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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

WikiProject report: Able to make a stand

Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.

Traffic report: We're Baaaaack

Technology report: Technical updates and improvements

Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

Wikidata weekly summary #165

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

Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [1]

Problems

The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [2]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [3] [4]
You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [5]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

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25	Old Azeri language (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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34	Disability hate crime (talk)	Merge
197	Discrimination based on skin color (talk)	Merge
29	Logos and uniforms of the New York Mets (talk)	Wikify
12	Radiotelevisione svizzera (talk)	Wikify
84	Lionel Trilling (talk)	Wikify
1	Fenix FCS (talk)	Orphan
2	Charlotte Colbert (talk)	Orphan
14	Alarms on submarines of the United States Navy (talk)	Orphan
1	WPGF-LD (talk)	Stub
1	Wayne Matle (talk)	Stub
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8	Josh Turnbull (talk)	Stub
9	Tampa Bay Hellenic (talk)	Stub
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This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015.

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved

Traffic report: The Empire lobs back

Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #166

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

Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
- Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 11:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-29

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 see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [6]

Problems

There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [7]
There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [8]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [9]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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2,097	Adidas (talk)	Add sources
9	Klampenborg Station (talk)	Add sources
111	Third jersey (talk)	Add sources
1,488	Tel Aviv (talk)	Add sources
42	Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States (talk)	Add sources
7	Meir Park, Tel Aviv (talk)	Add sources
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70	Salisbury University (talk)	Cleanup
70	Mount Royal University (talk)	Cleanup
77	AwesomenessTV (TV series) (talk)	Expand
1,031	North American Soccer League (talk)	Expand
894	Windows Phone (talk)	Expand
18	Kanan Makiya (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
59	Anti-Indian sentiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
120	2013 Seattle Seahawks season (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
43	Action Stations (talk)	Merge
30	Ajam of Iraq (talk)	Merge
198	Heinrich Schliemann (talk)	Merge
57	Criticism of Greenpeace (talk)	Wikify
33	Coast Guard Command (talk)	Wikify
4	Nu Kappa Epsilon (talk)	Wikify
2	Sentry siren (talk)	Orphan
2	Vagn F. Flyger (talk)	Orphan
1	Scott Donohue (talk)	Orphan
8	Cinaethon of Sparta (talk)	Stub
5	Rhys Patchell (talk)	Stub
1	KIDQ-LP (talk)	Stub
8	Justin Tipuric (talk)	Stub
7	Ieuan Jones (talk)	Stub
7	WTWV (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it

Traffic report: Belles of the ball

WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?

In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report

News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania

Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #167

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nikki
Events/Blogs/Press
- Right now: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools:
  - list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
  - list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
  - an InfoBitt replacement
  - a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
  - plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
- P2000 was created.
- Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
  - WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
  - Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
  - Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
- New task forces: Linguistics
Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
- After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
- Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
- Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
- Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
- Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
- Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [10]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [11]

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32	WTTA (talk)	Add sources
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118	Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (talk)	Expand
21	Civil defense by country (talk)	Expand
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195	Tree squirrel (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
112	Arab League–Iran relations (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18,899	Naturism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
75	Criticism of fast food (talk)	Merge
24	Handicapism (talk)	Merge
186	Venture capital financing (talk)	Merge
322	Phalanx (talk)	Wikify
4	Mana (drink) (talk)	Wikify
42	Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (talk)	Wikify
1	Cole Finegan (talk)	Orphan
12	Nisha Yadav (talk)	Orphan
1	Rhodri Evans (talk)	Orphan
6	WWTW (talk)	Stub
10	Lloyd Williams (rugby union player born 1989) (talk)	Stub
7	Graeme Morrison (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

From the editor: Change the world

News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'

WikiProject report: Some more politics

Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters

Gallery: "One small step..."

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #168

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

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
- Past: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:50, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31

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 use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [12]
You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [13]
You can change your options to see bigger images. [14]
You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [15]
You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [16]

Problems

There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [17]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [18]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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35	Federal Signal Corporation (talk)	Add sources
495	Indent style (talk)	Add sources
27	Azerbaijan–Israel relations (talk)	Add sources
91	Air horn (talk)	Add sources
20	Sporting Club (talk)	Add sources
210	Worms, Germany (talk)	Add sources
23	KSEE (talk)	Cleanup
62	St. Mary's College of Maryland (talk)	Cleanup
270	Neil Tennant (talk)	Cleanup
200	Long Range Acoustic Device (talk)	Expand
3,629	Monaco (talk)	Expand
369	Google Wallet (talk)	Expand
44	Port security (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
7	APNEL (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
32	Anti-frogman techniques (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
78	Legal outsourcing (talk)	Merge
40	Shadism (talk)	Merge
19	Pop! The First 20 Hits (talk)	Merge
160	Debi Derryberry (talk)	Wikify
198	Al-Biruni (talk)	Wikify
2,487	Iran hostage crisis (talk)	Wikify
1	John L. Koprowski (talk)	Orphan
2	Alberta Culture Days (talk)	Orphan
5	Sea Marshal (talk)	Orphan
130	Underdog Kids (talk)	Stub
3	Richie Pugh (talk)	Stub
7	Nino Ramsby (talk)	Stub
3	Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer) (talk)	Stub
8	Alan Wace (talk)	Stub
1	Dave Lewis (rugby union) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate

Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?

Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues

Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit