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Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
- Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
- Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese
- Development
- When a
{{#statements:…}}property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799) - Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)
- When a
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- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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Wikidata weekly summary #242
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
- Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
- How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)
- Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour
- This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
- Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
- Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
- We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.
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- Add statements to items without
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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 datasets on Commons. You can see an example that is using this source. [1]
- There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. You can try it out.
- When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate extension the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
- The new version of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar).
- MoodBar has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis. [3]
The liveoption for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated. [4]
Problems
- Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:configin the address bar and setnetwork.cookie.maxPerHostto 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]
Changes this week
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia Developer Summit.
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (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
- You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [6]
Problems
- video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [7]
Changes this week
- There is a new magic word called
{{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [8] - When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [9]
- You will be able to use
<chem>to write chemical formulas. Before you could use<ce>.<ce>should be replaced by<chem>. [10] - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [11]
- The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS:
#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }You can change the number50to make it look like you want to. [12] - Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [13]
- When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [14]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 January 2017
- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
Wikidata weekly summary #243
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
- EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
- Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
- Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: lighthouses at night
- Development
- Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
- Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!
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Wikidata weekly summary #244
- Discussions
- New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
- QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
- List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Development
- Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
- Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
- Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
- Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
- A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
- More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).
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- Monthly Tasks
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor. [15]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #245
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
- The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
- The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
- Newest database reports: film festivals this month
- Development
- RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
- Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
- Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
- We plan to provide
og:imageOpen Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859) - Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
- Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
- Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
- Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors
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- Help develop the next summary here!
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- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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
Changes this week
- ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [17]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).
Future changes
- The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [18][19]
- The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)