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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2022)

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is:

Human history

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Medjed • Culinary arts

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Wikidata weekly summary #549

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
      • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles
  • Tool of the week
    • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.
  • Development
    • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
    • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
    • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
      • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
      • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
      • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
      • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
      • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
    • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
    • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
    • Query Service:
    • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
    • REST API:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Join the Coolest Tool Award 2022: Friday, Dec 16th, 17:00 UTC

The fourth edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC!

This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools!

Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.

Thanks for joining! -Komla


MediaWiki message delivery 18:52, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-49

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

  • The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [1][2]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2022



Headlines
  • Africa report: Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners & 2022 ISA Drive
  • Albania report: An event at the National History Museum in Tirana
  • Brazil report: WLM tool, Wiki Takes, New WMB's Strategy, and 2 new GLAMs
  • India report: Two Open Culture films on India's Odia language, made with volunteer labour
  • Indonesia report: Open GLAM Conference; Sundanese Wikisource Workshop; Minangkabau books digitization
  • Italy report: Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage
  • Netherlands report: Linking heritage data at HackaLOD
  • New Zealand report: Integrating with the BHL, loading natural science specimens and data
  • Poland report: How Wiki helps to explore and enjoy art & culture; Wiki workshop for the National Museum in Krakow; GLAM online meeting on ideas for 2023; Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
  • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and National Museum of Zrenjanin
  • Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at Musikverket; Women and architecture; Gymnasiearbete; New uploads from the Swedish National Archives; WLM winners; Images of Äpplet
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program
  • UK report: Khalili Foundation
  • Uruguay report: Let's GLAM Together in Uruguay: Help us organize the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023
  • USA report: WikiConference North America 2022; Punk Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon
  • Special story: We need your opinion: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 & Your Favorite Tools
  • Content Partnerships Hub report: Survey: your favorite tools
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2022)

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922
Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is:

Telephone line

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Human history • Medjed

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Wikidata weekly summary #550

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API:
    • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
    • Query Service:
      • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
      • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
      • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
      • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
    • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-50

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 changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
  • The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [5]

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2022)

Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion
Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is:

Central Bosnia

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Telephone line • Human history

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

This Month in Education: End of the 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 10 • October–November 2022

In This Issue

Wikidata weekly summary #551

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
      • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
      • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
    • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas
  • Development
    • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
    • Query Service:
      • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
      • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
      • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
      • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • mul language code:
      • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
      • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
    • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
    • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

  • On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [6]
  • A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [7]
  • One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [8]

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [9]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
  • The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [10] [11]

Future changes

  • Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [12]
  • The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
  • Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2022)

The Summer Palace of Peter the Great as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("Laundry") Bridge in August 2007
Hello, Jakesyl. The article for improvement of the week is:

Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Central Bosnia • Telephone line

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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