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Wikidata weekly summary #114
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2014)
 Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first national park
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Ice hotel • Central America Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:05, 27 October 2014 (UTC) • |
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I don't understand, why did you delete my contribution?
I added the external link "boracay beaches guide" to the Boracay page.
The reason you mention for deleting that resource is " inappropriate for an encyclopedia".
My question to you is: have you even read the page? Because it's the most comprehensive guide to Boracay's beaches available online. I know, I live there... So I don't feel there is any question that it's a useful resource for people wanting to learn more about Boracay.
I will re-add the link since I feel that you have made a wrong judgement when deleting it. Please don't delete my contributions again without taking care to read the content first.
Thanks, if you have any questions just let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JanPaul999 (talk • contribs) 03:31, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Is anything not officially issued considered spam? It might not be officially issued but I've been living on Boracay for 3 years now and I can vouch for the accuracy of the information. There's also no other website that goes into that much detail of the beaches. Having talked to many tourist here, I know the beaches are #1 reason people come to Boracay, so a resource that talks about them in detail like that should be helpful for a lot of people that want to know more about the place.
About copying the contents to Wikipedia, I could do that but I feel that resource really has to be read on it's own since it's a complete guide and not just a snippet of information that can be summarized easily.
Anyway, thanks for being reasonable :)
If you have any suggestions just let me know, I'm relatively new to using Wikipedia as an editor.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [1]
- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [2]
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [3]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
- VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [5] [6] [7]
- VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
- VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
- The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 October 2014
- Featured content: Go West, young man
- In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
- Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
- Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
Wikidata weekly summary #131
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- Wikidata II
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
- What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
- Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- Random items without statements
- Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
- Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2014)
 A pizza is an oven-baked flat bread typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: National park • Ice hotel Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:23, 3 November 2014 (UTC) • |
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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 software changes
- The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [11]
- You can no longer use the
insource:keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [12] [13]
Problems
- There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [14]
- Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [15] [16] [17]
- HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
- Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the
<indicator>tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [18] [19] - VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [20]
- The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
- After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [26] [27] [28]
Future changes
- The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [29]
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
VisualEditor newsletter—November 2014
VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Login and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings in the upper-right corner, to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.
It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.
The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available in Mobile Web.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.
Recent improvements
The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias next week, and eventually at the English Wikipedia.
The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.
VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.
The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar's menus are now shown in the menus. VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience / Design group. The appearance of dialogs has already changed in one Mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.)
Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search program could not find the page. A link inside a template, to a local page that does not exist, will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to a error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [30] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.
TemplateData
The tool for quickly editing TemplateData will be deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool is already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.
You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common response for that parameter. The autovalue can be easily overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.
In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.
Looking ahead
Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in tables will appear next Wednesday. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be possible later. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus will be hidden behind a "More" item, such as "underlining" in the styling menu. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.
The user guide will be updated soon to add information about editing tables. The translations for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.
You can influence VisualEditor's design. Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter. Thank you!
The Signpost: 05 November 2014
This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2014)
 Sleeping is part of everyday life
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Pizza • National park Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #132
- Discussions
- Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
- Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
- Did you know?
- Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
- Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
- Development
- Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
- Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
- Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
- Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
- Lots of bug fixes all over the place
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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 software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [31] [32]
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [33]
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [34]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [35] [36]
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [37]
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [38]
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #133
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
- GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help make sure these items have labels in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NATO code for grade
- Development
- Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
- Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
- Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
- Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
- Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
- Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
- Improved calendar model display
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2014)
 Military aviation and missile guidance are examples of modern military technology.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Everyday life • Pizza Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2014 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 12 November 2014
- In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
- Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
- Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
- WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
- The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [39]
Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
- The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
- You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
- You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
- Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
- You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [40]
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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #134
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
- Building a periodic table using Wikidata
- Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
- The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
- Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
- Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
- WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
- VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
- Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
- Did you know?
- Development
- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
- Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
- The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
- Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
- While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
- More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
- Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
- Bug fixes
- Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2014)
 A beach on the island of San Andrés, a tourist destination in the Caribbean
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Military technology • Everyday life Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2014 (UTC) • |
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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
- The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [41]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the
colspanorrowspanoption. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [42]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
- You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [43]
- VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [44]
- You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [45]
- VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [46] [47]
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 November 2014
- Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
- WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
- Traffic report: Big in Japan
This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2014)
 The Mexico–United States border spans six Mexican states and four U.S. states, with a total length of 3,145 km (1,954 mi).
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Tourism in the Caribbean • Military technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:36, 1 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #135
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
- Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
- Picture this!
- Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
- Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
- IRC office hour on Wednesday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
- Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
- VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
- Did you know?
- Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
- Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
- Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
- Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
- Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
- Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
- Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
- Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
- JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
- Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
- Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
- Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
- Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
- Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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The Signpost: 03 December 2014
- In the media: Embroidery and cheese
- Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
- Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
- WikiProject report: Today on the island
This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2014)
 Game design is the art of creating rules and mechanics to facilitate interactions between players in a game.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Mexico–United States border • Tourism in the Caribbean Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #136
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
- Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game has a new mode: alma mater
- Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
- Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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 software changes
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [48]
- You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [49]
Problems
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [50]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [51]
- You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [52]
- It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [53] [54]
- The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [55] [56] [57]
- (Lua) You can no longer use
mw.text.unstripto get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [58] [59]
Future changes
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [60]
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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| For all of your work on Frozen (2013 film). When looking at the past contributions it's clear that you've devoted lots of your time to improve Wikipedia. Chamith (talk) 12:03, 7 December 2014 (UTC) |
- Chamith: Thank you very much. —ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 11:57, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 December 2014
- Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
- Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
- Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2014)
.jpg) A plate of spaghetti and meatballs.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Game design • Mexico–United States border Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 15 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #137
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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 software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [61]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [62]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [63]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+ForCmd+F. [64] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [65]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [66]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [67] [68]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [69] [70]
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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 December 2014
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
- Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
- Traffic report: A December Lull
Wikidata weekly summary #138
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- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014
Did you know?
Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.
The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.
VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).
Recent improvements
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.
You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.
You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".
Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1. " or "# " will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.
If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.
You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.
Looking ahead
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)
The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.
Help
- Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
- Translations of the user guide for most languages are oudated. Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translators are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
- Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
- File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
- The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta.
Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2014)
 An aurora is a natural phenomenon.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Spaghetti • Game design Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 22 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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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 software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [71]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [72]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [73]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [74]
Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
STiki edit summary
How do you get STiki to show the "to last version by User" bit in its edit summary? I've noticed you've been able to do this, so I'm wondering what I need to put in the edit summary field to get STiki to do the same. Thanks. --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 21:28, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- K6ka, in the "Comments" box on the bottom left of STiki window, you may add
to last revision by #p#to generate such bit. I learned this from ClueBot NG's edit summary, and found that it could be useful in several cases. —ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 04:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you! --I am k6ka Talk to me! See what I have done 23:19, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2014
- From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
- In the media: Wales on GamerGate
- Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
- WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
- Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased