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Wikidata weekly summary #173

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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) 16:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [1][2]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [3]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [4]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [5]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [6]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

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The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far   Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was   Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

  1.   Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
  2.   Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
  3.   Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
  4.   Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
  5.   West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
  6.   Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
  7.   Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
  8.   Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 September 2015

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Please comment on Talk:Supernatural

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Supernatural. Legobot (talk) 00:06, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Stub Contest date

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The "last update" for the stub contest says August; I believe it should be September.

Wikipedia:Stub_Contest/Scoreboard — "Last updated on 20:20, 3 August 2015 (UTC)"

Thanks, SBaker43 (talk) 21:01, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks - I don't think we've ever been updating that since the start, so I've removed it. Andrew Gray (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #174

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Tech News: 2015-37

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 can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [7]
  • A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [8]
  • You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [9]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [10]
  • The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [11][12]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
  • The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [13]
  • The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [14][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 September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [16]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [17][18]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Community portal

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Community portal. Legobot (talk) 00:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

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18   Earl of Chichester (talk)       Add sources
148   Grise Fiord (talk)     Add sources
15   Ernest Cox (talk)         Add sources
76   Battle of Eniwetok (talk)       Add sources
3   William Harpur (talk)         Add sources
69   Waking Ned (talk)         Add sources
3   C. H. B. Quennell (talk)         Cleanup
22   Evil May Day (talk)           Cleanup
272   John Foster Dulles (talk)   Cleanup
51   Portrush (talk)     Expand
3   Bury (UK Parliament constituency) (talk)           Expand
1   West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) (talk)           Expand
16   Civil union in New Zealand (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
217   Freestyle Motocross (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
15   Dirtsurfing (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
2   Sandy Lieberson (talk)           Merge
34   Ordinal regression (talk)         Merge
54   Post-2008 Irish banking crisis (talk) Merge
83   Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom (talk)   Wikify
2   Broom Hill, London (talk)         Wikify
35   American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II (talk)       Wikify
2   Ankala (talk)           Orphan
1   Amarillo National Bancorporation (talk)           Orphan
4   A Ergo (talk)           Orphan
1   Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet (talk)           Stub
111   Hanya Yanagihara (talk)           Stub
1   Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet (talk)           Stub
4   William Denman Croft (talk)           Stub
1   General Dictionary, Historical and Critical (talk)           Stub
1   Tullamore (UK Parliament constituency) (talk)           Stub

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21   Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (talk)         Add sources
11   Robert Throckmorton (talk)         Add sources
3   Moore baronets (talk)         Add sources
22   Haileybury, Melbourne (talk)         Add sources
11   Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans (talk)           Add sources
6   Hamilton baronets (talk)         Add sources
22   Same-sex marriage in New Jersey (talk)   Cleanup
13   Klik (packaging method) (talk)         Cleanup
4   Robert Gregory (priest) (talk)       Cleanup
3   East Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) (talk)         Expand
1,441   GitHub (talk)       Expand
16   Volturno Line (talk)           Expand
13   Source Mage (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
41   The Intervention of the Sabine Women (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
53   Québécois (word) (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
115   Chronometer watch (talk)       Merge
637   Smart card (talk)   Merge
156   Palio di Siena (talk)   Merge
6   Husum, Washington (talk)         Wikify
6   The History of Timon of Athens the Man-hater (talk)           Wikify
87   Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (talk)     Wikify
8   Wildfire emergency management (talk) Orphan
1   Ernest Thoen (talk)           Orphan
8   Arts in Rome (talk)   Orphan
2   Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet (talk)           Stub
3   Henry Aglionby Aglionby (talk)           Stub
14   Mineral, Washington (talk)         Stub
16   EgyptAir Flight 843 (talk)         Stub
9   William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans (talk)           Stub
1   Christopher Storrs (talk)           Stub

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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

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Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Geonotice request

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Hi. I posted a Geonotice request for a Sept. 26 event the other day. Could you take a look at it? Many thanks.Alafarge (talk) 16:35, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this!Alafarge (talk) 23:59, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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Please comment on Talk:Learning To Drive

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Learning To Drive. Legobot (talk) 00:06, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2015

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  • UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon
  • Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more
  • Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata this month
  • Calendar: September's GLAM events



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Tech News: 2015-38

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 can now use the Wikidata query service. [19]
  • Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [20]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [21][22]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [23]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [24]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (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 September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [25]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [26]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #175

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