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3		Norfolk County Division (talk)						Add sources
52		Royal Sussex Regiment (talk)						Add sources
580		Pub (talk)						Add sources
116		BBC controversies (talk)						Add sources
36		Royal Irish Fusiliers (talk)						Add sources
20		18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Add sources
207		XXX Corps (United Kingdom) (talk)						Cleanup
41		Keri Hulme (talk)						Cleanup
19		72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders (talk)						Cleanup
10		33rd Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
42		I Corps (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
22		LR-87 (talk)						Expand
136		Atlas (rocket family) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
760		Bishop (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
38		Abkhaz–Georgian conflict (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
50		Climax (figure of speech) (talk)						Merge
35		Atlas-Agena (talk)						Merge
416		Stereotypes of Jews (talk)						Merge
22		Anglo-Portuguese Army (talk)						Wikify
83		504th Infantry Regiment (United States) (talk)						Wikify
31		256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) (talk)						Wikify
1		Arne Nunatak (talk)						Orphan
2		Anisometric verse (talk)						Orphan
1		Adelaida Avagyan (talk)						Orphan
9		45th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
4		36th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
2		Figueroa Point (talk)						Stub
5		Yorkshire County Division (talk)						Stub
9		42nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
6		Ares (missile) (talk)						Stub

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Great news - thanks! Small update made. Andrew Gray (talk) 18:37, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

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95th Regiment of Foot

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Tech News: 2014-43

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Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [1] [2]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [3]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [4]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [5]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [6] [7]

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Wikidata weekly summary #129

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

• Discussions
  • Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
  • hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
  • Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
  • New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
  • New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
  • Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
  • Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
  • Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Improvements to sitelink editing usability
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
  • Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
  • Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
  • Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
  • Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
• 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

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
477		Bebo (talk)						Add sources
32		Royal Hampshire Regiment (talk)						Add sources
26		15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (talk)						Add sources
21		56th (London) Division (talk)						Add sources
20		John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (talk)						Add sources
115		7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Add sources
224		Bhagalpur (talk)						Cleanup
9		F24 camera (talk)						Cleanup
82		Redman discography (talk)						Cleanup
70		Lancashire Fusiliers (talk)						Expand
112		Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt (talk)						Expand
61		Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (talk)						Expand
394		1st Armored Division (United States) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
190		History of the Church of England (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,745		SpaceX (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
2,084		Demographics (talk)						Merge
15		Dyslexia research (talk)						Merge
17		Chronica Hungarorum (talk)						Merge
32		79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Wikify
52		Xiaomi Mi Band (talk)						Wikify
2		London Youth (Federation of London Youth Clubs) (talk)						Wikify
12		Battle of Moscow order of battle (talk)						Orphan
0		2008–09 Second League of the Republika Srpska (talk)						Orphan
1		Alexander Shikov (talk)						Orphan
14		String Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák) (talk)						Stub
4		Hampshire County Division (talk)						Stub
10		9th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
3		232nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
5		Cymru Rydd (talk)						Stub
7		26th Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
  • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
  • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
  • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
  • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
  • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
  • Work on entity usage tracking
  • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
  • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
  • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
  • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
• 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

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Tech News: 2014-44

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Problems

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [8]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [9]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [10]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [12] [13] [14]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [15]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [16]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [17]

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35		East Surrey Regiment (talk)						Add sources
335		Passports of the European Union (talk)						Add sources
9		103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade (talk)						Add sources
15		6th Canadian Infantry Division (talk)						Add sources
89		Kitchener's Army (talk)						Add sources
46		5th Canadian Division (talk)						Add sources
70		Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (talk)						Cleanup
37		History of the Australian Army (talk)						Cleanup
15		104th Infantry Regiment (United States) (talk)						Cleanup
8		19th (Western) Division (talk)						Expand
10		23rd Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
8		31st Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
58		Military mascot (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
15		Principality of Lower Pannonia (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
38		Bar joke (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
19		Stream bank (talk)						Merge
150		Business models for open-source software (talk)						Merge
2		Aloposauroides (talk)						Merge
26		Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (talk)						Wikify
11		157th Field Artillery Regiment (talk)						Wikify
32		11th Infantry Regiment (United States) (talk)						Wikify
5		British Land Units of the First World War (talk)						Orphan
2		2011–12 Aris B.C. season (talk)						Orphan
2		Adriano Buergo (talk)						Orphan
3		31st Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
6		80th Infantry (Reserve) Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
12		8th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
8		Battle of Gemmano (talk)						Stub
4		Northumberland County Division (talk)						Stub
5		Burchard of Würzburg (talk)						Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #131

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
  • Wikidata II
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
  • Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
  • What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
  • Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
  • Random items without statements
  • Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
  • Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
• Development
  • Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
  • HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
  • Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
  • Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
  • Work on fixing XML dumps
  • Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
  • Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
  • Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
  • Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
  • Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
  • Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
• 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

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