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Wikidata weekly summary #213
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
- Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
- Past: HackHPI
- Past: ELAG (slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
- Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
- Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
- Development
- Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
- Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
- Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
- Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
- Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
- Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
- You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
- Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
- Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #214
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
- New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
- We are looking for people who work on list articles.
- You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
- Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
- Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
- First beta release of StrepHit
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
- Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
- Development
- Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
- More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
- Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
- Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
- Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
- Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
- Started concept work for automated list generation
- Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
- 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.
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
- Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [1]
Changes this week
- The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [2][3]
- Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [4]
- When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Imelda Marcos
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Imelda Marcos. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
|
The Civility Barnstar |
| In appreciation of the great work you do in keeping your eye on disputes with an unswervingly level head, and inevitably maintaining a courteous disposition. Thank you! Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Iryna Harpy! I try my best. clpo13(talk) 16:48, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Carbrera (talk) 04:45, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- Just to clarify, this claim is not against you, but rather the IP user that we unfortunately dealt with earlier. Thanks! Carbrera (talk) 04:46, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Precious
"useless without images"
Thank you for quality articles such as Camano Island State Park and Arthur Nock (useful: with image and infobox), for uploading images, welcoming users, fighting vandalism and censorship, - all this for more then ten years, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for the appreciation, Gerda! clpo13(talk) 16:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- You are welcome, if you don't mind that it's from the cabal of the outcasts ;) - possibly need to change that name, now that a member was proclaimed Wikipedian of the Year --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Abusive redirects
Hey clpo13! Looks like you figured this out already, but just wanted to make sure you know that abusive/vandalism redirects can be tagged for speedy deletion (per WP:G3) rather than having to go through the whole RfD process. GorillaWarfare (talk) 21:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
- Cool, wasn't quite sure about speedying redirects. Thanks! clpo13(talk) 21:05, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 June 2016
- News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
- Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
- Featured content: From the crème de la crème
- In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [6]
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [7]
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [8]
Problems
- The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [9][10]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [11]
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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [12]
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [13]
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [14][15][16]
- From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [17]
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [18]
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #215
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
- TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
- Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
- SQID now shows references (example)
- INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
- PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
- Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
- Development
- The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
- You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
- Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
- Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
- Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
- Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
- 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.
Please comment on Talk:Singapore
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Wikidata weekly summary #216
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
- The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
- Wikidata auf der GPN
- Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
- Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
- Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
- Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
- Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
- Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
- Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
- Development
- More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
- Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
- Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
- Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
- Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
- Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
- 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.
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
- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [19]
Changes this week
- The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [20]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Sedgley
Thanks for keeping on top of this article. I've revdel'd a number of the revisions due to the content and if the vandalism continues I'll consider protection. Nthep (talk) 14:58, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- No problem. Looks like it's been going on a while. I'll keep an eye out as well. clpo13(talk) 17:22, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Minor Edits
Clpo13,
I appreciate you informing me on this matter. Will keep in mind for future references. Look forward to contributing additional material and maintaining Wikipedia's positive reputation on providing high quality and non-biased accurate information.
SalemResearch 21:18, 28 June 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolomonSalem (talk • contribs)
Wikipedia email re NewspaperArchive signup
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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News
Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News
  Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. |
Talk back
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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
- A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [21][22][23]
- Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [24][25][26]
- Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [27][28][29]
Problems
- On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [30]
- Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
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 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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.
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
Please comment on Talk:Abkhazia
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Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri
Sorry, please help me to undo this article. Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohd Sarim Ashrafi (talk • contribs) 16:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Great
so what's your response? 174.19.218.191 (talk) 19:15, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
- Commented on Talk:Jill Stein. clpo13(talk) 19:20, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. It is frustrating when one has to wait for two fricking weeks without even a courtesy reply, and the only way to get attention for a reasonable concern is resorting to vandalism. 174.19.218.191 (talk) 19:24, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Correction of comments
Hi Mr.Clpo13, I am Arman ad60. I made the comments in the Persian talk pages. I had removed them because my English is not very good. I had requested Mr. Jimbo Wales and he accepted it. But I don't like it as they still remain there as tags. People may still search them and see the messages. I don't understand where is the problem in removing them. They have already been deleted. What is the problem if I remove them altogether.
