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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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [1]
- There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [2] [3]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
- It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [4]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [5]
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [6]
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15:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)
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Board election translations
Dear Varnent , I made some changes at Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2015/Candidates. I am sorry for spending your time. Please note your work is very much appreciated. All the best, Taketa (talk) 05:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
- You are very welcome, and it is no worry. :) You are welcome to make any other edits during the remaining open window, and we will make it work on our end. :) Thank you for your candidacy! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 05:23, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Barnstar
For your very active work on the Elections Committee. --Pine✉ 01:45, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 04:46, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #157
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331
- New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
- Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
- MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
- Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
- Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
- The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
- Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
- The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
- The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
- Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
- Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
- Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
- Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
- Continued working on RDF export
- More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
- Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
This Month in GLAM: April 2015
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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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [7] [8] [9]
- You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [10]
- The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [11] [12]
Problems
- There was a problem that caused slow editing. [13]
- Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
- You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [15] [16]
- You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [17]
- When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [18]
- When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [19]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015
- New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge
- Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City
- The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO)
- Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia
- Introducing the new Wikipedia store
- A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform
- Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 12:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 12:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help
Wikidata weekly summary #158
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
- Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
- Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
- Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
- Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
- Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
- New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
- Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
- Development
- Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
- Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
- Improvements to calendar handling
- More work on RDF export for query service
- Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
- Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, 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 can watch a video about the new graph tool.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
- References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [20]
- You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [21]
- The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [22]
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [23] [24]
- UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [25]
- A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [26]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a technical meeting in France this week.
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15:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Varnent,
I am planning to translate WMF Board candidates statements into Ukrainian, and I hope to do it before the deadline this time in order to have them published together with other translations. However, this page is quite misleading as each candidate has two statements, and Translate extension does not make a distinction between long and short statements. Is it possible to put those messages that will appear in SecurePoll into a separate group to avoid the waste of time for translating that will not be displayed there? Thanks — NickK (talk) 19:04, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I did not get any answer so I translated the entire page. There are many redundancies, but I hope my work was not useless. Please proceed with publishing Ukrainian translations — NickK (talk) 04:39, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- I have checked https://vote.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:SecurePoll/vote/512&uselang=uk and I have noticed that only half of messages were moved to the voting server, but only the first 11 candidates (from Housemeddin Turki to Phoebe Ayers) are in Ukrainian, the remaining being in Russian. In addition, names are also in Russian, e.g. I do remember translating Phoebe Ayers as Фібі Аєрс here, however, her name is displayed in Russian as Фебе Айерс. Could you please update these translations or tell me whom I should contact to have this updated? Thanks — NickK (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- I will be doing the next translation batch updates tomorrow morning on my travels home from WMCon. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. Could you please try to do it faster. The notification received a very negative feedback because of being half Russian and half Ukrainian: a user said that he does not want to vote because he made efforts to translate the text (which is true) but he did not understand why his translations were not published.
- I understand that Ukrainian, unlike Russian, is not a priority language for WMF, but please note that we still have a community of some 2500 active users who are unlikely to vote if the text remains half translated. Thanks — NickK (talk) 07:38, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Please keep in mind that we are volunteers doing this task, and that we are working as quickly as we reasonably can. Setting up this one set of translation is not the only request or task we have right now. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 10:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, I do understand that you are volunteers. Sorry for writing too much, but the translation infrastructure is simply not transparent this year.
- I have also found some gender errors (see Talk:Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015#Gender forgotten, for example, in Russian Maria Sefidari is a man who founded LGBT wikiproject), please fix them either. I could not find where to fix them, they are not available on Meta.
- Sorry for writing to you again, I would be glad to write this in a more specific place, but I can't even find who else can publish these translations. Thanks — NickK (talk) 20:44, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Anyone on the committee is able to update the translations on VoteWiki. I am not sure what you mean by the infrastructure not being transparent this year. We are utilizing the same infrastructure in place for several elections, and have more than tripled the number of translations typically available for the elections. I am mindful of these errors, but our focus remains on removing barriers to actual voting before we work on making the translations better. I recognize the errors are not good to have, but the feedback has been that they are making it more accessible for folks, they get the general info they are looking for, and we are already seeing 3x more participation from voters than at this same time in 2013. They will never be perfect, there will likely always be some grammar errors, it is unlikely all 200+ languages will be included in the near future, and while we investigate unexpected technical errors and work on making as many translations available as possible, we will not likely be doing as much correcting of the translations on VoteWiki. I have already nudged the WMF to consider how to make the quality better in the future, but that will require some time to investigate and consider. I recognize that is not a very satisfying answer, but I wanted to give you some insight into how this happened and why it may not be getting resolved as quickly as you were hoping. There is also the practical issue that some of us attended the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, which has left some of us unusually busy these past few days. That was, unfortunately, a problem we could not avoid given the need to have results ready far enough out from Wikimania to allow for travel arrangements to be made for those elected. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 20:56, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Under transparency I mean that there is a huge gap between professional translations and volunteer translations this year. I can even say that these translations were prepared from reader prospective, while voters are editors:
- Professional translations were made in languages with large populations, but not with large communities. Polish community has over 4,000 active users but did not get a translation, while Swahili community has 70 active users and did get a translation. I know that Poland is in Global North and Africa is in Global South, but there should be better priorities.
- Professional translations were done by people who are unaware of Wikimedia movement and thus contain serious mistakes (Maria's statement in French says she founded English Wikipedia). It is great for readers who have no idea of Wikimedia, but voters do know what Wikimedia is, and can seriously thinks that it is a candidate who does not understand our movement, not the translator.
- Professional translations are not easy to edit. That's quite anti-wiki: you have a wiki page without "edit" button, and without a talk page to suggest changes. That is not as transparent as wikis, as this is basically the only page where one cannot find how to edit.
- Infrastructure for volunteer translations is poor. I could not get which paragraphs belong to statements that will be published and which not, so I had to translate the entire page, which included even wikicode of signature of Francis Kaswahili. Links from the banners point to banner translations, not to statement translations. There is no translation link on the voting page.
- To sum up, yes, it is great for newbies (who meet the threshold) whose native language was selected by WMF and who will not be surprised by the fact that Maria Sefidari founded English Wikipedia. No, it is not great for those whose language was not selected by WMF and who understands Wikimedia movement better than translators do. I can make some suggestions how to do this system better, but that's probably more appropriate for Post mortem.
- And please do publish Ukrainian translations. I do want to promote the vote in Ukrainian Wikipedia village pump, but I can't do it because it is half translated and our Village pump is currently discussing the translation, not the election. Thanks — NickK (talk) 21:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- As I've said, we will publish the Ukrainian translations, but it won't do them much good if we don't sort of the technical errors first. Please be patient. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 22:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for publishing Ukrainian translations! Could you please also fix the gender errors I have listed at Talk:Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015#Gender forgotten? It is pretty bad that we are fighting the gender gap and translating statements by female candidates using male language... Thanks! — NickK (talk) 21:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- As I've said, we will publish the Ukrainian translations, but it won't do them much good if we don't sort of the technical errors first. Please be patient. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 22:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Under transparency I mean that there is a huge gap between professional translations and volunteer translations this year. I can even say that these translations were prepared from reader prospective, while voters are editors:
- Anyone on the committee is able to update the translations on VoteWiki. I am not sure what you mean by the infrastructure not being transparent this year. We are utilizing the same infrastructure in place for several elections, and have more than tripled the number of translations typically available for the elections. I am mindful of these errors, but our focus remains on removing barriers to actual voting before we work on making the translations better. I recognize the errors are not good to have, but the feedback has been that they are making it more accessible for folks, they get the general info they are looking for, and we are already seeing 3x more participation from voters than at this same time in 2013. They will never be perfect, there will likely always be some grammar errors, it is unlikely all 200+ languages will be included in the near future, and while we investigate unexpected technical errors and work on making as many translations available as possible, we will not likely be doing as much correcting of the translations on VoteWiki. I have already nudged the WMF to consider how to make the quality better in the future, but that will require some time to investigate and consider. I recognize that is not a very satisfying answer, but I wanted to give you some insight into how this happened and why it may not be getting resolved as quickly as you were hoping. There is also the practical issue that some of us attended the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, which has left some of us unusually busy these past few days. That was, unfortunately, a problem we could not avoid given the need to have results ready far enough out from Wikimania to allow for travel arrangements to be made for those elected. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 20:56, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Please keep in mind that we are volunteers doing this task, and that we are working as quickly as we reasonably can. Setting up this one set of translation is not the only request or task we have right now. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 10:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- I will be doing the next translation batch updates tomorrow morning on my travels home from WMCon. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- I have checked https://vote.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:SecurePoll/vote/512&uselang=uk and I have noticed that only half of messages were moved to the voting server, but only the first 11 candidates (from Housemeddin Turki to Phoebe Ayers) are in Ukrainian, the remaining being in Russian. In addition, names are also in Russian, e.g. I do remember translating Phoebe Ayers as Фібі Аєрс here, however, her name is displayed in Russian as Фебе Айерс. Could you please update these translations or tell me whom I should contact to have this updated? Thanks — NickK (talk) 13:10, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
bn translation
Please correct this translation: [27] - replace "মেটা ইউজার পাতা" with "মেটা ব্যবহারকারী পাতা". Thank you --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 14:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- Done - thank you! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:14, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Varnent, could you please also fix the nl translation of my candidacy please. My nomination text now says "Wikimedians" which in Dutch should be "Wikimedianen". Also "De komende jaren" should be "de komende jaren" without the capital letter, like it is in my English text. "bovendien" should be "bovenal" (bovendien has a completely different meaning). There needs to be a dot behind the sentence "Ik geloof in minder bureaucratie" and please change my name from "Taketa]" to "Taketa", and the link to my talk page from "talk:Taketa talk" to "overleg". I checked and see that my signature is messed up in every single language. All the best, Taketa (talk) 05:09, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
- I see you are active. If you have access to vote.wikimedia, please fix this. Thank you, Taketa (talk) 05:29, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- We are not actively translating signatures, but I will get to the other edits when I am able. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 06:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- It does not need to be translated. Simply displaying it properly would be fine. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 06:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- Partially Done, see here. Trijnsteltalk 13:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- It does not need to be translated. Simply displaying it properly would be fine. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 06:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- We are not actively translating signatures, but I will get to the other edits when I am able. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 06:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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
- VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [28]
- Some Labs tools had issues last week. [29] [30]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [31]
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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #159
- Events/Blogs/Press
- State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
- A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
- Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
My picture
The photo I used on my candidate statement (and which has been on my Wikipedia user page for two years) was queried by a third-party on specious grounds in Wikicommons (c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Ifyoustare.jpg) after I posted my statement, and to my dismay has been removed. This leaves a red file name on my statement instead of the photo. I have just sought to replace this with a different photo but the page is closed to editing. These circumstances prejudice my candidature - can you please do something to help? Thanks, --Smerus (talk) 21:12, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- It looks like it has been restored - but yes - if there is a photo you would like us to use instead, please let me know and we can switch. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 00:08, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Prompt action by User:Green Giant at Commons rescued the pic, so should be OK now - many thanks for your response - Best, --Smerus (talk) 07:18, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi! This bad way - combine one string from different messages. This is hardly localised. For useful translation, this should be one string T:152:
| 2015 vote count intro = <translate>
As of 26 May 2015, there have been 2,500 votes cast* in the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections. There are 54,216 eligible voters.</translate>
(instead 144, 152, 153 in Template:WMF elections translations) --Kaganer (talk) 21:51, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
- We were trying to avoid having to update the translations template everyday for various reasons. If you have a suggestions on a better way to structure the sentence, I am open to that. I may have an idea I can try. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 00:06, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Different languages have different ways of constructing phrases for various cases. This "message-kit" may be useful for English, but inapplicable for Russian or Hebrew. There is no ideal solution, but is normal working scheme: combine your text from whole short phrases (or parts, but with the meaning). Current example may be combined from:
As of {{#dateformat:26 May 2015}},
there have been {{formatnum:2,500}} votes cast*
in the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
- In this way, each message is meaningful and translatable (vs current way, where "As of" and "there have been" is untranslatable into Russian without related text. Template Template:WMF elections translations needs to documenting for explain all exists "use cases".
