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The Signpost: 08 October 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
- WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
- Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
- Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
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Wikidata weekly summary #27[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
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The Signpost: 15 October 2012[edit]
- In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
- Featured content: Second star to the left
- News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
- Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost
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Wikidata weekly summary #28[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
The Signpost: 22 October 2012[edit]
- Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective
- Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule
- Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
- Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
- News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
- WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
- Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
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Wikidata weekly summary #29[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
The Signpost: 29 October 2012[edit]
- News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
- WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
- Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
- Featured content: On the road again
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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2012[edit]
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Wikidata weekly summary #30[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
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The Signpost: 05 November 2012[edit]
- Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
- News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
- Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
- Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
- Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka
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Wikidata weekly summary #31[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 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
- 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!
The Signpost: 12 November 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
- Featured content: The table has turned
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly
- WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
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Wikidata weekly summary #32[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
- Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
- Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
- Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
- Improvements to Diff extension
- Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
- Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
- Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this
- Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
- Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges
- Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
- Reviewed tons of JS code
- Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
- Updated demo system
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
- ISWC
- Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
- Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now
- Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Invitation to tech chats[edit]
Hydriz, I wanted to invite you to watch and participate in our live tech chats, which include video streaming. The next one is next week and it's more for newbies (they can watch, live, via screensharing, as a developer fixes a bug, including investigation, a git commit, getting it reviewed and merged, and closing the Bugzilla ticket), but maybe you'd like to participate as one of the developers or reviewers? We're also interested in having guest presenters, in case there's something you'd like to present about.
Hope this is of interest! Best wishes, Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 16:10, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 November 2012[edit]
- News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
- WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
- Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
- Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
- Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
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Wikidata weekly summary #33[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Refactored and improved change propagation code
- Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
- Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits
- Pruning of changes table
- Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
- Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
- Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
- JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
- Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
- Improved entity selector widget
- Added Selenium tests for special pages
- Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
- Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
- Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- upcoming: Offener Sonntag at WMDE’s membership assembly
- upcoming: SWIB
- foss.in
- local meetup in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata has been added to wikistream
- We now have nearly 800 active users \o/
- We are still looking for partners for ourevent at 29C3. Any pointers?
- Open Tasks for You
- wikidata:Wikidata:Task forces and meta:Wikidata/Contribute are a good starting point
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 26 November 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
- Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
- Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
- Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries
- WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2012[edit]
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Wikidata weekly summary #34[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
- Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
- Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
- Better recent changes comments on the client
- Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
- The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
- The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
- Added a number of profiler calls
- Special:Contributions displays labels now
- User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
- Statements can be created and saved now
- Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
- Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
- Improved entity selector widget
- Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
- Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
- Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
- Some PHPUnit test fixes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Linuxday
- Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
- SWIB
- foss.in
- upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Give the demo system a try
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The Signpost: 03 December 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
- Featured content: The play's the thing
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
- Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability
- WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
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Wikidata weekly summary #35[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
- Added wbsetqualifier API module
- Added wbremovequalifiers API module
- New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
- Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
- Selenium tests now independent from ULS
- Selenium tests for statements UI
- Existing statements can be edited now
- Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
- Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
- Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
- Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
- Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
- Improvements in templating engine
- Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
- Set up a fresh dev server for testing
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Foss.in
- Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- WhereCamp Berlin
- Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
- Announced next office hours
- Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
- New admin notice board
- “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
- “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
- Code on one of these
- Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute
The Signpost: 10 December 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
- Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
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Wikimedia Highlights from November 2012[edit]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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Wikidata weekly summary #36[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
- Updated demo system
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
- Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
- It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
- Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
- No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
- Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
- Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
- Removed many singletons to reduce global state
- Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
- Improved settings system
- Improved options of ValueFormatters
- Improved options of ValueParsers
- Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
- Fixed serialization of SiteArray
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
- Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
- Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
- Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
- Moved the demo system to a larger server
- Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
- Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
- A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- WhereCamp
- Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
- upcoming: 29C3
- upcoming: Office hours
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
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The Signpost: 17 December 2012[edit]
- News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
- WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
- Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
- Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
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Wikidata weekly summary #37[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla:42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
- Updated demo system
- Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
- Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
- Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
- Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
- Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
- Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
- Bug fixes in the client
- Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
- Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
- Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
- Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
- Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
- Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
- Discussions/Press
- Events
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Wikidata weekly summary #38[edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. It's rather short this time because pretty much everyone enjoys some well-deserved vacation.
- 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
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- right now: 29C3
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