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Wikidata weekly summary #170

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
    • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
    • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
    • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
    • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
    • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
    • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
    • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
    • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
    • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
    • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
    • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
    • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
  • 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) 18:20, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

  • MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [1]
  • The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [2]
  • You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [3]
  • You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [4]
  • It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [5]
  • JavaScript authors:
    • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [6] [7]
    • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [8] [9]
  • The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [10]

Problems

  • More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [11]
  • Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [12]
  • Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [13]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [14]
  • You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [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 August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [16]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #171

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [17] [18] [19]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [20]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [21] [22]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [23]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [24]

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 August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Corvette leaf spring

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Novel article

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Many thanks Andrew for the response. It's encouraging to have some positive comment on what I was doing. Unfortunately Novel still needs lots of work, as my edits were somewhat crude, and I don't have the time --or energy-- to continue at the moment. Rwood128 (talk) 19:51, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

It's a gargantuan task - I'm not sure I'd even know where to begin! Kudos for making a start on it. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:56, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Stub contest

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Hi Andrew Gray,

I noticed that some stubs were too long before expansion. Please help me to understand the regulations. What is maximum lenght of the stubs before expansion for this contest?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [25]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [26]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

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 August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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