But yes, if you don't think I should be allowed to change the messages then you can show the messages up. I think it is better than remaining there as tags. I am giving you the permission to do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.58.205.145 (talk) 22:35, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Archiving of comments
Mr. Clpo thank you very much for archiving the talk page. Can you please achive the talk pages of the Parthian and Sasanian empire. I had made some comments there as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.58.205.145 (talk) 23:10, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Disruptive?
How is removing one link being disruptive? Also who the hell am I supposed to ask to get content removed? 2600:8800:5100:38E:9D4E:1776:E4CB:1285 (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
- There's a long-term pattern of disruptive editing regarding that link. As I said on Talk:White savior narrative in film, the best thing to do is to start an WP:RFC regarding the appropriateness of the link. clpo13(talk) 15:56, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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. [31]
- Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [32]
- In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [33]
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. [34][35]
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. [36]
- 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. [37]
Future changes
- User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [38][39]
- Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [40]
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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
- 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.
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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. [41]
Problems
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [42]
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. [43]
- 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. [44]
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. [45]
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. [46]
- Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [47]
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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #219
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
- Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
- Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
- Development
- Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
- We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
- When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
- Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
- Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
- 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.
The Signpost: 21 July 2016
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
- 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
ANI Discussion
I've started a discussion at ANI regarding an email OTRS apparently received regarding WikiWiz, which you mentioned in a previous ANI discussion. -- Gestrid (talk) 05:33, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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
- A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [48]
- The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
- Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [49]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #220
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Repository Fringe
- Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
- Upcoming: CCBWIKI
- Localités au fil de l'eau
- WDQ, obsolete?
- BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
- You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
- You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
- There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
- Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
- You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
- IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
- WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
- Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
- Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
- Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
- Development
- Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
- Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
- Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
- Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
- Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
- Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
- 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.
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Thank you...
Thanks for your concern earlier about my IP exemption application, even if it was a false alarm; I definitely understand if it looked like our Dakotan friend got to me and I didn't mean to scare you (I didn't know exactly how the IPX process looked until then). Nate • (chatter) 02:21, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for editing the format and deleting the list in the Emily Bear aricle.I did not create this but I did not want to because I did not feel entitled to do this.
All the informations I posted are really central. As I wrote on the Cullum talk page I could post informations, facts, photos , spam topping the size of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Jackie Evancho combined ;) but that was not my goal.
We should have all the same standards ;)
Greeting (Eifelochse (talk) 05:30, 29 July 2016 (UTC))
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
- In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon (
) to a tray icon (
) for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [50]
Problems
- If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [51]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [52]
- On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [53]
- When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [54]
- The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [55]
- When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [56]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
- A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [57]
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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Thank you
... for the quote of the day: "I don't see any logical reason to make information harder to access." - I was trained - the hard way - to stick to two comments per discussion ;) - I had learned before that some people need to have the last word, which unfortunately includes myself. - Problem in the quote is the word "logical". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 August 2016
- News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
- Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
- Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
- Featured content: Women and Hawaii
- Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
- Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [58]
- Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [59]
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [60][61]
Changes this week
- The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [62]
- Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [63]
- In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [64][65]
- The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [66]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [67]
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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #221
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
- Past: WikiConference India 2016
- Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
- Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
- Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
- Livin’ on the edge
- Communes orphelines?
- Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
- Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
- WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
- Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
- Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
- 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
- Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
- Job opening at TIB
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
- Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
- Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
- Development
- Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
- Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
- Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
- Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
- Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
- Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
- Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
- Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
- Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
- Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
- Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
- Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
- Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
- 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.