User talk:Jianhui67/Archive May 2014
Latest comment: 9 years ago by John F. Lewis in topic Wikidata weekly summary #111
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The Signpost: 30 April 2014
- News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
- Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
- Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
- WikiProject report: Genetics
- Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
- Featured content: Browsing behaviours
- Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #108
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
- upcoming: Data Science Day
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
- Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
- Started work on monolingual text datatype
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 07 May 2014
- Traffic report: TMZedia
- WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
- In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
- WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
- Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #109
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
- Development
- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
- More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
- Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
- Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 14 May 2014
- Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
- WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
- Featured content: On the rocks
- Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
- Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
- Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- upcoming: SMWCon
- upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
- Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
- The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
- The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
- Did you know?
- Development
- We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
- Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
- Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
- Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
- Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
- Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
- Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
- Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
- Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
- Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
- Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
- More testing on simple queries
- Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 21 May 2014
- News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
- Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
- Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:03, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata office hour log
- Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
- Play the Wikidata Game
- Development
- jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
- Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
- Continued working on monolingual text data type
- Continued making messages easier to understand
- Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #111
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
- Wikidata:Tours
- RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
- Development
- More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
- More work on monolingual text datatype
- Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
- Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
- Cleaned up installation instructions
- Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item