non-JavaScript version of entity views
  • Worked on resourceloader module for sites
  • Tests for PropertyView and CreateProperty
  • Tests for Uniqueness of Properties & Items
  • Tests for propagation of Item deletion/undeletion to client wiki
  • Tests for change propagation to Watchlists on client wiki
  • HTML validation results for Wikibase are now online
  • Special:CreateProperty is renamed to Special:NewProperty, to avoid naming conflicts in translatewiki with other extensions
  • Work on scripts for rebuilding and resetting data stores in the client
  • The client now handles when an item gets deleted on the repository
  • Wrote fixes for security concerns raised during review by WMF
  • Working on Wikidata branch in preparation of merging it into core/master soon.
• Discussions/Press
  • comparison articles
  • expiration dates for data
• Events
  • Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
  • Open Source Meetup Berlin
  • Data Days
  • upcoming: KESW (keynote by Markus Krötzsch)
  • upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • First 6 months of Wikidata are over!
  • Great pictures and videos taken at the MediaWiki Hackathon in Berlin earlier this year
  • You can follow all Wikidata bug reports by subscribing to the Wikidata bugs mailinglist
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Test some of the less common things you do on Wikipedia on the test repository and report bugs if you find anything that’s not working as it should

• Development
  • Wikidata branch was merged \o/ (about 10.000 lines of code) This also means that MediaWiki now has shiny new ContentHandler features to enable storing data and other content types
  • Updated demo system
  • Fixed MediaWiki core bugs and responded to feedback about the ContentHandler
  • Looked into Solr
  • Added statement interface for items
  • Added claim interface for entities
  • Added IRIValue and GeoCoordinateValue
  • Added GeoCoordinate parser
  • Added base for the ValueFormatters extension
  • Initial work on create claim API module
  • Initial work on better API transformation handling of the data model components
  • Made the API aware that entities, not items are the thingies we really want to get
  • Finished implementation of non-JavaScript edit buttons
  • Switched local integration server to use core master branch
  • Improved how recent changes from the repository are displayed in the client
  • Worked on tests for recent changes on the client
  • Added Wikipedia-compatible URL rewrites for subdomains en, de, hu and he (en.wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Helium leads to the item)
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2
  • Written a blog post looking back at August and September
• Events
  • KESW
  • upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Design the Main Page of Wikidata

• Development
  • Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
  • Updated the demo system
  • Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
  • Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
  • Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
  • Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
  • Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
  • Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
  • Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
  • Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
  • Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
  • Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
  • Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
  • There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type
  • Made site links table sortable
  • Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet)
  • Latest review status update here
• Discussions/Press
  • Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
  • en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-15/Technology report
  • Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia
  • Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
• Events
  • Wikimedia CEE meeting
  • upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
  • upcoming: SMWCon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help design the Main Page of Wikidata
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
  • Prefix term search for entities
  • Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
  • API function wbsearchentities
  • Discussed JavaScript refactoring
  • Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
  • Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
  • Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
  • Continued deployment work with WMF
  • Poked at Vagrant
  • Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
  • New release of Pywikidata
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussions around bots on the mailing list
• Events
  • Bootstrapping Awesome
  • SMWCon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
  • Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
• Open Tasks for You
  • Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
  • Hack on one of these

• 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

• 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 [[d: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!

• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue rocking!

• 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

• 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 meta:Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
  • Hack on one of these

• 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

• 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
  • Publicity for Wikidata and Wikivoyage
  • “Importing data is hard: a rant about integrating open data projects”
  • Disallowing links to locked wikis
  • Sourcing of every statement
• 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

• 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
  • “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“
• Events
  • WhereCamp
  • Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
  • upcoming: 29C3
  • upcoming: Office hours
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • More pretty Wikidata artwork
• Open Tasks for You
  • Want to help Lydia write the next weekly summary? Let her know.
  • Hack on one of these

• 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
  • Representing values 1 2 (including a prototype to try out the current state of discussions)
  • "Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One"
• Events
  • Office hours (logs for English and German)
  • Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
  • upcoming: 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Announced the expected date for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
  • Wikidata has been added to the Wikimedia stats site
  • Video of the Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2012 is online now
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give input to the representing values discussion
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
  • Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
  • Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
  • Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
  • Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
• Discussions/Press
  • Ranking of Items
• Events
  • right now: 29C3
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
  • Extended tests for statements user interface
  • Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
  • Layout improvements in the user interface
  • Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
  • Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
  • More work on AbuseFilter
  • Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
  • Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
• Discussions/Press
  • Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
  • Bureaucrat support requirements
  • Defining administrators
• Events
  • 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
  • You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
  • Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
  • Hack on one of these

• 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
• 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

