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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

Tech News: 2016-05

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

  • Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [1]
  • Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [2][3]
  • Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [4]

Changes this week

  • The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [5]
  • Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [6][7]
  • The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [8]
  • The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [9][10][11]
  • The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [12][13]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [14]


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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-06

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Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [15]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [16]
  •   RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [17]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [18][19]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [20][21]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [22][23][24]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

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350   Television network (talk)   Expand
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106   Station identification (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
32   Student governments in the United States (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
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34   Weiquan movement (talk) Merge
225   Heinrich Schliemann (talk)   Merge
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This Month in GLAM: January 2016

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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Tech News: 2016-07

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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [25]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [26]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [27][28]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [29][30]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [31]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [32]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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  Frostburg State University (talk) Cleanup
  KVII-TV (talk)         Cleanup
  Sinclair Broadcast Group (talk)   Expand
  KOLR (talk)       Expand
  Sports teams in Virginia (talk)         Expand
  Puma SE (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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  Tree squirrel (talk) Unencyclopaedic
  Nutrition (talk) Merge
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  Richard Marsland (talk)         Wikify
  Naturism (talk) Wikify
  IOS jailbreaking (talk)   Wikify
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  Anita De Sosoo (talk)           Orphan
  Acura Pharmaceuticals (talk)           Orphan
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  KPMT-LP (talk)           Stub
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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

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Tech News: 2016-08

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

Problems

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [35][36]

Changes this week

  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [37]

Meetings

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2016.
 
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Wikidata weekly summary #197

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  Mount Royal University (talk)     Cleanup
  White Latin Americans (talk) Expand
  Premier League (talk) Expand
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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

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Tech News: 2016-09

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

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [38][39]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [40][41]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [42]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [43]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [44]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [45]
  •   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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #198

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