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Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
Open Tasks for You
Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
DevelopmentWord from John
To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
Development
Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
Improved and added a lot of tests
Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
Caching and database improvements
Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
More work on quantities UI
Open Tasks for You
Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
Hi Daniel, I've been thinking about the possibility of uploading a large quantity of open access journal articles - by large I mean in the region of 1,000,000 - to Wikimedia, presumably Wikisource. Then I noticed that this is something you proposed way back in 2011! I'd love to automatically harvest all CC-BY licensed journals and repositories for inclusion, but I don't exactly how it could be achieved. If you're still interested in the idea we should have a chat about it some time. - Lawsonstu (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I am still working on it and plan to set up a workflow for that as part of the OA signalling project - the idea here would be to signal OA-ness by linking to a copy on Wikimedia servers. Needs community approval. Biggest hurdle may be non-text files in formats not accepted on Commons (e.g. doc and xls). I'm available to discuss this for most of the coming days. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:12, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hey Daniel. Would having any of these articles translated into Russian be useful? [1] If you are willing to integrate them we can look at having Translators Without Borders find translators. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Just did a few. Will get back as time permits. Haven't acted on several that would be "maybe translate" for me, and could not find guidance on how to handle that. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #93
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
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Wikidata weekly summary #96
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.