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Wikidata weekly summary #34
- Development
- Added DirectSqlStore to client so that it can directly access the repository database, and not require creating any tables on the client
- Bug fixing on the client extension, and preparing it for first deployment
- Less edit conflicts due to a smarter conflict detection
- Better recent changes comments on the client
- Clean up on the backend for entity artefacts
- The statement UI enables to create statements and displays them, but has still a few glitches
- The client now accesses the data on the server directly, and the data is not replicated anymore
- Added a number of profiler calls
- Special:Contributions displays labels now
- User preference on the client to hide Wikidata edits
- Statements can be created and saved now
- Statements are properly styled in JavaScript and non-JavaScript version
- Improved JavaScript part of the templating engine
- Improved entity selector widget
- Client:Watchlist Selenium Tests
- Client: RecentChanges Selenium tests
- Added DataValues, DataTypes, jQuery.ui QUnit tests to Selenium
- Some PHPUnit test fixes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Linuxday
- Open Sunday after Wikimedia Deutschland’s membership assembly
- SWIB
- foss.in
- upcoming: intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Give the demo system a try
| Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited | |
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- How did I made it onto the list for this? --Guerillero | My Talk 21:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 December 2012
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
- Featured content: The play's the thing
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
- Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability
- WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
Wikidata weekly summary #35
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org with a lot of bug fixes and a new Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel (all changes here)
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses Wikidata (click “edit links” at the bottom of the page), and we are working to enable the synchronization of changes to test2 and display links from the repository
- Added wbsetqualifier API module
- Added wbremovequalifiers API module
- New JavaScript wb.Api now used for labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks
- Improved Selenium tests and PHPUnit tests
- Selenium tests now independent from ULS
- Selenium tests for statements UI
- Existing statements can be edited now
- Filtering anons and Wikidata in RecentChanges on client now works correctly
- Added extra checks on client RecentChange save point to avoid duplicate entries
- Started an experimental branch with API methods for claims
- Link to Commons Media displayed for Snak values of related data type
- Improved styling of statements in JavaScript mode
- Improvements in templating engine
- Started working on adding Statements to existing section of Statements
- Set up a fresh dev server for testing
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Foss.in
- Intro and Q&A in Bangalore
- WhereCamp Berlin
- Upcoming: Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management, Karlsruhe
- Announced next office hours
- Still looking for people/projects to join us for the mass collaboration assembly
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New mockups for phase 2: 1 and 2
- New admin notice board
- “How to Edit Wikidata” presentation by Sven
- “Working With MediaWiki” has been released. First book to mention Wikidata!
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on phase 2 mockups
- Code on one of these
- Have a look at Wikidata:Contribute
This Month in GLAM: November 2012
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I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat (talk) 08:46, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Perhaps when it is not the last two weeks of hell I will do this. --Guerillero | My Talk 21:31, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- I certainly understand priorities. I appreciate the consideration you've given this request. I wish you the best, particularly during this phase of your academic sojourn. Best regards, My76Strat (talk) 05:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Wanted to create an article for Jennifer Finney Boylan
Hi! Forgive me if I'm approaching this awkwardly. . .just this month I decided I wanted to start doing some editing work on Wikipedia after being a long time reader (so yup, I'm a n00b!) Anyway, I'd like to create a Wikipedia article for Jennifer Finney Boylan, who's an American transgender author and activist. I noticed, however, that there was previously an article on her which you deleted about a year ago, so I just wanted to talk to you before I did it and make sure I avoid whatever problems might have been in the previous article. I want to make sure if I write a new article it doesn't get deleted. Anyway, thanks for any help you can provide!Rebecca 00:42, 10 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Picture of a Sunny Day (talk • contribs)
- Hey! I have no issue with you restarting the article about Jennifer Finney Boylan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). The reason that the article was deleted was the fact that it was plagiarized from another webpage. There was not a question about the subjects notability. Best of luck. --Guerillero | My Talk 01:10, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!
Thanks for getting back to me, Guerillero, and sending me those resources about starting up on Wikipedia. I appreciate your help. Rebecca 02:46, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!
The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.
The Signpost: 10 December 2012
- News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
- Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
Wikimedia DC Holiday Party and Wiki Loves Monuments Exhibition
Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.
The festivities will take place on Friday evening from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM in the Zenger Room on the 13th Floor of the National Press Club, located on 529 14th Street NW, near Metro Center. There will be meat and vegetarian appetizers as well as a cash bar with specially reduced drink prices all night long. In addition, we will be exhibiting the finalists of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest at the event.
Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 04:32, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #36
- Development
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found here
- Updated demo system
- http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses http://wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden)
- Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point.
- It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example)
- Links are now protocol-relative (bugzilla:42534)
- No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only
- Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser
- Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API
- Removed many singletons to reduce global state
- Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities
- Improved settings system
- Improved options of ValueFormatters
- Improved options of ValueParsers
- Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values
- Fixed serialization of SiteArray
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again
- Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks
- Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests
- Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module
- Moved the demo system to a larger server
- Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes
- Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path)
- A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”)
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- WhereCamp
- Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe
- upcoming: 29C3
- upcoming: Office hours
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
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This Month in Education: December 2012
Proposed Deletion for Category Freemasons
Hi, as you were a contributor to a previous DRV on the Freemasons category there is another deletion discussion on this. JASpencer (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2012
- News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
- WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
- Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
- Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
- Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
- Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors
Wikidata weekly summary #37
- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla:42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
- Updated demo system
- Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
- Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
- Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
- Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
- Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
- Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
- Bug fixes in the client
- Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
- Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
- Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
- Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
- Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
- Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Give input to the representing values discussion
- Hack on one of these
Have a great holiday season!
The Signpost: 24 December 2012
- WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
- Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
- Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
Wikidata weekly summary #38
- Development
- Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
- Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
- Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
- Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
- Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- right now: 29C3
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these