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Tech News: 2014-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

• You can now subscribe to an Atom or RSS feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet Wikimedia every Monday. [1]
• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [2] [3]
• Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [4] [5] [6] [7]
• The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [8]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [9]

VisualEditor news

• If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [10] [11]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [12] [13]
• You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [14] [15] [16]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [17]
• Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [18] [19]
• The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [20] [21] [22] [23]
• You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [24] [25]
• You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [26] [27]
• It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [28]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [29]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
• There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [30]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
• You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [31]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [32]
• VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [33]
• VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [34]
• The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [35]
• CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [36] [37]
• You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [38]

Problems

• For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [39] [40]
• On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [41] [42]

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07:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New Beta feature: Hovercards show article previews
  • Typography refresh: A new look for text on Wikimedia sites
  • Draft annual plan published for feedback from the community and the FDC
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Picture of the Year 2013
  • Wikimedia Russia achieves changes to Russian copyright laws

About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 13:31, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [43]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [44]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [45]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [46]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [47]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [48][49]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [50] [51]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [52] [53]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [54]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [55] [56]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [57]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [58]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [59] [60]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [61] [62] [63] [64]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [65] [66]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [67]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [68] [69] [70]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [71]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [72]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [73] [74]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Logo position?

Hi Varnent, I saw your edit on the position of the Wikisource Community User Group logo and I was wondering if there are any reasons for placing it after the affiliates template?--Micru (talk) 08:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

To help make it easier to translate, but I've finished setting it up for translation, and moved it back above the affiliates template (that was accidental on my part). Thank you for asking instead of reverting - I do appreciate it.  :) --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 15:17, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Varnent, thanks for your explanation and for putting it back up :) Well, long ago I realized that reverts are totally unfriendly (even one could argue that they are a form of violence), since then I am committed to ask when in doubt and spread positive interactions. A long way to go :)--Micru (talk) 08:00, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comments on Wikimedia user group logos

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

The Affiliations Committee is requesting comments on proposed best practices for Wikimedia user group logos. The committee will seek community input until Saturday, May 24, 2014. After considering the community's input, the Affiliations Committee will publish on Meta-Wiki guidelines for Wikimedia user group logos.

There is already a standard format used by chapters, and that format is being applied to thematic organizations as well. Chapters and thematic organizations have also worked with Wikimedia Foundation legal in the past on custom logos. Wikimedia user groups may also create custom logos, and the new trademark policy allows for logos to be based off the community or Wikimedia Foundation logos. However, there remains a question of the best practice for standard user group logos.

Please make any comments or ask any questions on Meta-Wiki at Affiliations Committee/RFCs/Wikimedia user group logos.

Thank you - Wikimedia Affiliations Committee

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This Month in Education: May 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2014 Headlines Wiki Camp 2014 at Vanadzor EduWiki Conference in Belgrade 2014 Participation of "Servicio Social" students in Wikipedia grows at Tec de Monterrey Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in April 2014 Wikimedia Sverige: Meeting the educators Egyptian students and professors celebrate last term's accomplishments Articles of interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
  • Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
  • Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
  • The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
  • The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
• Did you know?
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
• Development
  • We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
  • Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
  • Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
  • Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
  • Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
  • Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
  • Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
  • Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
  • Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
  • Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
  • Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
  • More testing on simple queries
  • Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee/RFCs/Wikimedia user group logos page

Hi! I just want to point you that it was not the best idea to put section with comments and translatable text on the same page. Now after every comment added it needs to be marked for translation again otherwise it distracts TAs . Do you agree? -- Ата ^(talk) 11:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Fair point - let me contemplate that one a bit... --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 17:01, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

I may play around with this more - but I came up with a solution for now. The content of the page is now a subpage. The problem with this then is that the main RFC page itself isn't setup for language switching, so in other languages the comments appear via transclusion. I debated making the comments a subpage, but worried that would hinder some people from commenting. This is still not an ideal solution as the comments are now a subpage for non-English editors, but it's functional. Any ideas on how to improve upon this would be appreciated. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 17:09, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [75] [76] [77]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [78] [79]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [80] [81]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [82] [83]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [84] [85]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [86] [87]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [88]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [89] [90]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [91] [92]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [93]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Moving evaluation portal

