Wikidata-tech April 2014

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TravisCI integration with Gerrit
by Jeroen De Dauw 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Hey Steffen and Andy, Continuing what I started on Twitter here, as some more characters might be helpful :) It seems that both our projects (FLOW3 and Wikidata) are in a similar situation. We are using Gerrit as CR tool, and TravisCI to run our tests. And we both want to have Travis run tests for all patchsets submitted to Gerrit, and then +1 or -1 on verified based on the build passing or failing. To what extend have you gotten such a thing to work on your project? Is there code available anywhere? If both projects can use the same code for this, I'd be happy to contribute to what you already have. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 --

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Study about collaborative production
by P2Pvalue-IGOPnet 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

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Daily
by Jeroen De Dauw 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hey, I've mainly been poking at DataModel, where I continued work on removing the old serilization code [0]. This is almost done now. In the process of working towards that, I've also added equality methods to most value objects in the DataModel [1]. Last week I ended up not doing much more than CR and various misc things, as I did not work on WD for many hours Plans for today: survive all the evil meetings. [0] https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/pull/62/files#diff-0 [1] https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#vers… Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Wikibase DataModel 0.7.3 released
by Jeroen De Dauw 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hey all, I am happy to announce the 0.7.3 release of Wikibase DataModel. Wikibase DataModel is the canonical PHP implementation of the Data Model at the heart of the Wikibase software. It is primarily used by the Wikibase MediaWiki extensions, though has no dependencies whatsoever on these or on MediaWiki itself. This release contains a new API for working with labels, descriptions and terms, and it deprecates the old API for those. More details can be found at http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2014/04/14/wikibase-datamodel-0-7-3-released/ Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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Heads up: Changes to API error codes
by Daniel Kinzler 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

Today, Thiemo merged my patch introducing the ApiErrorReporter class: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124323/>. This should help us with providing error reports from the API in a consistent manner; This way, we will hopefully soon be able to provide more localized error messages too. However, this means that some of the error codes used by the API may have changed, and more will change when more API modules start using this module. Also, it means that localized messages are included in a slightly different way. If you rely on error codes or localized error messages, please keep an eye out for breakage in that regard. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Using the canonical JSON model in dumps.
by Daniel Kinzler 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi all! Context: We plan to change the XML dumps (and Special:Export) to use the same JSON serialization that is used by the API, instead of the terse but brittle "internal" format. This is about the mechanism we plan to use for the conversion. SO, I just went and checked my assertion that WikiExporter will use the Content object's serialize method to generate output. I WAS WRONG. It doesn't. I'll use the text from the database, as-is (for reference, find the call to Revision::getRevisionText in Export.php). In order to force a conversion to the new format, we'll need to patch core to a) inject a hook here to override the default behavior or b) make it always use a Content object (unless, perhaps, told explicitly not to). This is not hard to code, but doing it Right (tm) may need some discussion, and getting it merged may need some time. Sorry for not checking this earlier. Daniel -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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Diff 1.0 released
by Jeroen De Dauw 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hey all, I'm very happy to announce the 1.0 release of the PHP Diff library<https://github.com/wmde/Diff>. Diff is a small PHP library for representing differences between data structures, computing such differences, and applying them as a patch. For more details see the usage instructions <https://github.com/wmde/Diff#usage> . I created this library as part of the Wikibase software <http://wikiba.se/>for the Wikidata project <https://www.wikidata.org>. While it is used by Wikibase, it's fully independent of it (and has no dependencies on any other PHP code). The first release was during September 2012, and since then it has seen a new release with refinements and new features every few months. As we've been using it on Wikidata.org for over a year, and there are no known bugs with the library, it can be considered to be quite stable and robust. The 1.0 does not add anything in terms of functionality. The primary change it brings is PSR-4 compliance. It also removes some old constructs that had been deprecated for a long time already. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes<https://github.com/wmde/Diff/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md> . Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3

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