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Wikidata weekly summary #147

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 12:47, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [1]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [2] [3]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [4] [5] [6] [7]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [8]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [9]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [10]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [11]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

• From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

• Traffic report: Attack of the movies

• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

• Interview: Meet a paid editor

• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

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Wikidata weekly summary #148

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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 now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [12] [13]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [14] [15] [16]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [17] [18]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [19] [20]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [21] [22]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [23] [24]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [25]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [26]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [27]

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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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Wikidata weekly summary #149

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Successful RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Pictures, reloaded
  • Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
  • Linkin mash
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Wikidata graph generator
  • Please help test the next step for header redesign
  • Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
  • Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
  • Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
  • Query generator spreadsheet
  • Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
  • Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
  • Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
  • Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
  • Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [28]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [29]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [30] [31]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [32] [33]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [34] [35]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [36] [37]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [38]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [39]

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15:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Editathon at MACBA
  • Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
  • We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
  • Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
  • There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
  • First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
  • DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
  • Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
  • Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
  • Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
• Development
  • Fixed property suggestions on empty items
  • Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
  • Updated various documentation
  • Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
  • Polishing in the user interface
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [40]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [41] [42] [43]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [44]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [45]

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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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Wikidata weekly summary #151

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Sex and artists
  • VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
  • Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
  • New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
  • An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
  • The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
  • Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
  • Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
  • New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-14

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 now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [46]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [47] [48] [49]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [50]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [51]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [52]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [53]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [54]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [55]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [56]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [57] [58] [59] [60]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [61]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)