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Wikidata weekly summary #125

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

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  • The new main page can now be translated.
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  • Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
  • Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
  • Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
  • Worked more on enabling statements on properties
  • Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
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Duplicate journalists

I saw you conversation on User talk:Charles Matthews#Duplicate journalists so I went ahead and merged the two articles (well spotted). I chose to place all the text into Marchamont Needham because that was the older of the two articles even though it was the more poorly sourced. I then moved it from Marchamont Needham to Marchamont Nedham because the former is the name used by the DNB while the latter is the name used by the ODNB (per Charles's advise). I have not been particularly diligent in the merger and I have not cross checked it with the DNB or the ODNB. So there is still plenty of work to do if others choose to do it ☺ -- PBS (talk) 19:26, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! He's a bit out of my comfort zone in terms of period and topic, so was procrastinating on actually doing the merge :-)

The project CM and I have been working on is this, trying to match up ODNB entries and Wikipedia/Wikidata entries. (Currently on 23800 matches, a bit over 40% - please do have a go if it looks interesting! The little [G] link next to unmatched is the auto-suggest game mode). It's quite good at highlighting possible merge cases like this, though there's reassuringly few - I've only spotted a handful so far. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:52, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation. I am busy on articles relating to the Waterloo Campaign as the 200 anniversary is approaching, so that is my main focus when not fire-fighting. When I have finished (which will not be for months), I'll wander over as see if I can help. -- PBS (talk) 13:11, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-38

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• You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [6] [7]
• There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [8] [9] [10]
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• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [12]

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• You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [16]

Future software changes

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• These changes are coming with the new version:
  • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [17] [18] [19]

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Stub contest

Hey Andrew, thanks for keeping on assessing entries. Can I ask a favour in that you're welcome to adjust the scoreboard if you give something a tick? Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:14, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Apologies - will do! Andrew Gray (talk) 20:50, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39

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• There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [29] [30]
• In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [31]

Future site changes

• You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [32]

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