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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #178

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

Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [3]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [5]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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31   Federal Signal Corporation (talk)         Add sources
36   Anti-frogman techniques (talk)     Add sources
43   Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States (talk)   Add sources
91   Air horn (talk)       Add sources
14   Sporting Club (talk)           Add sources
7   Jamestown High School (Virginia) (talk)     Cleanup
22   Hampton Roads Transit (talk)   Cleanup
19   KSEE (talk)       Cleanup
688   North American Soccer League (talk) Expand
21   Civil defense by country (talk)       Expand
21   History of the College of William & Mary (talk)   Expand
269   2013 Seattle Seahawks season (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
6   APNEL (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
46   Port security (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
45   Shadism (talk) Merge
136   Smartglasses (talk) Merge
293   Discrimination based on skin color (talk) Merge
338   Fox News Channel controversies (talk) Wikify
3   2013–14 Edinburgh Rugby season (talk)   Wikify
143   Haunting Ground (talk)         Wikify
1   John L. Koprowski (talk)         Orphan
2   Alberta Culture Days (talk)         Orphan
1   Federal Signal Model 2 (talk)           Orphan
70   Underdog Kids (talk)           Stub
4   WWTW (talk)         Stub
5   Žiežmariai (talk)       Stub
132   Justin Tipuric (talk)         Stub
4   Warwick Line (talk)           Stub
5   WTWV (talk)         Stub

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This Month in GLAM: September 2015

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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Tech News: 2015-42

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 database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [6]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [7]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [8]

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 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #179

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7   Remember Me This Way (film) (talk)           Add sources
87   WTTA (talk)       Add sources
15   Nobody's Diary (talk)         Add sources
296   Old Navy (talk)         Add sources
128   Hogan Lovells (talk)     Cleanup
288   Can't Hardly Wait (talk)     Cleanup
9   Pete Phipps (talk)           Cleanup
379   Google Wallet (talk)     Expand
43   Anti-piracy measures in Somalia (talk) Expand
187   Windows Runtime (talk)     Expand
4   KFIZ-TV (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
970   Piracy (talk) Unencyclopaedic
28   Colonial Parkway (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
17   Pop! The First 20 Hits (talk)         Merge
97   University of Winnipeg (talk)     Merge
617   Digital media (talk)   Merge
3   KISA-LD (talk)         Wikify
2   Steven Fogel (talk)           Wikify
6   Nu Kappa Epsilon (talk)           Wikify
4   Kemp Little (talk)           Orphan
1   Mint Motion Pictures (talk)           Orphan
1   Wiggin LLP (talk)           Orphan
4   Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer) (talk)           Stub
6   Gordon Martel (talk)           Stub
3   WDYR-CD (talk)         Stub
13   Graeme Morrison (talk)         Stub
8   Dave Lewis (rugby union) (talk)           Stub
5   Alan Wace (talk)           Stub

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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in September 2015.
 
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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #180

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

Tech News: 2015-43

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

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The   icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The   icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [11]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [12]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [13]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [14]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [15]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [16][17][18][19]

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 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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7   NewsWatch (branding) (talk)         Add sources
24   Richard Blade (talk)           Add sources
4   Fort Wayne Fever (talk)     Add sources
21   WOAI (AM) (talk)       Cleanup
10   Radiotelevisione svizzera (talk)     Cleanup
72   Frostburg State University (talk) Cleanup
85   The Meredith Vieira Show (talk)         Expand
154   Languages of Iran (talk)       Expand
12   KJTL (talk)         Expand
309   Stephen Wolfram (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
667   Puma SE (talk) Unencyclopaedic
129   S-Bahn (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
22   Multiplex (television) (talk)           Merge
397   MCI Inc. (talk)     Merge
7   Samuel Mathews (talk)         Merge
161   Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (talk)   Wikify
1   Jerry Sexton (talk)           Wikify
3   Rory Sutherland (rugby union) (talk)           Wikify
12   Alarms on submarines of the United States Navy (talk)       Orphan
2   Harcos Laboratories (talk)         Orphan
6   Sea Marshal (talk)           Orphan
3   KVDF-CD (talk)         Stub
3   WPGF-LD (talk)         Stub
3   Wayne Matle (talk)           Stub
103   GNU toolchain (talk)       Stub
8   Capture of Oechalia (talk)           Stub
48   Walt Powell (talk)         Stub

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #181

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Tech News: 2015-44

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  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [20]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [21][22]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [23][24]
  •   Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [25]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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692   Ceuta (talk) Add sources
95   Salisbury University (talk) Cleanup
7,715   Naturism (talk) Cleanup
81   Mount Royal University (talk)     Cleanup
1,304   Motorola (talk) Expand
1   Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr (electoral district) (talk)       Expand
231   Long Range Acoustic Device (talk)       Expand
35   Old Azeri language (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
20   Kanan Makiya (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
281   Pi Kappa Alpha (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
362   Heinrich Schliemann (talk)   Merge
40   Disability hate crime (talk)       Merge
44   Alarm device (talk)           Merge
7   William & Mary Pep Band (talk)       Wikify
296   Logos and uniforms of the New York Mets (talk) Wikify
103   Corporate headquarters (talk)       Wikify
3   Sentry siren (talk)           Orphan
2   Vagn F. Flyger (talk)         Orphan
1   Scott Donohue (talk)           Orphan
3   Tampa Bay Hellenic (talk)       Stub
1   Billy Brown (Australian footballer) (talk)           Stub
19   Jonathan Thomas (talk)           Stub
7   Cinaethon of Sparta (talk)           Stub
2   Beautiful Tragedy (Lisa Brokop album) (talk)           Stub
15   Azadeh Moaveni (talk)           Stub

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