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Tech News: 2015-01

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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16:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

• Featured content: A bit fruity

• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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GOCE 2014 report

Guild of Copy Editors 2014 Annual Report Our 2014 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; Review the election results; Membership news; Changes around the Guild's pages; Plans for 2015. – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

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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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2014

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 7, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2014
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q4 2014, the project has:

• 188 Featured Articles
• 67 Featured Lists
• 9 Featured Topics
• 20 Featured Pictures

• 42 A-Class Articles
• 749 Good Articles
• 13 Good Topics

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Content

• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• Feature: Refmining – Another side of WikiGnoming
• Interview: Marasmusine

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Project Navigation

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

• Featured content: Kock up

• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-03

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. [1]
• 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. [2]

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. [3]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [4]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [5] [6] [7]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [8]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [9]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

• WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

• Featured content: Citations are needed

• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie

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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!

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Tech News: 2015-04

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.[10] [11]
• 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. [12]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [13]

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18:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

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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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-05

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. [14]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [15]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [16]
• 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. [17]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

You are invited to join us at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign (which also includes events in Brooklyn and Westchester!). Saturday February 7 Black Life Matters Editathon (RSVP). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at NYPL Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue), by W 135th St The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!--Pharos (talk) 06:02, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

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Museum hacks and museum edits

Hello there!

Upcoming events:

• February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
• February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
• February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.harewikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

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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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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. [18]

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. [19]
• 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. [20] [21]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia

• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?

• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue

• Traffic report: The American Heartland

• Featured content: It's raining men!

• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate

• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?

• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes

• Gallery: Langston Hughes

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February 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone! Blitz: The February Blitz will run from February 15–21 and again focuses on the requests page. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one request article. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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?
  • Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!

Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:

• Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
• Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
• Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
• Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.

Regards,

James Hare

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Tech News: 2015-07

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. [22]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [23]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [24]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [25]

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. [26] [27] [28]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [29] [30]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [31]
• 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. [32]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [33]

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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

• From the editors: We want to know what you think!

• News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million

• In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?

• Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...

• Traffic report: Bowled over

• WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled

• Gallery: Feel the love

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Wikidata weekly summary #145

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Europeana Tech
  • Wir lieben Freie Software
  • Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
  • New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
• 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!

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Tech News: 2015-08

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 this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [34] [35] [36]
• You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [37]
• In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [38]
• The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [39]

Meetings

• The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [40]
• You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [41]
• You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [42]

Future changes

• You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

• Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition

• In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia

• Special report: Revision scoring as a service

• Gallery: Darwin Day

• Traffic report: February is for lovers

• Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish

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SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8

ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)!

Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Wikidata weekly summary #146

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
  • Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
  • ViziData
  • Update on data quality project
  • Update on structured data for Commons
  • Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
  • Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
  • Showcase items:Montblanc
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
  • Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
  • Worked on RDF mapping/export
  • Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
  • Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
  • Made the diff views for dates easier to read
  • Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
  • Continued work on header redesign
  • Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
  • Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2015 Newsletter Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 21 people who signed up, eight copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The blitz removed 16 articles from the requests list, and we're almost done with December 2014. Many thanks, everyone! Drive: The month-long March drive begins in about a week. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2015-09

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

• All new accounts are now global. [43]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [44] [45] [46]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [47]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [48]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [49]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [50]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [51]

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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

• News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

• Gallery: Far from home

• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

• Gallery: Far from home

• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

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Wikidata weekly summary #147

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• 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!

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Editing for Women's History in March

Hello,

I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:

• Sunday, March 8: Women in the Arts 2015 Edit-a-thon – 10 AM to 4 PM

  Women in the Arts and ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free coffee and lunch served!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM

  An evening gathering with free-flowing conversation and free pizza.

  More information • RSVP on Meetup (or just show up!)

• Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM

  In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM

  Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM

  Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

• Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM

  Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!

  More information • RSVP on Meetup

Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

James Hare

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Tech News: 2015-10

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

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [52]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [53] [54]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [55] [56] [57] [58]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [59]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [60]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [61]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [62]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

• From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

• Traffic report: Attack of the movies

• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

• Interview: Meet a paid editor

• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

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Wikidata weekly summary #148

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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 create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [63] [64]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [65] [66] [67]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [68] [69]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [70] [71]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [72] [73]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [74] [75]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [76]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [77]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [78]

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC 2015

You are invited to join us at Barnard College for Wikipedia Day NYC 2015, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference for the project's 14th birthday. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Sunday March 22 Wikipedia Day NYC 2015 (RSVP on-wiki or at bit.ly/wikidaybarnard). 10:00pm - 9:00 pm at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, by W 118th St We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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Wikidata weekly summary #149

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

• Discussions
  • Successful RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Pictures, reloaded
  • Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
  • Linkin mash
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Wikidata graph generator
  • Please help test the next step for header redesign
  • Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
  • Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
  • Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
  • Query generator spreadsheet
  • Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
  • Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
  • Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
  • Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
  • Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
• 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!

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Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [79]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [80]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [81] [82]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [83] [84]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [85] [86]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [87] [88]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [89]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [90]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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Wikidata weekly summary #150

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Editathon at MACBA
  • Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
  • We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
  • Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
  • There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
  • First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
  • DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
  • Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
  • Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
  • Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
• Development
  • Fixed property suggestions on empty items
  • Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
  • Updated various documentation
  • Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
  • Polishing in the user interface
• 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!

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Tech News: 2015-13

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [91]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [92] [93] [94]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [95]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [96]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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Wikidata weekly summary #151

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Sex and artists
  • VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
  • Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
  • New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
  • An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
  • The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
  • Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
  • Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
  • New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-14

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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [97]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [98] [99] [100]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [101]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [102]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [103]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [104]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [105]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [106]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [107]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [108] [109] [110] [111]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [112]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost, 1 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2015

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 8, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2015
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Project At a Glance
As of Q1 2015, the project has:

• 192 Featured Articles
• 67 Featured Lists
• 9 Featured Topics

• 21 Featured Pictures
• 823 Good Articles
• 14 Good Topics

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

• Traffic report: All over the place

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #152

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
  • The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
  • The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
  • Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
  • Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
  • A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
  • Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
  • Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
  • Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
• Development
  • Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
  • Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
  • Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
  • Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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 join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [113]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [114] [115]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [116]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [117]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [118]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [119] [120] [121] [122]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [123]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [124] [125]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [126]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [127]

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15:41, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

• Traffic report: Resurrection week

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

• Traffic report: Resurrection week

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Wikidata weekly summary #153

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data
  • Wikidata the Game - one year in
  • Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Build a RSS image feed based on a query
  • Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
  • ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
  • Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
  • Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
  • Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
  • Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
  • Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
  • New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
  • New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
• Development
  • We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
  • Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
  • Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
  • Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
  • Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
  • Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
  • Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
  • Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
  • Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
  • Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
• 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!

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Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [128]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [129] [130]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [131] [132]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [133] [134]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [135]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Upcoming attractions in DC

Hello!

Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:

• Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm

  See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia

• Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm

  Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.

• Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM

  Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!

• Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

  An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Cheers,

James Hare

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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our inaugural evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday April 29 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month on Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 29, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our inaugural evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday April 29 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month on Lady Librarians & Feminist Epistemologies! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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April 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

• Traffic report: Furious domination

• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

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Wikidata weekly summary #154

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Aldnonymous
  • RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Redirects on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
  • Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
  • Map of French national parks
  • Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
  • Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
• Development
  • Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
  • Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
  • Expanded our set of automated browser tests
  • Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
  • Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
  • Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
  • Continued work on our RDF generator
  • Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
  • Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
  • Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
  • Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
  • Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
  • Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
  • More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
  • Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
  • Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
  • Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-17

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

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [136]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [137]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [138]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [139]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [140]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [141] [142] [143]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [144]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [145]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [146] [147]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

• Featured content: Vanguard on guard

• Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

• Gallery: The bitter end

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Wikidata weekly summary #155

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
  • ongoing: Coding DaVinci
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
  • Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
  • Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
  • Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
  • Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
  • Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
    • Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
    • It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
    • Caching issues were fixed
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
  • There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
• Development
  • On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
  • Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
  • More work on RDF output and the query service
  • Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
  • Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
  • Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-18

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

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [148] [149]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [150]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [151]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [152]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [153]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [154]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [155]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [156]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [157]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

• Featured content: Another day, another dollar

• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

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Wikidata weekly summary #156

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
  • The most important Wikipedia pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
  • The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
  • New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
  • All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
  • List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
  • All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
• Development
  • We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
  • The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
  • Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
  • We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
  • We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

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

Recent changes

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [158]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [159] [160]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [161]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [162]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [163]

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15:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

• Traffic report: The grim ship reality

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Wikidata weekly summary #157

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mbch331
  • New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
  • Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
  • MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
  • Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
  • Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
  • The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
  • Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
  • The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
  • The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
  • Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
  • Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
• Development
  • Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
  • Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
  • Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
  • Continued working on RDF export
  • More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
  • Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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

Recent changes

• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [164] [165] [166]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [167]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [168] [169]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [170]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [171]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [172] [173]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [174]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [175]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [176]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday June 10, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our next evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month will also feature on our agenda: recent and upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday June 10 WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 17:43, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

• Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

• Traffic report: Round Two

• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

• Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

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Wikidata weekly summary #158

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
  • Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
  • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
  • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
  • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
  • Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
  • Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
  • New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
  • Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
• Development
  • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
  • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
  • Improvements to calendar handling
  • More work on RDF export for query service
  • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
  • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-21

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

Recent changes

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [177]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [178]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [179]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [180] [181]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [182]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [183]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

• Traffic report: Inner Core

• News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

• Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

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Tech News: 2015-22

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

Problems

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [184]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [185] [186]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [187]

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)