Hello User:Varnent! Thanks so much for your continued work on the Evaluation portal. We wanted to let you know that we will be moving the Evaluation portal over to the Grants namespace next Tuesday, May 27th and we are working to make sure all bots, templates, etc. are prepped for the move. Please let us know if you have questions/concerns/comments. Thanks so much! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up, let me know if you all need help with anything.  :) --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 19:35, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Draft articles
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata office hour log
  • Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
• Play the Wikidata Game
• Development
  • jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
  • Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
  • Continued working on monolingual text data type
  • Continued making messages easier to understand
  • Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 16:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [94] [95] [96] [97]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [98] [99]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [100] [101]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [102]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [103]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [104]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [105] [106]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [107] [108] [109]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [110] [111]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from April 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Wikimedia Labs migrated to the new data center
  • New MediaViewer starts getting released on Wikimedia sites
  • New Executive Director and Chief Communications Officer
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Annual Wikimedia Conference joins Wikimedia organizations in Berlin
  • Wikimedians remember Adrianne Wadewitz and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
  • Wiki Education Foundation receives $1.39 million grant

About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 04:51, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Translation from non-English

Thanks for editing my translation brackets on EU policy/Studies/FoP1/. I didn't know this is valid only for translation where the source text is in English. Do you perhaps know if there's a way to request an German->English translation? Thanks! --Dimi z (talk) 11:00, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

You could send a request to the Translation committee. Basically finding a German translator to do an English version - and then it can be setup to use the translate extension. Hopefully at some point in the future the extension can support other source languages beyond English - but for now that is not a feature. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 18:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Categorize

Hello. Could you please categorize the template Affiliations Committee/Members/Bio? PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Done - apologies - yes - thank you for the nudge. --Varnent (talk)^(COI) 18:45, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #111

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [112]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [113]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [114] [115]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [116]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [117]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [118] [119]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [120] [121]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [122] [123]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [124]

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08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #112

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
• Development
  • Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
  • thePHPcc thinghy
  • Released DataValues Time 0.6
  • Add time support to QueryEngine
  • Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
  • Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
  • Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
  • Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
  • Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
  • Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [125] [126]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [127] [128]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [129] [130] [131]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [132] [133]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [134]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [135]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [136] [137]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [138] [139]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [140] [141] [142]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [143] [144]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [145]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue V, May 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Libraries' support continues and strengthens Czech Republic report: Workshop in Seifhennersdorf‎; WikiTown Přibyslav Germany report: GLAM on Tour touring; WMDE Data fueling station Hungary report: QRpedia projects in Hungary Italy report: Wikipedian in Residence and Open Data Government Hackathon Mexico report: Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art donates 357 photos; partnership with Museo Soumaya; Iberocoop edit-a-thon Netherlands report: Libraries; Wikidata & DBpedia; Wikipedians in Residence; Open Culture Data Norway report: 2 x GLAM edit-a-thons Sweden report: Award, competitions and Coat of Arms UK report: No trouble at t'mill; Assisting Metropolitan Police with image licensing enquiries; Wikimania is coming USA report: New Edit-a-thons; GLAM at Wikiconference USA; Activities in New York City Open Access report: WikiProject Open Access launched on the English Wikisource Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Please test the new feature Special:PageMigration

As a Google Summer of Code Intern, I have been working on the Mass Migration tools project for Wikimedia. We are now ready with a minimal working product. The tool helps translators and translation administrators import the old translations into the Translate Extension.

An instance of the same has been set up on labs. You can find some useful instructions on the main page.

Please test the tool and report bugs/suggestions using the link provided on the main page itself. You can have a look at the tracking bug to check already reported bugs.

Looking forward to hearing from you! Cheers. BPositive (talk) 14:33, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #113

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

• Discussions
  • Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
  • Discussion: Delete as a new user group
  • RfC: Refining "part of"
  • Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
  • Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
  • Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
  • Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
  • The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
  • Newest task forces: Sports task forces
• Development
  • Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
  • Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
  • Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
  • Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
  • Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
  • Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
  • Enabled data access for Wikiquote
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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This Month in Education: June 2014

This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2014 Headlines Wikipedia Education Project in Uruguay Sanothimi Campus celebrates 12 years of Nepali Wikipedia Wikipedia Primary School Project Israeli Ministry of Education and Wikipedia collaboration: teachers and students will be trained to write Wikipedia articles Wikimedia Serbia teacher education course accredited by the Republic of Serbia Geneva education department produces two films on Wikipedia editing by students Busy 2014 for Education at Wikimedia UK, so far Getting ready for WikiCamp 2014 Armenia News from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in May 2014 Czech senior citizen program supported by a WMF grant Wikimedia Sverige: Classrooms and ambassadors Wiki Education Foundation attends WikiConference USA Update on the education portal Articles of interest in other publications Highlights  · Single page edition To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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