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Wikidata weekly summary #193
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
- Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
- Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- 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.
Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015
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- Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
- Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
- Making our pageview data easily accessible
- In brief
The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
- In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
- Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
- Traffic report: Death and taxes
- Featured content: This week's featured content
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)
![]() The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal
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Wikidata weekly summary #194
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
- Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Sites with a
wikimedia.org
address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [3] - Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [4][5]
- Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [6]
Changes this week
- The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [7]
- Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [8][9]
- The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [10]
- The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [11][12][13]
- The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [14][15]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The
rest.wikimedia.org
domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use/api/rest_v1/
at each individual project domain instead. [16]
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2016)
Hello, Quenhitran.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Killing of animals • Izakaya Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [17]
- When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [18]
RESTBase is now using
scrub_wikitext
instead ofscrubWikitext
. [19]
Changes this week
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [20][21]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [22][23]
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [24][25][26]
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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #195
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- From the editors: Help wanted
- Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
- Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
- Traffic report: Bowled
- Featured content: This week's featured content
This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)
Hello, Quenhitran.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delivery (commerce) • Killing of animals Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 15 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
- In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A river of revilement
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
- You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [27]
- You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [28]
Problems
- A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [29][30]
Changes this week
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [31][32]
- Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [34]
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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #196
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #196
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Super Bowling
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2016)
![]() Several of the commonly known molecules.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Cold • Delivery (commerce) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 22 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- Phabricator has been upgraded. [35][36]
Problems
- There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [37][38]
Changes this week
- After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [39]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016
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- Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
- Who edits Wikipedia?
- “Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell
- In brief
Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
- Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
- 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.
Changes at Agnona and Zegna (Italian fashion houses)
I have changed the name of new Agnona's designer who is Simon Holloway as you can red on this page (linked below) on the section dedicated to Agnona fashion house, plus I have deleted the name of Stefano Pilati because he is no longer director at Ermenegildo Zegna fashion house
Regarding new designer at Agnona: in Italian: http://www.mffashion.com/it/archivio/2016/02/24/milano-moda-donna-ecco-20-hot-tickets-su-cui-puntare In English: http://fashionista.com/2015/11/agnona-simon-holloway
Regarding Stefano Pilati leaving Zegna: http://fashionista.com/2016/02/stefano-pilati-leaves-ermenegildo-zegna
Please restore the changments I have done before ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.152.207.222 (talk) 15:02, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears
- Op-ed: Backward the Foundation
- Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges
- Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
VisualEditor News #1—2016
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Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
Recent changes
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
- Remember my last editor,
- Always give me the visual editor if possible,
- Always give me the source editor, and
- Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.
Let's work together
- Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
- Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Language engineer David Chan needs help from people who often type in these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Report your results on wiki (Korean – Japanese – all languages).
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thanks!
– Whatamidoing (WMF) 17:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2016)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
- The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
- The visual editor now follows the TemplateData
format
setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [40][41] - The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [42][43]
Changes this week
- On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [44]
- Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [45]
- Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [46]
Meetings
- Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [47]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #198
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
- Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
- 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.
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2016)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [48]
- Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [49]
- The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [50]
- It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [51]
Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications.
<pages from= to= section=1>
will parse as<pages from="to=" section="1">
instead of<pages from="" to="" section="1">
as it used to. Please use<pages from="" to="" section=1>
or<pages section=1>
instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [52]
Problems
- Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [53]
- The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [54]
- The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [55]
- You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [56]
- Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [57]
Changes this week
- Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [58]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
- Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow
<mapframe>
and<maplink>
tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [59]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [60]
- The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [61]
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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #199
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
- You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
- Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
- A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
- Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
- Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
- Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
- Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
- More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
- Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
- Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Brawling
The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
- Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
- WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes
- Traffic report: All business like show business