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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2014)
 An example of the human skeleton
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DYK for Charles Davis (theologian)
 | On 26 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Davis (theologian), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the English Jesuit theologian Charles Davis caused a firestorm of controversy when he left the priesthood in 1966? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Davis (theologian). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it may be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Books & Bytes, Issue 4
News for February from your Wikipedia Library.
Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers
Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement
American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia
Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th
Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:00, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #99
- Discussions
- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- 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
GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive
The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2014)
 Because it is so vast, there are a large number of different cultures involved in Prehistoric Asia
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Human skeleton • Reconnaissance satellite Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 03:48, 3 March 2014 (UTC) • |
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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)
Category:Former Facebook employees
Category:Former Facebook employees, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 20
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Done —Tom Morris (talk) 10:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 27
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- Done —Tom Morris (talk) 10:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
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- Done —Tom Morris (talk) 10:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #100
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
- Did you know?
- 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
This Month in GLAM: February 2014
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This Month in GLAM: February 2014
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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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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
A beer for you!
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When I first joined Wikipedia, you added a very important introduction which helped enormously with my future edits. Thank you so much, since then I have not stopped enjoying editing Wikipedia. All the very best, Pjposullivan (talk) 03:13, 10 March 2014 (UTC) |
- Pjposullivan, I'm glad to hear that helped you feel welcome. And I'm glad you stuck around and made a whole lot of edits to improve Wikipedia. —Tom Morris (talk) 14:09, 10 March 2014 (UTC)