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Tech News: 2016-49

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 choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [1]
Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [2]
ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [3]

Changes this week

You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Indian 500 and 1000 rupee note demonetisation

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2016)

The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.

Hello, Sanskari.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Hoax

Please be bold and help to improve this article!

Previous selections: Three-martini lunch • Homework

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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.

Discussions
- New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
- Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
- Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?

Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
- Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.

Did you know?

Development
- Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
- Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
- Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

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

Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [5]
You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [6]
Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [7]

Problems

Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [8]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Bitcoin

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29	Hindu Sena (talk)	Add sources
594	Foreign direct investment in India (talk)	Add sources
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187	Rajasthan Patrika (talk)	Cleanup
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248	Agricultural insurance in India (talk)	Expand
148	Deforestation by region (talk)	Expand
110	Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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10	Khuddam ul-Islam (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
42	Iolo Technologies (talk)	Merge
142	Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana (talk)	Merge
155	Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (talk)	Merge
233	Priority sector lending (talk)	Wikify
198	Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (talk)	Wikify
364	Indian rupee exchange rate history (talk)	Wikify
25	Atishi Marlena (talk)	Orphan
6	Delhi Institute of Rural Development (talk)	Orphan
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2016)

Helena Bergström in 2014

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Helena Bergström

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Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

Discussions
- Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
- Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

Events/Press/Blogs
- Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
- Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
- WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
- SQID now supports PrimarySources
- Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
- Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
- New parser function has been enabled
- Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

Did you know?
- Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
- Newest database reports: hospital lists
Development
- Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792)
- Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
- Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
- Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [9]
Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [10]

Problems

Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [11]

Changes this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes