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Tech News: 2015-39

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 is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [1][2]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [3][4][5][6]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [7]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [8]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [9]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [10][11]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [13]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [14]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [15]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #176

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon in Dresden
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
  • Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
  • A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
  • Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
  • Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
  • English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
  • The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
• Development
  • Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
  • Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
  • Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
  • Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
  • Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
  • Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
  • Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:59, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-40

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

• In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [16]
• UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [17]
• You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [18]
• When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [19]
• You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [20]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [21]
• MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [22]

Problems

• Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [23][24]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
• There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [25]
• The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [26]

Meetings

• You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [27]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #177

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: IRC office hour (log with summary of past 3 months, OSM integration and more)
  • Upcoming: code.talks
  • Upcoming: Wikiconference USA
  • Wikidata-Items schnell auf der Kommandozeile nachschlagen? Mediawiki APIs hacken
  • A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
  • Wikidata timeline is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
  • Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
  • nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
  • The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
  • 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
  • Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: 1, 2, 3
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
• Development
  • You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
  • Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
  • Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
  • Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
  • Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T50389)
  • Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (phabricator:T107595)
  • More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

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