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Wikidata weekly summary #137
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- 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
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
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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 software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+ForCmd+F. [4] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7] [8]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [9] [10]
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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #138
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- 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
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 software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [11]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [12]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [13]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [14]
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (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.
Software changes
- There are no technical changes this week.
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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #139
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
- new RfC: CoI editing
- Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
- Events/Blogs/Press
- We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
- The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- wikidata4research4all
- There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
- Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
- The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
- Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
- Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
- Development
- Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
- Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
- 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
This Month in Education: December 2014
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
- Uruguay: Wikipedia Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
- Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Wikipedia with great success
- Serbia: First Wikipedia ambassador at the University of Belgrade
- Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
- UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
- Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs
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Wikidata weekly summary #140
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
- Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
- We had a meetup with nine people:
- set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
- Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
- For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
- Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
- Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
- Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
- More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
- Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
- Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
- Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
- Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
- Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
- We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
- 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
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 software changes
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [15]
- You can now use the
{{!}}magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [16]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
- A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a
☀(Sun) character. This is now fixed. [17] - The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [18]
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [19] [20] [21]
- The
thumboption is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [22]
Future changes
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #141
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion
- Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
- Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
- IRC office hour happened (log)
- Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
- MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The development plan has been updated and expanded
- Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
- Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
- Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
- Development
- Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
- Worked on redesign of header area
- Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
- Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
- Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
- 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!
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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[24] [25]
- Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [26]
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [27]
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18:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #142
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
- Open RfAs: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
- Past: Meetup in Cambridge
- Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
- Wikidata - a year in numbers
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
- The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
- Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
- You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
- Development
- More work on header section redesign
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
- Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
- Implemented entity change subscription service
- 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!
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 software changes
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [28]
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [29]
Future changes
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [30]
- The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [31]
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: [January 2015]
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
- Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
- India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
- Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
- Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
- Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
- Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
- Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
- Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
- Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more
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Wikidata weekly summary #143
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
- Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
- The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
- Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
- 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!
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
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [32]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [33]
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [34] [35]
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #144
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
- Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- Mix'n'Match got a face lift
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- RStats client for Wikidata
- Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
- Did you know?
- Development
- Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: January 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 software changes
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}to transclude a section with its title. [36]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [37]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [38]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [39]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [40] [41] [42]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [43] [44]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [45]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [46]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [47]
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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #145
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
- Development
- <3
- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
- 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!