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A kitten for you!
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Just drop by to say hi! :D
RexRowan Talk 11:20, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you, my friend, and a 'hi' back to you! -- Netha (talk) 11:36, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- I am a newbie, been here since last month. I have much to learn from you and hope you don't mind! Hugs! :D -- RexRowan Talk 11:43, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- It is amazing to know that you've done so much (16 well-written articles!) within a month! I can surely help you with doing things from the best of my knowledge! If there is any specific help you want to have from me, do contact me on this page and I shall be happy to help you out!
And yes, I am an enthusiast of pharmacology like you! Looking forward to working with you! -- Netha (talk) 11:48, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! I am good with photos, graphs and tables. I am ok with writing but I am not good rewording stuff as English is not my first language and I fear I may make it sound stupid. Maybe you can reword a few short paragraphs of my badly written articles to shown me how you would do it, much appreciated! :D -- RexRowan Talk 11:58, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'd be more than happy to help you! Please check out the history of the pages you've been working on lately, and look out for the edits with the edit summary 'typo', in which I have tried to rephrase some of the sentences. Your English is good enough, and sufficient to convey the idea. Just keep writing the articles in the best possible way you can assuming good faith. Hope you'd write a FA in English one day! Keep going! All the best! -- Netha (talk) 12:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, Netha
Thanks, Netha; appreciating your contributions here. -- Jkadavoor (talk) 05:04, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Great...big contributions at a young age...! AIB (talk) 21:16, 8 September 2012 (UTC) |
Let's get the blogging party started!
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Hi Netha! Thank you for signing up to be a founding volunteer of the WikiWomen's Collaborative. I've started to draft ideas for blogs on meta, here! Feel free to chime in, and let's get this blogging party started! :) SarahStierch (talk) 00:17, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Interview
Hi Netha, hope all is good with you! I met one of the most wonderful female editor on Wiki but I've never interviewed anyone before so would you like to interview her? Her page is User:CaroleHenson --RexRowan忍(Ninja signal) 08:49, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, Rex, for letting me know about Carole. I shall certainly consider interviewing her. -- Netha (talk) 18:18, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- Awesome! :D --RexRowan忍(Ninja signal) 18:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #22
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- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #24
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- 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
A barnstar for you!
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The Original Barnstar |
For writing Anaesthesia for ocular surgery - a wonderful article :). Ironholds (talk) 11:41, 27 September 2012 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #25
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- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #26
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- 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
- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #27
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- 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
- 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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A bowl of strawberries for you!
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The Signpost: 15 October 2012
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Page Curation newsletter - closing up!
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:31, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Ada Lovelace Day
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Ada Lovelace Award | |
Hi Netha, Thank you for all of the effort you put into the Ada Lovelace Day editathon! I'm presenting you with the Ada Lovelace Award for starting articles for Bindu Bambah and Kamala Sohonie. Your contributions are always highly appreciated. Cheers, Gobōnobō + c 16:03, 21 October 2012 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #28
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- 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
- Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective
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- Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
- Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
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Wikidata weekly summary #29
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- 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
DYK for Kamala Sohonie
![]() | On 27 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kamala Sohonie, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kamala Sohonie. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for dropping by my user page and for leaving a note. Appreciate it. cheers. Arunram (talk) 15:30, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!
Am so honoured and pleased to get this award - was anyway going to expand this article, but commit to doing so, and to creating more articles on invisible women. Cheers! Bishdatta (talk) 17:13, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you very much Netha Hussain. I don't know that I am doing the right step to reply you or not. I am really very much confused. How to leave a message on your talk page? Thank you for your cookies. I was not able even to reply you. ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ helped me.Urbashi (talk) 12:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #30
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- 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
Help
Hi Netha! For some technical problem I dnt have MS Office and other essential software in my lappy. Is it necessary to have all these stuff in my lappy for the workshop tomorrow i.e. 4th Nov 2012. plz help me.Urbashi (talk) 17:18, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2012
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Some baklava for you!
For helping me.. Urbashi (talk) 12:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC) |
WikiMedicine
Hi
I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.
Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.
Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #31
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- 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!
This is not a newsletter
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:12, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 November 2012
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Wikidata weekly summary #32
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- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #33
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- 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?
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Wikidata weekly summary #34
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- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #35
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- 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
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- 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!
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- Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
- Code on one of these
- Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute
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Wikidata weekly summary #36
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- 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”)
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- Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
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Wikidata weekly summary #37
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- 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 ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-December/001491.html including a