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The Signpost: 01 January 2014

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #92

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Wikidata weekly summary #93

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #94

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014

Arabic

Hey Ciphers. Wondering about some feedback on Arabic translations as presented here [1]. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 19:10, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Any time to give feedback to the project regarding Arabic? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 06:49, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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Manuscript available for preview

Hello Ciphers-

I wanted to let you know that I have had a book chapter accepted for publication that draws on information from our early 2013 interview. If you would like to see a preprint copy of the chapter, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and assistance in understanding the work of bot operators on Wikipedia and Wikimedia. I hope this finds you well. UOJComm (talk) 18:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Congratulations! I almost forgot about that. Yes, I would love to have a look at it but not if it's going to cost you anything. Please feel free to mail me anytime. Cheers. --Ciphers (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #96

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • See the office hours logs at meta
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • See the FOSDEM slides
    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
  • Development
    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
  • Monthly Tasks

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #97

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  • Discussions
  • Reasonator
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
    • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
    • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
    • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
    • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
    • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
    • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
    • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
    • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
    • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
  • Monthly Tasks

Intro Video For Arabic User

I just saw videos on Arabic Wikipedia for user. That are really awesome. I want to make such video for Urdu Wikipedia, can you please help me? my email id is ameen.akbar@gmail.com . waiting for your reply.Ameen Akbar (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #98

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The Signpost: 26 February 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #99

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Wikidata weekly summary #100

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Wikidata weekly summary #101

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The Signpost: 12 March 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #102

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Continued making the UI faster
    • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
    • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
    • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
    • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
    • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
    • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
    • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
    • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
    • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
  • Monthly Tasks

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #103

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Wikidata weekly summary #104

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The Signpost: 02 April 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #105

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #106

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #107

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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #108

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The Signpost: 07 May 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #109

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #110

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #110

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Wikidata weekly summary #111

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #112

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014

三角函数 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 三角函数. Since you had some involvement with the 三角函数 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GZWDer (talk) 11:11, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

恒等式 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 恒等式. Since you had some involvement with the 恒等式 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GZWDer (talk) 11:27, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #113

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The Signpost: 18 June 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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Mathematik listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mathematik. Since you had some involvement with the Mathematik redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 01:41, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #115

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Wikidata weekly summary #116

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

Istancool

Hello the Istancool page on Wikipedia is being vandalized. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.217.125.148 (talk) 07:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #117

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #118

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #119

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Statistiques listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Statistiques. Since you had some involvement with the Statistiques redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 01:44, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #120

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
    • More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
    • More work on the monolingual datatype
    • Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
    • Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
  • Monthly Tasks

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #121

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Wikidata weekly summary #122

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
    • Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
    • Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
    • We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
    • Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
    • Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
  • 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

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #123

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #124

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014

Re:Question

may i ask why did you remove your message and my reply? I would expect that you at least appreciate that I took the time to respond to you. --Ciphers (talk) 16:58, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ciphers, I do appreciate that you took the time to respond. However your talk page is already full of messages from other users so I did not wish to burden you with additional messages. --Jose77 (talk) 12:42, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #125

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #126

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #127

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  • Discussions
    • [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
    • ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Investigated and fixed issues with time values
    • Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
    • Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
    • Further work on usage tracking
    • Created smoke tests for items and properties
    • Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
    • Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
  • Monthly Tasks

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #128

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #129

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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  • 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

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #131

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #132

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Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Lydia, Magnus and Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the ODI award gala

Wikidata weekly summary #133

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  • 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?
  • 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

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #134

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #135

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #136

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • 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?
  • 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

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #137

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #138

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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