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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. [1]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [2]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [3] [4]

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. [5] [6]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [7] [8]

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. [9] [10]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [11]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [12]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

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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

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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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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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. [13]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [14] [15] [16]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [17]

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. [18]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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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

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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
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• Monthly Tasks
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  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-14

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Recent changes

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [19]
• 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. [20] [21] [22]
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• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [24]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [25]

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. [26]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [27]
• 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. [28]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [29]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [30] [31] [32] [33]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [34]
• 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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