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Wikidata weekly summary #174

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
  • Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
  • Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
  • A new version of Kian has been released
  • The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
  • A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
  • >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
  • You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
  • Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
• Development
  • Worked on search on the mobile site
  • Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
  • We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
  • Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
  • Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
  • Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
• 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.

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Tech News: 2015-37

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 now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [4]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5][6]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7]
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [8][9]

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 September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [11][12]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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955		Ceuta (talk)						Add sources
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194		Compressed air (talk)						Cleanup
65		St. Mary's College of Maryland (talk)						Cleanup
6		Pete Phipps (talk)						Cleanup
77		The Meredith Vieira Show (talk)						Expand
9		KJTL (talk)						Expand
110		Braking distance (talk)						Expand
473		Low-carbohydrate diet (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
5		KFIZ-TV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
17		Anti-Mongolianism (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
20		Passion (music) (talk)						Merge
336		MCI Inc. (talk)						Merge
175		Race war (talk)						Merge
2		KISA-LD (talk)						Wikify
159		LogMeIn (talk)						Wikify
3		Rory Sutherland (rugby union) (talk)						Wikify
3		Exante diet (talk)						Orphan
1		Arnold de Jode (talk)						Orphan
1		Andrea Chiopris Gori (talk)						Orphan
3		Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer) (talk)						Stub
9		Graeme Morrison (talk)						Stub
7		Alan Wace (talk)						Stub
16		CJC-1295 (talk)						Stub
25		Von Neumann neighborhood (talk)						Stub
9		Capture of Oechalia (talk)						Stub

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

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• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2015-38

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 now use the Wikidata query service. [13]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [14]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [15][16]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [17]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [18]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

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 September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [19]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [20]

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Wikidata weekly summary #175

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
  • Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
  • Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
  • Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
  • Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
  • DSS Wikidata Editathon
  • A simple way to write Wikidata bots
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
  • We passed 70M statements.
  • Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
  • Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
  • The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
  • Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
  • You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
  • New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
  • Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
  • Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
    • announcement
    • examples
    • How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata
  • Wikidata now supports units
    • announcement
    • properties with units already created
    • Properties with units waiting for creation
    • example
  • Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
  • Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
  • Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
  • Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
  • New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
• Development
  • Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
  • Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
  • Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
  • Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
• 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.

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31		Disability hate crime (talk)						Merge
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61		Logos and uniforms of the New York Mets (talk)						Wikify
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66		Frostburg State University (talk)						Wikify
5		Charlotte Colbert (talk)						Orphan
14		Alarms on submarines of the United States Navy (talk)						Orphan
4		Sea Marshal (talk)						Orphan
2		Wayne Matle (talk)						Stub
15		Jonathan Thomas (talk)						Stub
13		Lloyd Williams (rugby union, born 1989) (talk)						Stub
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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015

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• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

• Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

• News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

• In the media: Is there life on Mars?

• Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

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Tech News: 2015-39

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

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [21][22]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [23][24][25][26]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [28]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [29]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [30][31]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [33]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [34]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [35]

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 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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Wikidata weekly summary #176

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon in Dresden
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
  • Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
  • A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
  • Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
  • Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
  • The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
• Development
  • Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
  • Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
  • Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
  • Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
  • Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
  • Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
  • Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
• 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.

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82		Athenian festivals (talk)						Cleanup
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18		Kanan Makiya (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
30		Old Azeri language (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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48		Alarm device (talk)						Merge
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11		Cinaethon of Sparta (talk)						Stub
12		Azadeh Moaveni (talk)						Stub
120		Eli Walker (talk)						Stub
0		Billy Brown (Australian footballer) (talk)						Stub
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Tech News: 2015-40

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 UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [36]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [37]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [38]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [39]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [40]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [41]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [42]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [43][44]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [45]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [46]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [47]
• 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 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #177

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: IRC office hour (log with summary of past 3 months, OSM integration and more)
  • Upcoming: code.talks
  • Upcoming: Wikiconference USA
  • Wikidata-Items schnell auf der Kommandozeile nachschlagen? Mediawiki APIs hacken
  • A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
  • Wikidata timeline is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
  • Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
  • nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
  • The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
  • 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
  • Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: 1, 2, 3
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
• Development
  • You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
  • Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
  • Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
  • Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
  • Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T50389)
  • Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (phabricator:T107595)
  • More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
• 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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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