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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.
Problems
- Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on
Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn offExpand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [1] - There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [2]
Changes this week
- When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say
Visual editing
andSource editing
instead ofSwitch to visual editing
andSwitch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [3] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (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 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [4][5]
- Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If
-{
is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and%2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use-{
in a template:{{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [6][7]
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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #260
- Discussions
- Development input: Client editing prototype
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
- Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
- Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
- You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
- WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
- TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
- OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
- The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
- Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
- Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
- The constraint table has been updated
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
- Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
- Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
- Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Help adding missing statements to properties
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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 ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [8]
- The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [9]
Problems
- The
mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try addingmw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and});
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [10]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [11]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [12][13]
- Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If
-{
is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and%2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [14][15]
Older unreported changes
- Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this. [16][17]
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
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 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
- There will be a
<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [18]
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22:18, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #261
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
- Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
- Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
- Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
- Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
- Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
- Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
- We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
- An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
- Query examples:
- Plants with associated emoji (source)
- Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
- HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
- Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
- Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
- Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation
- Development
- Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
- Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
- Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
- Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
- Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
- Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
- Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #262
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
- New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
- Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
- Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Eurowings app uses Wikidata
- Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
- Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
- Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
- Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography
- Development
- Attending WikiCite
- Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
- Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
- Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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
- Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [19]
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 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [20]
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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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 new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [21]
- When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [22]
- You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [23]
- New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [24]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [25]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [26]
- You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [27]
- When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [28]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
- String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [29]
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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [30][31]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [32]
- The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
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19:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #263
- Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
- Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
- Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
- Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
- MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
- Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
- Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
- Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"
- Development
- Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
- Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
- Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
- Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
- Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
- Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
- Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
- Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
- Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
- More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
- More work on statements (phab:T165480)
- More work on constraints (phab:T167107)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, Help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
This Month in GLAM: May 2017
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