• Development
  • We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
  • We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
  • Refactored sites code to improve design
  • Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
  • Added lots of new Selenium tests
  • Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
  • Implemented new change dispatcher script
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
  • Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
  • Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
  • Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
  • Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
  • Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
• Discussions/Press
  • Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
  • Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
  • RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
  • Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
  • There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
  • Deployed new code on wikidata.org
  • Community Portal got a rework
  • Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
• Open Tasks for You
  • d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Improved design of sites code in core
  • Fixed SQLite compatibility
  • Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
  • Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
  • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
  • Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
  • Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
  • More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
  • AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
  • The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
  • Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
  • Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
  • Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
• Discussions/Press
  • VIAF
• Events
  • InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
  • Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
  • upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reconfirmation of temporary admins
  • Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
  • Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
  • Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
  • Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
  • Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
  • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
  • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
  • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Working on property parser function for the client
  • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
  • Resumed work on linked data interface
  • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
  • Several minor user interface fixes
  • Styling of the user interface for statements
  • Selenium tests for references
  • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
  • Worked on puppet
• Discussions/Press
  • Abuse filter guidelines
  • Policy on properties
  • First external tool for output in RDF: [4] and [5]
  • Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
• Events
  • We’ve set the date for the next office hours
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
  • Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
  • Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
  • Started work on query definitions
  • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
  • Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
  • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
  • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
  • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
  • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
  • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
  • Repaired and updated the demo system
  • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
  • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
  • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
  • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
  • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
• Discussions/Press
  • Signpost
  • Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
• Events
  • FOSDEM
  • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
  • List of existing properties and their usage
  • List of new proposed properties
• Open Tasks for You
  • d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
  • d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Deployment to English Wikipedia
  • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
  • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
  • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
  • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
  • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
  • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
  • Started with valueview refactoring
  • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
  • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
  • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
  • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
  • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
  • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
  • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
  • Created query object
  • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
  • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
  • Search should give more of the complete matches now
  • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
  • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
  • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
  • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
• Discussions/Press
  • List of currently existing properties
  • Proposals for new properties
• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
  • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
  • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
  • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
    • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
    • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
    • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
    • Better handling of deleted properties
    • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
  • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
  • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
  • Check out a well-done item
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
  • Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Hack on one these

• Development
  • Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
  • Updated demo system
  • Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
  • Implemented first version of a string data type
  • Worked on better error reporting from the API
  • Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
  • Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
  • Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
  • Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
  • Worked on cleanup of local entity store
  • Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata development will continue in 2013
  • Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
  • RFC about the Wikidata API
  • Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at d:Wikidata:Property proposal
  • RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
  • Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
• Events
  • office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
  • Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
  • Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
  • “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
  • List of most used properties
  • OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
  • Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
  • We’ve hit d:Q5000000
  • Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

• Development
  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing
• Events
  • Wikipedia Day NYC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hour (German)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
  • Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
    • don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
    • use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
    • preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
  • Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
  • More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
  • Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
  • Created initial QueryStore interface
  • Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
  • Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
  • Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
  • Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
  • Improved handling of deleted properties
  • Further work on replacement for current search box
  • More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
  • Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
• Discussions/Press
  • Hacker News noticed we exist
  • RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
  • Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
• Events
  • WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
  • office hour in German
  • upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
  • Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
  • How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
  • More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
  • Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
  • Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
  • New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
• Did you know?
  • Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
  • Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
  • There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue being awesome

• • Development
  • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
  • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
  • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
  • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
    • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
    • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
  • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
  • Selenium tests for multiline references
  • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
  • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
  • Selenium tests for language-table
  • Implemented in-process caching for entities
  • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
  • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
  • Improved error reports from the API
  • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
  • Added a table of content to item pages
  • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
  • Finished implementation of References-UI
  • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
  • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
  • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
  • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
  • More work on RDF export
• Discussions/Press
  • When to autoconfirm users
  • More property proposals
• Events
  • Bibliothek und Information
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium
  • upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
  • We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
  • Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: [6] [7]
  • The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
  • Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
  • Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
  • We crossed item ID 7000000
  • We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
  • Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
  • Reasonator got a few more goodies
• Did you know?
  • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
  • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
    • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
    • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
    • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
  • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
  • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
  • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
  • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
  • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way too long to show up on the Wikipedias.
  • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
  • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
  • Support for multi-line references in diff view
  • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
  • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
  • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
  • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata
• Events
  • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
  • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
  • SMWCon Spring NYC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
  • Too many items with the same label and no description? Terminator helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000
  • Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? WikidataStats can help
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
  • Detailed list of bots
  • Collecting information about creating a bot
  • We’ve crossed Q8000000
• Did you know?
  • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look at d:Wikidata:Contribute

• Development
  • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
  • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
  • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
  • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
  • Selenium tests for qualifiers
  • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
  • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
• Discussions/Press
  • Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
  • Proposal for a vandalism policy
  • Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
  • Should Wikidata have featured items?
  • RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
  • Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
  • Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
• Events
  • Newline 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
  • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
  • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
  • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
  • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
  • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
  • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
  • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
  • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
  • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
  • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
  • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
  • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
• Did you know?
  • If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
• Open Tasks for You
  • See note at the end of this weekly summary
  • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
  • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
  • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
  • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
  • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
  • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
  • Implemented string formatter
• Discussions/Press
  • RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
  • RFC about statements for items related to software
• Events
  • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
  • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
  • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
  • We hit Q10000000
  • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
• Did you know?
  • There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
  • You can get database dumps to play with
  • There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hit a random item and add a missing source?
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
  • We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
  • We now have Bureaucrats
  • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help draft the next weekly summary

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts were detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473 (an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid)
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • SemTechBiz
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
  • Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
• Development
  • Worked on globe coordinate editing
  • Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
  • EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
  • And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
  • Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
  • EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
  • Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
  • Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
  • RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
  • RfC about personal names
• Events/Press
  • Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
• Development
  • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
  • Further work on input validation
  • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
  • Use Serializers for generating API results
  • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
  • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
  • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
  • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
  • RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
  • Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
  • One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
  • Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
  • Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
  • Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
• Development
  • Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
  • Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
  • Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
  • Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
  • Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
  • Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
  • Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
  • Lots of bugfixing
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

 

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.