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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by 
Cas Liber (submissions) and one by 
Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by 
Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by 
Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by 
Hurricanehink (submissions), 
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and 
MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by 
Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by 
Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while 
The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #208
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: OpenTechSummit
slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit - Past: CSVConf
- Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
- Past: OpenTechSummit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
- More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
- Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
- Freebase has been shut down
- Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
- The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
- Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
- Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
- Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
- Development
- Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
- More work on initial Commons prototype
- Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
- Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
- Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
- No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
- Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
- 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.
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
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [1]
- You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [2]
- Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [3][4]
- You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [5]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [6]
- The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [7]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [8]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [9]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [10]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (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 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.- 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).
Future changes
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [11]
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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2016
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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
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [12]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [13]
Changes this week
- Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [14]
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [15]
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [16]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Using self-closing tags like
<div/>and<span/>to mean<div></div>and<span></span>will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as<div>and<span>instead. This is normal in HTML5. [17]
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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #209
- Discussions
- A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
- EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
- Random item: Q14829494
- Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
- Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
- Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
- Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
- Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
- The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
- PetScan now has query examples
- d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
- Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
- Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
- Development
- Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
- Incident report of issues with the query service
- Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
- More work on Commons prototype
- Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
- Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
- We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
- Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
- 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.
The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
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