Wikidata:Status updates/2014 11 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-11-02.

  • Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
  • Wikidata II

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

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  • Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
  • HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
  • Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
  • Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
  • Work on fixing XML dumps
  • Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
  • Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
  • Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
  • Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
  • Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
  • Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget

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

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

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Anything to add? Please share! :)