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Wikidata weekly summary #217

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
  • Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
  • Upcoming: OpenSym
  • Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
  • An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
  • Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
  • Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
  • TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
  • Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
  • Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
  • There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
  • Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
  • Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
• Development
  • Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
  • Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
  • Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
  • Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
  • Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
  • Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
  • Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
  • Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
  • Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

• Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [1]
• Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [2]
• In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [3]

Problems

• On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [4][5]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
• Special:Log now has a help link. [6]
• The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [7]

Future changes

• User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [8][9]
• Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [10]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #218

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
  • First image, good image?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
  • TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
  • The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
  • The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
  • Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
  • StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
  • Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
• Development
  • Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
  • A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
  • More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
  • Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
  • More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
  • Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 July 2016

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

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Tech News: 2016-30

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

• Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
• Last week's rollback is now documented. [11]

Problems

• Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [13]
• Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [15]

Future changes

• The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [16]
• Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [17]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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my favorite wikipedia quotes " Thanks for reviewing Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society Hi Alternativity, Thanks for reviewing Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society. I really just created the article because I saw the Society red linked in the article you created about Leonard Co. The article about him was quite interesting and well done. I hope I did not step on your toes by starting to create the article about the Society. Please feel free to expand the society article if you are so inclined. I have done a bit of research on the society and will be adding a few more references in the coming days. I do enjoy working in collaboration with others! ciao!!! Carriearchdale (talk) 08:46, 16 June 2014" "(UTC)

Hi Carriearchdale! :D Thanks. :D I have to disagree about the Leonard Co being "well done" at this point because it's only about a tenth of the quality it should be. Hehe. But thank you. :D Thanks for getting to work on the society article. I've got a huge "to create" list still to get to and I'm afraid the society page isn't very high on my priority list yet. So I'm WAY glad someone's working on it. Hm. One suggestion, btw: are you active on Tagalog Wikipedia? Because there's a lot of work that needs doing there, making articles for native Philippine species. Anyway. Thank you for your work. Knowledge is an important weapon in the movement to protect Philippine biodiversity. And every helping hand is a step forward. :D Happy editing! -- Alternativity (talk) 11:29, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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Memorable quotes

one of my favorite well written wikipedia quotes

rebuttal I agree with your concern about the burn out on editing. I do not agree that comments on ANI pages should exclude new editors. I also do not agree that that I have significant disregard for BLP. I have done exactly two edits in Ronan Farrow page (the biography is about Ronan, BTW, not Woody), the first edit was supported by an administrator on the BLP page as appropriate, and the second was to precisely respond to an experienced editors request. I have gotten ZERO feedback on any BLP violations except ad-hominem attacks. I am primarily a medical editor who is trying to learn the skills of controversial editing in an area with less importance (and zero importance to me, but I intend to see it through to its logical end, which could be as simple as an experienced editor with a calm voice saying: "bob, do X", which I will instantly). My position is well researched and your accusation is unfounded. As for my returning the favor to Carrie of reading the record and commenting, as we had previously tried to work together in another article. We have some established good faith, with exists broadly within Wikipedia editors, so can hardly be considered bad. I have read the transcript, and gave my opinion. You have chosen to attack the messenger with no assumption of good faith. I assume your good faith in wanting a good encyclopedia, but perhaps you might want to listen and see if there is a good argument being made by Carrie or I, and dispute the content on the basis of balance rather than assumptions. I doubt that you will find two more earnest editors than Carrie or I on Wikipedia, and if you want to attract more earnest editors Wikipedia should find ways to engage each of us on content rather than false accusation, misrepresentation, POV, or what you think our intent is. Wikipedia will die if it cannot find new voices and chooses to descend into a vacuous testosterone pit.Bob the goodwin (talk) 20:57, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-24

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 (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [18] [19]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [20] [21]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [22] [23] [24]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [25] [26]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [27]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [28]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [29] [30]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [31] [32]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [33] [34] [35]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [36] [37]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [38]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your review of Instrument myopia

Thanks!Robert P. O'Shea (talk) 04:25, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

You are quite welcome! Thanks for the note. I really appreciate it. It is really touching when an article writer takes a moment to say thanks. ciao!!! Carriearchdale (talk) 04:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for your feedback on Carol Reardon Article! SamanthaMes (talk) 15:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for your encouragement! It's an important effort and balances out some of the more obviously touristy stuff in Brooklyn--Aichik (talk) 18:07, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

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