- But one problem remains: if in English this example is formed as "1 2 3", then in Russian this will be "1 3 2". Therefore, I propose to go back to my original proposal for include whole phrases into translation, with replacing only variable values (numbers, dates, etc.) to "tvar" code.
- --Kaganer (talk) 15:58, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- I changed the structure of the sentence yesterday, let me know if that works better. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:04, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Okay, this change is more translatable. But needs documenting! --Kaganer (talk) 16:07, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed, we have bad at documenting the translations due to the very tight time window for the elections. My hope is that is addressed soon. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:12, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Okay, this change is more translatable. But needs documenting! --Kaganer (talk) 16:07, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- I changed the structure of the sentence yesterday, let me know if that works better. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:04, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Different languages have different ways of constructing phrases for various cases. This "message-kit" may be useful for English, but inapplicable for Russian or Hebrew. There is no ideal solution, but is normal working scheme: combine your text from whole short phrases (or parts, but with the meaning). Current example may be combined from:
Some bugs
- Please fix one bug: Template:WMF elections/Countdown3 contains code
{{ls2|WMF elections translations|there are}}
, but Template:WMF elections translations is not contains "there are" section (only one "there have been"). --Kaganer (talk) 16:31, 28 May 2015 (UTC) - (fixed) Another problem: some languages requires genitive form of the month names. Instead
{{#dateformat:28 May 2015}}
should be{{#time:j xg Y|28 May 2015|{{CURRENTCONTENTLANGUAGE}}}}
. --Kaganer (talk) 16:52, 28 May 2015 (UTC) - Also need exclude asterisk from "vote count asterisk" string (and add into template code as nowiki). --Kaganer (talk) 17:04, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Count of days, hours, eligible voters etc. requires using "PLURAL" rules for related texts (in some languages). This requires that such numbers were available to the translator in a simple format, without thousand separators. --Kaganer (talk) 17:23, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #160
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
- Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
- Wikidata stats have been updated
- Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
- WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
- Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
- Development
- Recovering from hackathon
- Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
- Testing of the query service
- Fixed styling issues with entity selector
- Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
- Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
- Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, 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.
Problems
- Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [32]
- Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [33]
- Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [34] [35]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [36]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Meta Collaboration of the Month for June 2015: Events!
Events (discuss) has been selected as the first-ever Meta Collaboration of the Month for June 2015! Join the fun there and in the discussions.--Pharos (talk) 19:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2015
- Tunisia: Rachidia music school celebrates 80 years of love and art by editing Wikipedia
- Mexico: Five new classes begin experimenting with Wikipedia
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- China: Chinese students commemorate deceased philanthropist Run Run Shaw
- Argentina: Editathon for young students to edit articles about their school
- Mexico: Maria enjoys editing Wikipedia as her community service
- Global: Registration for Wikimania Education Pre-Conference in Mexico City is now open!
- Sweden: Wikimedia conference 2015: better understanding for Wikipedia in Education
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: School editathons, medical research, Jimmy wales and new Wiki
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Wiki Loves Pride
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!
- What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
- When? June 2015
- How can you help?
- 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
- 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
- 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)
Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.
Thanks, and happy editing!
I know you know, but consider this invite a formality. :) --Another Believer (talk) 04:30, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Any prediction on the results timing?
Just curious whether you would make a prediction on when the results will be released. Feel free to ignore this message. Cheers, --denny (talk) 16:25, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- As soon as the certification process is complete. The current step is not in the committee's hands - so I'd rather not predict when others will complete a task. ;) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
- Wise. Thanks! --denny (talk) 17:52, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #161
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity statistics were updated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
- Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:
wikibase.resolvePropertyId
andwikibase.entity:getBestStatements
. - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.