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Wikidata weekly summary #135

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This Month in Education: October 2014

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Wikidata weekly summary #136

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
    • Statements on properties are now live
    • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
    • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
    • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
    • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
    • English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Started work on units
    • More work on evaluating options for querying
    • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
    • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
    • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
    • Work on improved label lookup performance
    • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
  • Monthly Tasks

Tech News: 2014-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [1]
  • You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [2]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [3]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [4]
  • You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [5]
  • It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [6] [7]
  • The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [8] [9] [10]
  • (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [11] [12]

Future changes

  • Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [13]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

This Month in GLAM: November 2014



Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide
  • Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
  • France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
  • Germany report: Facts, fun and free content
  • Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin
  • Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC
  • Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon
  • Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet)
  • Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits
  • South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town
  • Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth
  • UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels
  • Special story: ORCID identifiers
  • Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling
  • Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #137

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Tech News: 2014-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [14]
  • You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [15]
  • You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [16]
  • You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [17]
  • VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [18]
  • The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [19]

Future changes

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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #138

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Tech News: 2014-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [24]

Software changes this week

  • There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [25]

Future changes

  • The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [26]
  • A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [27]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Beetles

Hi! I am Gug01 and I noticed that you are in WikiProject Beetles. Now so am I. I was thinking that we could work together to revive the project. Cheers! Gug01 (talk) 16:21, 26 December 2014 (UTC) Gug 01

Thanks. I am interested in providing illustrations and references and in Wikidata information on beetles. Am currently drafting a Wikidata-related research proposal where taxonomy and identification keys are likely to be covered in some form, which may provide opportunities to work on beetles too. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes

  • There are no technical changes this week.

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #139

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This Month in Education: December 2014

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This Month in GLAM: December 2014



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Tech News: 2015-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [28]
  • You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [29]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
  • A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [30]
  • The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [31]
  • The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [32] [33] [34]
  • The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [35]

Future changes

  • You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [36]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #141

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Tech News: 2015-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[37] [38]
  • Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

  • All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [39]

Software changes this week

  • There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [40]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Beetles

Hi! Last time I asked you about WikiProject Beetles and you responded that you are working on WikiData. If so, may I ask a favor of you? Please add some WikiData for the Category:Eocarterus. Thanks! Gug01 (talk) 14:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC) Gug 01

Done – all articles in that category now have a corresponding Wikidata item. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:41, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

hi, we are developing a public database dedicated to sugar-protein (lectin) interactions of hosts with pathogens. There is an entry for sialyl-Lewis x as well as Sialyl-Lewis a, each describing some biological facts so we would like to suggest linking corresponding wikipedia pages to these entries. For further information: http://sugarbind.expasy.org/ligands/129 http://sugarbind.expasy.org/ligands/162

you can check us, we are part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExPASy this is real and internationally recognised. It would be really nice to complement the knowledge of Lewis antigens with the information we store in the SugarBind database. the database is manually curated (as described on our website).

I have discussed this issue at the wikipermanence in Geneva and they directed me to you. They suggested adding a new item for SugarBind in the ChemBox but of course I cannot do that.

Thank you for your consideration your can contact me anytime (see http://sugarbind.expasy.org) best frederique 2001:620:600:6000:218:FEFF:FE28:AECE (talk) 16:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I think the best place to discuss this on the English Wikipedia would be WT:CHEMISTRY, and d:Wikidata talk:WikiProject Chemistry for Wikidata. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:45, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #142

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