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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Notability (geographic features)

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Wikidata weekly summary #111

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
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  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [1]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [2]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3] [4]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [5]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [6]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [7] [8]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [9] [10]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [11] [12]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [13]

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08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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Train the Trainers refresher 2014

Hi Andrew,

Are you going to the refresher on the 28th? I have created a page for it wmuk:Train the Trainers refresher 2014. Signing-up there isn't compulsory, but we can use the page to coordinate and discuss what we want to get out of the day.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:35, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Yaris. Sadly not - I'll probably be busy with a conference which is starting on the Sunday & suspect I won't have the time to get down to London! Andrew Gray (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Geonotice

Very sorry it's so late! Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society.2FNeuroscience_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_the_Royal_Society.2C_June_2014 Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 00:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks (another day, another username!) Wiki CRUK John (talk) 13:24, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #112

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• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
• Development
  • Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
  • thePHPcc thinghy
  • Released DataValues Time 0.6
  • Add time support to QueryEngine
  • Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
  • Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
  • Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
  • Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
  • Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
  • Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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WikiIndaba geonotice

Please see MediaWiki talk:Geonotice.js#WikiIndaba error in coordinates. And look at the map. I guess they really want a box shifted to the east over the whole of Southern Africa.--Pharos (talk) 20:25, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

FYI, I'm experimenting now to get it to cover South Africa specifically.--Pharos (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-24

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• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [23]
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Wikidata weekly summary #113

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

• Discussions
  • Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
  • Discussion: Delete as a new user group
  • RfC: Refining "part of"
  • Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
  • Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
  • Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
  • Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
  • The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
  • Newest task forces: Sports task forces
• Development
  • Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
  • Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
  • Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
  • Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
  • Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
  • Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
  • Enabled data access for Wikiquote
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Tech News: 2014-25

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• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [45]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [46]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [47] [48]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [49] [50]
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