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The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
- In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
- Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
- Featured content: Featured menagerie
- WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #191
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
- Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
- 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.
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
- Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [1]
- You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [2]
Problems
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3]
Changes this week
- The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4]
- New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5]
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6][7]
Meetings
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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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]- The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9][10]
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11][12]
- The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF
- Editorial: We need a culture of verification
- In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
- Op-ed: Transparency
- Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
- Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
- News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #192
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
- Did you know?
- Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
- 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.
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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [13]
- Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [14]
Changes this week
- The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [15]
- MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [16]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
- In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
- Traffic report: Danse Macabre
- Featured content: This week's featured content
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 follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [17][18]
- Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [19]
Changes this week
- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [20]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [21]
- The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [22]
- Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [23]
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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #193
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [24] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [25] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
- Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
- Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- 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.
The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
- In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
- Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
- Traffic report: Death and taxes
- Featured content: This week's featured content