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Wikidata weekly summary #220

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

• Discussions
  • Notability of items for templates
  • One or more property examples?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Repository Fringe
  • Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
  • Upcoming: CCBWIKI
  • Localités au fil de l'eau
  • WDQ, obsolete?
  • BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
  • You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
  • You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
  • There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
  • Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
  • You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
  • IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
  • WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
  • Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
  • Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
• Development
  • Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
  • Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
  • Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
  • Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
  • Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
  • Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:33, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

• A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [1]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 August 2016

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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Tech News: 2016-32

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

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [3]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [4]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [5]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [6]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [7]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [8]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [10]

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #221

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
  • Past: WikiConference India 2016
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
  • Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
  • Livin’ on the edge
  • Communes orphelines?
  • Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
  • Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
  • WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
  • Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
  • Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
  • 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
  • Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
  • Job opening at TIB
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
  • Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
  • Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
• Development
  • Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
  • Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
  • Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
  • Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
  • Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
  • Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
  • Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
  • Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
  • Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
  • Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
  • Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
  • Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [11]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [12]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [13][14]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [15]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [16]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [17][18]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [20]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #222

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
  • History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
  • ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
  • You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status

    

    Structures in London on Histropedia

  • The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
  • Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
  • New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
  • Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
• Development
  • mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
  • Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
  • Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
  • Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
  • Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
  • Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
  • Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
  • Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
  • Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:27, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 August 2016

• News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses

• Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica

• In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

• Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks

• Traffic report: Olympic views

• Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)

• Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case

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Tech News: 2016-34

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

• The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [21]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [22]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [23]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [24]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [25]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [26][27]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [28]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #223

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
    • Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
    • Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
    • Refining "part of"
    • Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
    • Wikidata:Notability overhaul
    • RfP voting eligibility
    • Standards for property proposal discussions
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
  • August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
  • Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
  • All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
  • Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
  • COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
  • Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
  • WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
  • Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
• Did you know?

  

  Popular surnames among humans

  • Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
  • Query examples:
    • A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
    • Common occupations of heads of state (source).
    • Murderers by region in France (source).
    • Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
    • Popular surnames among humans (source).
    • Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
    • Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
    • Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
    • Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
    • Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
    • Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
  • New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
• Development
  • Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
  • Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
  • Menus are now internationalised on the query service
  • Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
  • Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
  • Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
  • Worked on the interface stability policy
  • Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
  • Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #224

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

• Discussions
  • We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
  • Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
  • Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
  • GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
  • Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
  • Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
  • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
  • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
  • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
  • Query examples:
    • RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
    • Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
    • Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
    • Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
    • 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
    • All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
    • Drug-disease interactions (source)
    • Nicknames of serial killers (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
    • Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
    • Network of color (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
  • Newest gadgets:
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
  • Newest database reports:
  • New feature/gadget requests:
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
  • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
  • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
  • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
  • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
  • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
  • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)

• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:41, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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 mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [29]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [30]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [31][32]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)