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Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
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Archived link for December Bay Area WikiSalon
Hi, y'all. In case you missed it and want to watch the archive reel; the topic was The Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter was well respected Wikimedian Jim Heaphy [[User:Cullen328]]
- Archive link (also includes intro, announcements, and a lightning talk)
- Details about Bay Area WikiSalon for December here
The full title of Jim's presentation was: Welcoming and Helping New Editors: A Month at the Wikipedia Teahouse: an overview of the Teahouse and an analysis of over 300 Teahouse conversations during the month of August, 2016
Jim gave a longer version of this presentation in October at WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego, California.
Cheers! Co-organizer Checkingfax - and co-organizer Ben Creasy | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)
PS: Mark your calendars now for Sunday, January 15 at 2 p.m. which will be Wikipedia's 16th Birthday party hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon! Details to follow soon. If you want to help plan it, get in touch with us ASAP!
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Wikidata weekly summary #241
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
- Query examples:
- List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
- Airports named after people (source)
- Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Solidays occurring today (source)
- Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
- Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
- Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
- Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
- Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
- Development
- Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
- Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
- Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
- Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
- Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
- Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
- Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese
- Development
- When a
{{#statements:…}}
property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799) - Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)
- When a
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
You are invited to a birthday bash to Celebrate Wikipedia's 16th Birthday!
Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district.
For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Wikipedia Day 2017
The San Francisco gathering is one of a number of Wikipedia Day celebrations worldwide.
See you soon! Ben Creasy, Checkingfax and Slaporte | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this notice)
PS: We need volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add your name to the Project page, and what you can offer. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the page.
Bay Area WikiSalon usually meets the last Wednesday evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch and learn about new projects and ideas.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
- Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
- How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)
- Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour
- This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
- Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
- Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
- We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Add statements to items without
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Reminder invitation to the Wikipedia Day 16 birthday bash & edit-a-thon
Wikipedia Day 16 SF is a fun Birthday bash and edit-a-thon on Sunday, January 15, 2017, hosted by Bay Area WikiSalon at the Wikimedia Foundation's Chip Deubner Lounge in the South of Market Street business district and everybody is invited!
Details and RSVP here |
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See you Sunday! Ben Creasy, Checkingfax and Slaporte
PS: We still need more volunteers to help make this a fun and worthwhile event. Please add what you can offer and your name to the Project page or Talk about it. It is a wiki, so please make direct edits to the Project page. The event is already growing due to volunteers that have stepped up so far.
- Bay Area WikiSalon meets one evening of every month as an inclusive and safe place to collaborate, mingle, munch or learn about new projects and ideas.
Note: the previous invitation had a bum wikilink. Sorry! | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this notice) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:43, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 January 2017
- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
Wikidata weekly summary #243
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
- EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
- Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
- Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: lighthouses at night
- Development
- Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
- Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help fixing the most important constraint violations
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #244
- Discussions
- New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
- QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
- List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Development
- Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
- Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
- Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
- Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
- A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
- More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #245
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
- The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
- The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
- Newest database reports: film festivals this month
- Development
- RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
- Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
- Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
- We plan to provide
og:image
Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859) - Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
- Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
- Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
- Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
February 18 Wikipedia Day event in DTLA
LA Wikipedia Day Celebration (February 18) | |
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Dear fellow Wikipedian, Please join us at our Wikipedia Day celebration at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, February 18, 2017 from 11 am to 5 pm! This event will feature lectures, panel discussions, lightning talks, open space discussions and collaboration, and--most importantly--cake! Please RSVP on the event page if you're thinking of joining us. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
The Signpost: 6 February 2017
- Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
- WikiProject report: For the birds!
- Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
- Traffic report: Cool It Now
- Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
Wikidata weekly summary #246
- Discussions
- We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
- Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
- Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
- Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
- What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
- Join the Wikimania program committee!
- OpenStreetMap uses several
wikidata
-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation - Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
- An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
- WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
- WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- You can now download query results as SVG images
- When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
- We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
- Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
- Setting up test system for lexemes
- Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
- Doing more groundwork for lexemes
- Working on better integration with Elastic
- More work on Federation
- Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
- Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
- Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
- Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
- Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)
See all open tickets related to Wikidata.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
Wikidata weekly summary #247
- Discussions
- New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
- Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
- Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
- Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
- Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
- Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
- ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
- It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
- Query examples:
- Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
- Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
- Timeline of antipopes (source)
- Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
- Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
- Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine
- Development
- Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
- Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
- Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
- Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for February 22
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks.
Please note: You should RSVP here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in.
For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, February 2017
See you soon! Ben Creasy and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 15 February 2017 (UTC)