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… lack icon attribution. Please add links to the icons' file description pages or replace them by public domain ones. Thanks, FDMS 4 00:00, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for pointing that out. I have added attributions to the alt tags. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 00:15, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
This Month in Education: July 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
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- Global: Wikimania 2015: education highlights
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- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Wikimania, Wikipedians in residence and public domain value
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Wikidata weekly summary #169
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
- Enable Flow on Wikidata?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
- PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
- Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
- 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
- Interested in art movements? Check out this
- Did you know?
- Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode
- Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
- Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
- Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
- Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
- Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
- Fixed the counting of references
- Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
- Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
- 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
- The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
- MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
- Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]
Problems
- There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
- We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [10]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Before deleting, did you ensure there are no incoming links either on this or on other sites? --Nemo 16:48, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- I actually moved it and did not completely delete it - so a redirect can be placed if there is an issue. However, I did not notice any active uses that seemed to be an issue. I just double checked and did fix one link from a now mostly unused page that I overlooked before. Most prior references were actually wrong, in part why this rename was done. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 16:51, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, if you say so. --Nemo 17:02, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell anyway - but always happy to have anyone else double check. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:03, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok, if you say so. --Nemo 17:02, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #170
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
- Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
- @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
- Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
- Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
- Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
- The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
- The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
- Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
- Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
- Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
- Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
- We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
- 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
- MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [11]
- The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [12]
- You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [13]
- You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [14]
- It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [15]
- JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [16] [17]
- You can no longer use
document.writeon Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [18] [19]
- The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [20]
Problems
- More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [21]
- Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [22]
- Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [23]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
- UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [24]
- You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [25]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [26]
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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2015
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LangCat vs #translation:
Hi! {{Langcat}} is obsolete and will be gradually replaced to {{#translation:}}. Please use {{#translation:}} magic word for new uses. --Kaganer (talk) 02:28, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for pointing that out. I noticed that recently, but obviously had already extensively used it by then. I have since stopped using the old template. I also updated the documentation for langcat to note the correct procedure, and updated the edittools for Meta-Wiki to use the new method. I hope that helps. Thank you again for letting me know. I appreciate the notes on how to edit better. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 02:49, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in July 2015.
- Konkani Wikipedia goes live
- “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
- Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
- ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT
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Wikidata weekly summary #171
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- cooperation between free content projects
- A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
- Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
- Upcoming: SmartDataConference
- A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
- WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
- Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
- See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
- List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
- You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
- SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
- Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
- Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
- 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
- Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
- Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
- Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
- References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
- First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
- Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
- Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
- The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
- Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
- Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
- 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
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27] [28] [29]
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [30]
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [31] [32]
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [33]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [34]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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- Hi Varnent, just wanted to thank you for volunteering to participate in a committee and to help us out during our pilot period. Wolliff or I will be in touch about how and where we could use your help in the coming weeks. Take care, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 23:43, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Updating scripts
Hello Varnent. I edited your global.js and common.js to update deprecated functions.
I noticed you have a copy of the regex menu framework in User:Varnent/Scriptsmod/Regex menu framework.js with a few customisations. The regex menu framework is obsolete and unmaintained, so I'm helping users migrate to the much newer TemplateScript (which includes all its features). Do you still need that page? —Pathoschild 03:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- Excellent - thank you! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:40, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
#translation
Err, thanks for using the parser function I bribed a developer into getting merged ;), but why not ask a bot instead? --Nemo 20:32, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Mostly because there are some oddball uses here and there. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 20:33, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Thank you
Hello Varnent. I'd like to say 'thank you' for the huge ammount of work you do everyday here at Meta. I (and I guess many others) appreciate it and I thought I should let you know. Hope that you don't mind. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 20:03, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you! I appreciate that. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 02:45, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #172
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
- Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
- New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
- New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
- EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
- Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
- Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
- Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
- More work done on Unit Selector widget
- Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
- Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
- More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
- 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
- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [35]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Flood
Hi. Your edits are still being displayed on Recent Changes, despite having the flood flag set. Maybe something in AWB that makes override the flag? —MarcoAurelio 14:33, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- Very strange - thank you for the heads up. I stopped, closed the application, and started things up again - seems to be working. My best guess is that I set the flood tag after I had logged in via AWB (oops) - so perhaps it needed to be logged out and back in? Not sure, that isn't necessary for web based edits...hmm... In any case, seems to be working again, thank you again for the heads up. :) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 14:36, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #173
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
- Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
- First version of units is ready for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
- Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
- Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
- Development
- Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
- Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
- Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
- API breaking change coming soon
- API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
- Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
- Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
- Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as
mw.wikibase.labelwhich use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885) - Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
- Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
- Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
- Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
- Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
- Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
- Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
- 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.
Request for approval: Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria
Dear Gregory,
I write to notify you that Wikmedians in Nigeria had applied as affiliates of the WMF under the User group "Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria". In lieu of this, we look forward to your approval and endorsement. Warm regards! Wikicology (talk) 20:39, 31 August 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.
Recent changes
- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [37][38]
- The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [39]
- VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module
ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Useext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.initinstead. [40] - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [41]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [42]
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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
This Month in Education: August 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
- Sweden: The benefits of teaching with Wikipedia broadcasted on Swedish National Radio
- Mexico: Summer term ends with great success and Fall begins at Tec de Monterrey
- Newsletter: On its third birthday, a retrospective of This Month In Education and proposed changes to the publication process
- Newsletter: Call for volunteers - This Month In Education
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, Mexico and Australia
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Request for approval: Wikimedia MA User Group
Hi Varnent,
We, Wikimedians in Morocco, have filled out the form to create a user group in our country, for that, I want to announce that we were looking forward to a recognition from you, to join the WMF. Cordially, --Reda benkhadra (talk) 12:58, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for marking L&E Toolkits for translation!
Hi Varnent,
Thanks for helping out marking the page for translation.
I am wondering about marking categories for translation. I saw you marked all the categories on that page with . It works ok for some categories, but not for others. I hadn't seen this markup before, so I thought I'd ask you: is there anything we can do to make the categorization work? 
Thanks for your help and support! María (WMF) (talk) 18:04, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- @MCruz (WMF): Whoops! Sorry about that. Typo in my coding that I didn't catch. How embarassing. Ah well, thank you for the ping. This is what I get for not drinking coffee before wikicoding. ;) --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:07, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Varnent:, thanks for that!
María (WMF) (talk) 18:16, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Varnent:, thanks for that!
Last call for WMF grants feedback!
Hi, this is a reminder that the consultation about Reimagining WMF grants is closing on 8 September (0:00 UTC). We encourage you to complete the survey now, if you haven't yet done so, so that we can include your ideas.
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Wikidata weekly summary #174
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
- Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
- Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
- A new version of Kian has been released
- The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
- A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
- >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
- You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
- Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on search on the mobile site
- Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
- We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
- Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
- Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
- Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
- 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 can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [43]
- A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [44]
- You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [45]
Problems
- There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [46]
- The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [47][48]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
- The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [49]
- The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [50][51]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [52]
- Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [53][54]
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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in August 2015.
- Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
- The Hunt for Tirpitz
- My life as an autistic Wikipedian
- Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
- Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
- When cultural heritage gets a digital life
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This Month in GLAM: August 2015
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