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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”)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • WhereCamp
    • Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
    • upcoming: 29C3
    • upcoming: Office hours
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This Month in Education: December 2012



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autopatrolled flag in ukrainian wikipedia

Hello! You've made a number of useful edits in Ukrainian Wikipedia. We are currently using Flagged Revisions and would like you to have autopatrolled flag so no one would have to check your edits. If you don't mind I'll nominate you here. Zlir'a (talk) 10:40, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Добре, дякую. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:03, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
hello there. the flag is granted. use it automatically wise ;) happy new year! --antanana 20:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #38

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  • Development
    • Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
    • Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
    • Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
    • Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
    • Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
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  • Events
    • right now: 29C3
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Science collaboration of the month

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This Month in Education: January 2013



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Done. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 11:41, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for yesterday

Thanks for your interesting presentation yesterday The article I was talking about is located at Wikiversity:Average weight of a conventional teaspoon made of metal, and the process itself at Wikiversity:Wikiversity:Peer review verification if you want to have a look. I hope to see you another time, perhaps some Wikimania. Mikael Häggström (talk) 11:49, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Mikael! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 12:27, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Illustrated Wikispecies Tree of Life

While we are on this issue, could you write a script that compares existing Commons category/page and check if the corresponding Wikispecies page has an image? I know it has been done before for biographies. I have already tried contacting that individual but he seemed to be inactive since mid-December. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:36, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I contacted him by email. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:50, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
He replied "The code is here but I don't think is easy to adapt to Wikispecies". -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 10:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Did he say why? Frankly I think it should be much easier than that project since matching scientific species name is much more accurate. OhanaUnitedTalk page 07:25, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Nope. That's all he said, and I haven't yet found the time to take a closer look. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 15:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for helping to fix the formatting. I'm pretty sure the alpha version of the new Visual Editor added those extraneous bullets! :) -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:09, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help, and looking forward to the course. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 20:12, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #42

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  • Development
    • Updated demo system
    • Improved design of sites code in core
    • Fixed SQLite compatibility
    • Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
    • Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
    • Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
    • Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
    • Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
    • More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
    • AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
    • The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
    • Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
    • Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
    • Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
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Wikidata weekly summary #43

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  • Development
    • Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
    • Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
    • Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
    • Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
    • Working on property parser function for the client
    • Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
    • Resumed work on linked data interface
    • References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
    • Several minor user interface fixes
    • Styling of the user interface for statements
    • Selenium tests for references
    • Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
    • Worked on puppet
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  • Events
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    • Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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Slow-wave sleep

That video still doesn't work for me. --Hordaland (talk) 06:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

OK, I have asked for help. Please describe your observations there, and whether that is the only file affected. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 09:07, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #44

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  • Development
    • Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
    • Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
    • Started work on query definitions
    • Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
    • Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
    • Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
    • More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
    • Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
    • New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
    • JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
    • Repaired and updated the demo system
    • Resumed work on Linked Data interface
    • Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
    • There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
    • Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
    • Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • FOSDEM
    • upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
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This Month in GLAM: January 2013



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GLAM WIKI question

You applied to be a speaker at the GLAM WIKI conference (12-14 April 2013) and I was hoping you could answer a few questions.

  • Do you need funding to attend the conference?
  • If so, have you asked your chapter for support?
  • If you chapter is unable to offer financial support, how much would you need to attend the conference?

As yet speakers are undecided - we hope to make a decisions towards the end of the month - but you response would be helpful.

Your talk page is now on my watchlist in case you reply here, or your are welcome to email me at richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 14:21, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi Richard, I don't have complete answers yet but hope to have them by the end of the week. Will get back to you then. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 21:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Erwin Frink Smith

Hi Daniel, I noticed you have a draft in your sandbox about this guy and thought I should let you know I've created a very quick stub about him. Cheers SmartSE (talk) 11:56, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2013



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Wikidata weekly summary #45

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  • Development
    • Deployment to English Wikipedia
    • Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
    • Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
    • Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
    • Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
    • Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
    • Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
    • Started with valueview refactoring
    • Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
    • Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
    • Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
    • Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
    • Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
    • More work on Lua-based templates for entities
    • Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
    • Created query object
    • Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
    • Use of ID to directly address an item or property
    • Search should give more of the complete matches now
    • Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
    • More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
    • Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
    • Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
    • Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
    • Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
    • New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
      • Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
      • Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
      • Ability to add items to claims by their ID
      • Better handling of deleted properties
      • More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
    • We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
    • Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
    • Check out a well-done item
  • Open Tasks for You
  • Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
  • Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
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re: Austromerope

Hi. The citation you linked was to a completely different paper in the same issue of Zookeys. While it's nice that you tried to simplify the link, please be sure that if you do so again, the link you are inserting is the correct one. Thanks, Dyanega (talk)

Thanks for checking. However, I had only changed the formatting to a more standard one, leaving the doi as provided by you. If you want to refer to the other article, you can simply use {{Cite doi|10.3897/zookeys.269.4255}}. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 23:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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Back from India and Bangladesh

Open access barnstar!

I just got back to New York City yesterday. I am still a bit sick but the trip was productive. I am traveling this next week also - I hope to soon be back in my regular routine. Thanks for covering the open access file of the day project. User:Isarra made this barnstar, just as she has many others. I like her a lot. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back then! And yes, that's a nice one. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

Wikidata weekly summary #46

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

Wikidata weekly summary #47

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  • Development
    • Extended diff view to include references now
    • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
    • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
    • Updated the demo system
    • More work towards using Solr for our search
    • More investigation and fixes of search issues
    • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
    • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
    • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
    • A lot of bug fixing
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
    • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
    • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
    • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
    • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
    • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
    • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
    • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
    • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
    • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
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The Signpost: 04 March 2013

Wikidata weekly summary #48

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