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Wikidata weekly summary #93

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

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Tech News: 2014-04

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

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (  ). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
  • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [6]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [7]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [8]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [9] [10]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [11]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [12]

Problems

  • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [13]
  • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [14]
  • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [15]

Future software changes

 
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  • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [16] [17]
  • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [18]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [19]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [20] [21]

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10:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #94

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 December 27

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Tech News: 2014-05

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

Recent software changes

  • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [22]
  • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [23]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [24]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

Future software changes

  • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [26]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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You might find this interesting User talk:Keith-264/sandbox3Keith-264 (talk) 20:15, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks - looks promising. I had a quick poke around after your query about Artois, but couldn't see anything particularly useful. FRWP has "Les batailles de Picardie et de l'Artois", "première phase" 25/9-4/10 and "deuxième phase" 4/10-15/10 which may be an interesting pointer, though they also consider a "troisième phase" which doesn't seem to fit. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:10, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, the text bits are placeholders until I feel a bit more motivated but it should draw some disparate pages together.Keith-264 (talk) 23:20, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95

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WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

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The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer   Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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Pilcher DYK

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Minor fixes needed your article. See review. HalfGig talk 23:50, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Sadly, I don't think that the figure of 23 is correct - it seems most likely to be 26 (as given by Craig), although sources vary. I've identified another four, but there's still at least one candidate missing. It's great to see your work improving the article! Warofdreams talk 20:02, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-06

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
  • Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [27] [28]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [29] [30]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [31]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [32]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [33]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [34]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [35]

Future software changes

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Wikidata weekly summary #96

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • See the office hours logs at meta
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • See the FOSDEM slides
    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
  • Development
    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
  • Monthly Tasks
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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