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This Month in GLAM: September 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2014 Headlines From the team: GLAMout global Africa report: Uganda Museum Austria report: Open Science aboard the MS Wissenschaft in Vienna Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg France report: National archives upload Germany report: World Café; GLAM on Tour; Museum für Naturkunde releases 15 million insect items; MS Wissenschaft Italy report: A new Wikipedian in Residence; Lyon Declaration Mexico report: 50 hours of art in Wikipedia Netherlands report: Atlas Ortelius Norway report: The National Library of Oslo Spain report: Edit-a-thon at Biblioteca Nacional; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: From industrial sound to books and libraries UK report: September, a month for the Arts USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Special story: Identifying images from Commons found in the wild Open Access report: Open Access Reader; New Topic Page; Open Access File of the Day suspended Calendar: October'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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Wikidata weekly summary #128

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Nikosguard
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
  • Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
  • Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
• Development
  • Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
  • More fixes for the switch to HHVM
  • Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
  • Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
  • Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:32, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2014)

Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America. Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Central America Previous selections: Steak • International airport Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC) •

Ellie Taylor

It's a stub. Fancy changing the PC to semi at least. Widefox; talk 00:05, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [1] [2]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [3]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [4]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [5]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [6]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [7]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [8]

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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User Luxure

Hello, Tom Morris. You have new messages at Luxure's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hello,

My recent editing using STiki was an accident because the program lagged/slowed on me, and it was not responding to my input, and as such, I just continued to press the vandalism button until it changed, and then I realised that it changed rapidly, but I could not revert my edits because a strong storm went through where I live last night and there was a blackout.

Sorry for the inconvenience,

Luxure (talk) 23:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Nabozny v. Podlesny

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2014)

Inside an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ice hotel Previous selections: Central America • Steak Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC) •

Going AFK; BRB

Just a fair warning for talk page visitors: I am undergoing some fairly tough and stressful events in my personal life and also undergoing some medical treatment. For some period lasting at least three weeks, and possibly a fair bit longer, I shall be contributing very little (or nothing) to Wikipedia so I can focus my leisure time on self care, self love and self preservation.

Wikipedia can be stressful to participate in and that is a source of stress I could do without at the moment. If any of my recent editing or admin actions need discussing, I may be unresponsive. Feel free to find another admin and ask them to review any recent activity.

I do not wish to discuss the details of my personal life on here, but I shall simply note: whatever happens, I'll get through it and be stronger afterwards. In my absence, try and be kind to one another. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [9] [10]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [11]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [13]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [14] [15]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #129

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

• Discussions
  • Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
  • hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
  • Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
  • New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
  • New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
  • Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
  • Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
  • Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Improvements to sitelink editing usability
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
  • Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
  • Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
  • Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
  • Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
• Development
  • Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
  • Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
  • When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
  • Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
  • Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
  • Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
  • Work on entity usage tracking
  • Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
  • Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
  • Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
  • Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:28, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2014)

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first national park Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: National park Previous selections: Ice hotel • Central America Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 27 October 2014 (UTC) •

Tech News: 2014-44

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

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [16]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [17]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [18]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [20] [21] [22]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [23]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [24]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [25]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Alpha order at Recent Deaths, please

Hi Tom. You're a very experienced editor and administrator. So, it surprised me that you put this entry at the top of the list, rather than where it belonged, in alphabetical order by surname (K for Knowles), between Collins and Love. I've fixed it now, but in future please keep this in mind. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:29, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that, JackofOz. If I missed it, other people are likely to as well, so I've added it to the edit notice. —Tom Morris (talk) 23:10, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Tom. I know such a message used to appear at the top, but somehow it's been eroded away. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 23:19, 27 October 2014 (UTC)