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The Signpost: 30 July 2014
- Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
- Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
- News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
- Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
- Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
- Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
Wikidata weekly summary #120
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Gabbe
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
- Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: published in
- Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
- Development
- Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
- More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- More work on the monolingual datatype
- Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
- Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- 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
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
- Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [1]
- You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [2] [3] [4]
- You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [5]
- New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [6] [7]
VisualEditor news
- You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [8] [9]
- VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [10]
- Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [11] [12] [13] [14]
- Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [15] [16] [17] [18]
Future software changes
- You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [19] [20]
- All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [21]
- Pages in the
Translations:namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [22]
Problems
- Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [23]
- Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [24]
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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 06 August 2014
- Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
- Traffic report: Ebola
- Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
- Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
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
- Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [25]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [26]
VisualEditor news
- Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [27]
Future software changes
- Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [28] [29] [30]
- If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [31] [32]
- You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [33] [34]
- An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [35]
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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #121
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
- Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
- Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
- Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
- First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
- Userboxes
- Did you know?
- Development
- Attended Wikimania and Socrates
- Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
- Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
- 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
This Month in GLAM: July 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114
- Discussions
- Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
- Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
- New task forces: WikiProject Movies
- Development
- Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
- Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
- Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
- We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
- Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
- Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
- 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
The Signpost: 13 August 2014
- Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
- Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective
- Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
- News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
- In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
- Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
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 (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
- There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [36] [37] [38]
- You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [39] [40]
- You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [41]
- You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.
Wikidata
- After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [42]
- After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [43]
Problems
- There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [44] [45]
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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Request an article
I don't know how to request an article Can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 15:23, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- Have you looked at the instructions on the main requested articles page? WikiPuppies bark dig 15:26, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- But what to do after clicking on 'edit', where to Give a brief description for the proposed topic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 15:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- You had the right idea before, you just removed everyone else's requests. After clicking on the edit link under "Software engineering", add a new line with the following code:
- * [[Article name]] - description
- ...filling in the article name and description as needed. (Don't remove the [[ ]] bits or the *.) Then push save and it should be done. Hope this helps! WikiPuppies bark dig 15:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- But what to do after clicking on 'edit', where to Give a brief description for the proposed topic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 15:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I'm not getting it properly. Can you do it for me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 15:49, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not a mind-reader...I don't know what you're requesting.
If you want to practice until you "get it properly", you can try the sandbox. WikiPuppies bark dig 15:56, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
I was asking should I tell you what's my request, if you you can do that for me.. ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 15:59, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Autodesk Navisworks
Autodesk Navisworks. The topic "JetStream (software)" is there but currently Autodesk sells the software with the name "Autodesk Navisworks". Will you send the request? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.248.42 (talk) 16:41, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Did you reply after my this msg: 'Autodesk Navisworks. The topic "JetStream (software)" is there but..' I think my ip changed.. So didn't received the msg (If you replied).. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.91.120.15 (talk) 10:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 20 August 2014
- Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
- WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
- Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
- Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
Wikidata weekly summary #123
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
- "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
- It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
- Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
- Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
- Did you know?
- Development
- Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
- Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
- More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
- 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
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
VisualEditor news
- There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [46]
- You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [47]
- If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [48] [49] [50]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
- After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [51]
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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 27 August 2014
- In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
- News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
- Traffic report: Viral
- Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!