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Tech News: 2018-43

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

 
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ChinaKnowledge.de

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Hi Donald, thanks for your work expanding Gongsun Shu. However, I'd be very cautious with using ChinaKnowledge.de as a source. It's a useful site, but I've seen so many errors at the site I wouldn't consider it a reliable source. On its short Gongsun Shu article, for example, he got Tian Rong's name and some years wrong and more seriously, incorrectly says that Gongsun Shu failed to conquer Hanzhong. I've fixed the article with much more reliable sources such as de Crespigny and the Cambridge History of China. Cheers, -Zanhe (talk) 19:57, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

@Zanhe: thank you for fixing those mistakes and thank you for warning me about that website, I always try to check all information I add by searching extra for it online but unfortunately with broad Chinese history the information is rarely found in English online so this was the only website I could find that even mentioned Gongsun Shu. As I don't have that many history books about general Chinese history in my collection and most of them just write about the major dynasties I rarely edit non-monetary Chinese history articles for precisely that reason. (note that I do have a large amount of books related to Chinese numismatics but I wouldn't use those to write about the rest of Chinese history.)
Have you encountered more errors with that website in the past? As I know that it's quite a popular reference here at the English-language Wikipedia. Could you advise me some alternative websites or do you mostly only use books? --Donald Trung (talk) 06:28, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I've seen numerous errors on Ulrich Theobald's website over the years, although I can only recall the most recent incidences, see this and the ensuing discussion. It's still the best English website for Chinese history out there, but unfortunately it's just not good enough. I recommend searching Google books first (using both pinyin and Wade-Giles spellings, the latter still quite popular in academic publications), and only use ChinaKnowledge as a last resort. While we're at it, I also recommend http://reftag.appspot.com/, which makes formatting Google books refs a cinch. -Zanhe (talk) 19:48, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Zanhe, I will take your advice. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018

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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
 
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Wikidata imaged

Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.

 
Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night

It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.

 
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Tech News: 2018-44

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

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  •   The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [1]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [2]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [3][4]

Meetings

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
    • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
    • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
    • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
    • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Editing News #2—2018

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Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

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Tech News: 2018-45

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

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [7]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
    • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
    • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
    • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
    • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile
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