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Books & Bytes, Issue 6
The Wikipedia Library
- New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
- TWL does Vegas: American Library Association Annual plans
- TWL welcomes a new coordinator, resources for library students and interns
- New portal on Meta, resources for starting TWL branches, donor call blitzes, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar news, and more
Wikidata weekly summary #112
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
- Development
- Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
- thePHPcc thinghy
- Released DataValues Time 0.6
- Add time support to QueryEngine
- Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
- Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
- Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
- Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
- Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
- Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2014)
File:Elmo-cockpit xltn.jpg Hello, Tom Morris.
The Tickle Me Elmo toy was based on the Sesame Street character Elmo
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Amazon Basin • Film criticism Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC) • |
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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 (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
- You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [1] [2]
VisualEditor news
- You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [3] [4]
- The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [5] [6] [7]
- You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [8] [9]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [10]
- You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [11]
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [12] [13]
- You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [14] [15]
- Templates containing
<ref>or<references>tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [16] [17] [18] - You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [19] [20]
- Hovercards will no longer flicker. [21]
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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2014
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Leeds meetup
Hello! I don't know if you're aware but there is a wikimedia meet up in Leeds this Saturday (14 June) if you're interested. Hopefully you can make it. Regards IJA (talk) 17:33, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Hi IJA: Leeds is a bit of a long way for me, I'm afraid. Hope you get lots of attendees though. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:00, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Cheers anyway mate IJA (talk) 18:01, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Also if you're thinking of any future York meet ups, let me know. Regards IJA (talk) 18:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- IJA, I think you might be confusing me with someone else. I've never been to a York meetup. I've never been to York. I'm in London. But thanks for the offer. —Tom Morris (talk) 20:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- I must apologise, I've blatantly lost my marbles! IJA (talk) 22:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- IJA, I think you might be confusing me with someone else. I've never been to a York meetup. I've never been to York. I'm in London. But thanks for the offer. —Tom Morris (talk) 20:25, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Also if you're thinking of any future York meet ups, let me know. Regards IJA (talk) 18:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
- Cheers anyway mate IJA (talk) 18:01, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
AFD on Enterprise Architect
Please see the Request for Undeletion on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Enterprise_Architect_.28software.29
As stated by other contributors to the above request - this is a notable piece of software with global usage in very large organizations. However both contributors to the AFD deemed it “non-notable”. What is the process to have this reviewed or re-posted? {Leggattst (talk)}
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Leggattst (talk • contribs) 06:39, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Leggattst. Wikipedia articles need to show that there are multiple reliable sources covering the topic in detail. I've looked at the deleted version of the article and also done some checking on Google and I can't find enough sources to satisfy notability. If there are sources which are reliable, in-depth and independent, it'd be helpful if you could point me to them. I'm happy to move the article into Draft state and then when you think the article is ready, it can be submitted through articles for creation so another pair of eyes can look over it and check the sources. Does that seem reasonable? —Tom Morris (talk) 09:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Tom Morris, Under References the first ten entries are from independent authors. CSIRO (Australia), Object Management Group OMG (US), IPG insurance (New Zealand), Doug Rosenberg Iconix (US), Frank Truen - Cephas (US), Phil Chudley - Dunstan Thomas (UK). A couple of these are published on the Sparx site, but other independant sources for these possibly could be set.
Do you think there needs to be more independent papers or case studies? There are others available.
Some years ago there was a bibliography listing books written about the application. This was removed for reasons that a bibliography was not relevant. Would you prefer something like that is restored?Leggattst (talk) 07:15, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #113
- Discussions
- Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
- Discussion: Delete as a new user group
- RfC: Refining "part of"
- Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
- Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
- Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
- Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
- The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
- Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
- Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
- Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
- Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
- Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
- Enabled data access for Wikiquote
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2014)
 The old buildings of the National Library of China house historical and ancient books, documents and manuscripts
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Tickle Me Elmo • Amazon Basin Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 16 June 2014 (UTC) • |
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This Month in Education: June 2014
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:12, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Reminder
- You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
- You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
- You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [22]
- When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [23] [24]
- You can now add and edit
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}and__DISAMBIG__in the page settings menu. [25] [26] [27] [28] - The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [29] [30] [31]
Future software changes
- Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [32]
- You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [33]
- You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [34] [35]
- It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [36] [37]
- Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [38]
- The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to
Special:MostTranscludedPages. [39] - An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
- You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [40]
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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Follow up on AFD on Enterprise Architect
Hi Tom,
Any follow up on the AFD on Enterprise Architect?
Please see the reply to your queries above. Leggattst (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 05:29, 18 June 2014 (UTC)