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WikiCup 2013 June newsletter
We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. 
Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: 
Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted 
Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to 
Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, 
Casliber (submissions) and 
Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 09:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
- On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on
$wgCanonicalNamespace. [1] - A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [2]
- There was a short site outage on June 28.
- The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the
<gallery />tag (bug #50119). [3] - The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [4]
- There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [5]
- The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [6]
- VisualEditor news:
- Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
- VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
- In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
- Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
- TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
- Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
- Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [7]
- Future software changes
- VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
- From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [8]
- The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [9]
- Erratum
- Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [10]
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WikiProject Amusement Park Quarter 3, 2013 Newsletter
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- In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
- Featured content: Queen of France
- WikiProject report: Puppies!
- News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
- Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
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- Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
- Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
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Wikidata weekly summary #65
- Discussions
- Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
- RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
- Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
- One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
- Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
- Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
- Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
- Development
- Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
- Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
- Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
- Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
- Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
- Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
- Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
- Lots of bugfixing
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
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Latest [[<tvar|technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News</>|tech news]] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. [[<tvar|more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28</>|Translations]] are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
- A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [11]
- Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
- Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [12]
- Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [13]
Future software changes
- MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
- It will now be possible to create empty
MediaWiki:messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [15] - The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [16]
- The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [17]
- Table of contents will now use the HTML
<div />element instead of<table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [18] - First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [19]
- A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.
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This Month in GLAM: June 2013
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I have started a discussion at Talk:Rights of Englishmen. No rush on this. Bearian (talk) 16:43, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 10 July 2013
- WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
- Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere
- Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
- Featured content: The week of the birds
- Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
Wikidata weekly summary #66
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
- Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
- Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
- Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
- Development
- Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
- Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
- Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
- The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
- Open Tasks for You
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- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these
Hi. I notice that you're the one who fully protected this template five years ago, with the stated reason of it being a "vandal target". Currently, it's transcluded to 800 pages, which normally only warrants semi-protection, not full-. I was wondering if you'd be willing to reconsider. If it weren't fully protected, there are several bold changes I'd love to make to it, and I don't think it's fair for some vandals from years ago to stop me from that. Thanks. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks! I've made the changes I want to, though I think it might be a good idea to leave it unprotected for a few more days, in case someone wants to revert me, or if I notice a minor false positive or negative caused by my changes, and want to fix it. (I'll also be traveling tomorrow, and starting an internship on Monday, so I might be away from my computer for some longer-than-usual stretches of time over the next 48 hours or so.)
- Oh, and on the general point, I agree with you that this template is probably high risk due to the prominence of some of the articles it's used on. Then again, until yesterday any random editor could've edited Module:Authority control, transcluded to thousands upon thousands of BLPs, and not a single one thought to. (Though maybe the GNAA and Encyclopedia Dramatica guys were just too lazy to learn Lua.) — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 23:30, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [20]
- The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the
__DISAMBIG__code to disambiguation templates (see example). [21] - The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions. [22]
- The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
- VisualEditor news:
- According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
- Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
- Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
- Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
- Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
- The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.
Future software changes
- A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [23]
- The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [24]
- Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [25] [26]
- Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [27]
- Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [28]
- A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
- An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [29]
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James Currie
Thanks for the Who's Who reference, and could you please return to answer a second request? 2001:18E8:2:1020:3851:4713:742B:BDCC (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 17 July 2013
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
- Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
- Featured content: Documents and sports
Wikidata weekly summary #67
- Discussions
- A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
- Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
- Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
- Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
- Events/Press
- Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
- 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
- Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
- Development
- Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
- Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
- Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
- Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
- Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
- Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
- Templates no longer parsed in labels.
- Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
- Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
- Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25. [30]
- A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs. [31]
- VisualEditor news:
- The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29. [32]
- A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
- SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
- Users can now edit
<nowiki>...</nowiki>blocks (bug #47678). - When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text. [33]
- Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
- A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.
Future software changes
- The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed. [34]
- Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457). [35]
- A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org. [36]
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20:58, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
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