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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2014

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for January 2014, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New community-centered trademark policy
  • After one year, Individual Engagement Grants demonstrate potential for impact
  • Multimedia vision for 2016, and request for comment on MP4 video
  • New search engine
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Project to record voices of Wikipedia subject gains support from Stephen Fry and the BBC
  • Ukrainian chapter and Wikipedia community protest laws proposed by Ukrainian government

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Wikidata weekly summary #99

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about defining lists
  • Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
  • Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
  • Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
  • Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
  • Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
• Development
  • Made loading items a lot faster
  • Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
  • Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
  • Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
  • Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
  • Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
  • Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-10

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 (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
• When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [1]
• You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [2] [3]
• You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [4]
• The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [5]

VisualEditor news

• You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [6] [7] [8]
• If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [9]
• Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [10]
• VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [11] [12] [13]

Future software changes

• The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [14] [15]
• You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [16] [17]
• Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [18] [19]
• Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [20]

Problems

• For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [21]

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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #100

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
  • Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
• Development
  • Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
  • More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
  • Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
  • Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
  • Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
  • test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
  • Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
  • Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
  • Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014 Headlines France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014 Headlines France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2014-11

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 (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [22] [23]

VisualEditor news

• It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [24] [25]
• It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [26]
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [27]
• We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [28]
• You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [29] [30] [31]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [32]
• CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [33] [34]
• It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [35]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [36]

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Wikidata weekly summary #101

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• Discussions
  • Notability of items
  • Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
  • Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Happy Pi Day
  • paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
• Development
  • Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
  • Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
  • Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
  • Continued research for user interface redesign
  • Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
  • Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
  • Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
  • Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-12

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 (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
• You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [37]
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [38] [39]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [40]

VisualEditor news

• Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [41] [42]
• Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [43]
• Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [44]

Future software changes

• You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [45]
• You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome. [46]
• You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature. [47]

Problems

• VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [48]

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Wikidata weekly summary #102

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• Discussions
  • Wikiquote notability
  • Belongs to jurisdiction
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
  • Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
  • The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
  • Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
  • GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
• Development
  • Continued making the UI faster
  • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
  • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
  • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
  • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
  • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
  • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
  • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
  • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
  • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-13

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 (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [49] [50]
• Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [51]
• You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [52]
• You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [53]

Future software changes

• Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
• You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
• You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [54] [55]

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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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

• Discussions
• Wikiquote notability
  • Discussion relating to DBpedia
  • Discussion over Wikidata data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
• Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
• Development
  • Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
  • Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
  • Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
  • Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
  • Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
  • Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
  • Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
  • Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
  • The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 19:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-14

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 (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
• CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [56] [57]

VisualEditor news

• Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [58] [59]
• The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [60]
• New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [61]
• VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [62]

Future software changes

• You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [63]
• CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
• You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [64]
• Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [65]

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