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Wikidata weekly summary #210

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

• Discussions
  • Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
  • Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
  • Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
  • Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
• Development
  • Performance improvements in query service map display.
  • Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
  • Further groundwork on Commons support
  • Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
  • Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
  • Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
• 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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Tech News: 2016-21

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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [1]

Problems

• Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [3]

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Please comment on Talk:Joseph Conrad

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

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Edit to George Müller article

Hi, you added a couple of citations to this article, but although the birth and death years are the same, you give the subject's name as George Friedrich Müller, whereas the article relates to Johann Georg Ferdinand - are you sure it's the same person? Silver Shiney (talk) 18:17, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

@Silver Shiney: It's definitely the same person (the ODNB article is an update of the 1901 DNB article) though there seems to be a discrepancy with the exact forenames, which isn't incredibly uncommon for the period. The ODNB has the same picture and begins "Müller, George Friedrich (1805–1898), preacher and philanthropist, was born at Kroppenstaedt, Prussia, on 27 September 1805, the son of John Frederick Müller (d. 1840)", all of which matches perfectly bar the naming.

Most external sources that I can access simply use "George" or "Georg", and don't give middle names. The LoC authority file has "Müller, Georg Friedrich, 1805-1898" as an alternative name, which agrees (give or take Anglicisation) with the ODNB. Our article doesn't seem to cite where the names it uses came from - and sadly nor does the ODNB, they don't do footnotes - but the German Wikipedia does - it seems to be taken from the school records in Halberstadt. I wonder if he later altered the style he used? Per the German Wikipedia, he formally went by "George Müller" at the time of naturalisation in the UK. Either way, definitely the same person! Andrew Gray (talk) 22:40, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

@Andrew Gray: Intriguing! Many thanks for taking the time to reply. Kind regardsSilver Shiney (talk) 08:07, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

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Help with Vandal

The Haliwa-Saponi's article and talk page continues to get vandal by user 184.0.130.188 They had a warning on their talk page other day by another user for same thing but it appears the person may be deleting their own talk page or something as the warnings disappear. It appears they are attempting to wipe out the talk page as well. *edit: I noticed theystill have 1 warning but on one of their other talk pages, they have a different ip each time, other ip's they used is , 184.0.128.214, 184.0.134.37, 184.0.134.55

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haliwa-Saponi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.156.112.159 (talk) 13:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-22

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

Recent changes

• There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [4]

Problems

• A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [5][6]
• CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [7]

Changes this week

• When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [8]
• The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [9]
• A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [10][11]
• Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
  • Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
    • interview with Open Science Radio
  • Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
  • Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
  • Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
  • Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
• Other Noteworthy Stuff

  

  • Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
  • Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
  • Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
• Development
  • Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
  • More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
  • Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
  • Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:In the news/2016 RD proposal

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		Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh (talk)						Stub
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Peter Brotherhood

Hi. I'm sure you felt there was good reason to do this so - why did you change the ref to the online edition? Eddaido (talk) 23:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

@Eddaido:: Hi! This is part of a small project I've been working on for some time, to try and get ODNB citations linked to the online version where appropriate. (There are a surprising number of articles which just have things like "source: ODNB" with no further details, or bare unformatted links). It's taken a couple of years to get to the point of being able to do the updating, as we ended up getting sidetracked into building an index of them all on Wikidata first...

Overall, I do think this is an improvement in (almost?) all cases. With the citation to the online edition, readers can follow it up (it is unfortunately paywalled, but it's relatively accessible by the standards of such resources). There's generally no material difference between the online and print editions (save any corrections made to the online one) and so I don't feel we're losing any information or confusing matters by directing people to online rather than print.

Incidentally, it seems he was also in the old DNB: s:Brotherhood, Peter (DNB12). Do you think it's worth adding a link as well? The old article's not as clearly written but it is openly accessible. Andrew Gray (talk) 18:26, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, knew there'd be good reason. I understand no one has ever been dropped from the DNB -> ODNB, no harm in adding a citation but it does seem little benefit either. Online ODNB freely accessible through local libraries for most who might be interested though true, they may not be aware of it. I leave it to your expert judgment. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 22:55, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #212

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• 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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Tech News: 2016-23

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Recent changes

• MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [13][14]

Changes this week

• The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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