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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

There'sNoTime,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

I realize you're probably sick of templates, but thought I'd post anyways . Mop is just down that way in the closet, just where you left it, if you want it back. Glad to have you back in any capacity. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes

Galobtter

Orangemike

BorgQueen • Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes

Addshore

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

1. At least 8 characters in length
2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
3. Different from their username

User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.

• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

• Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
• Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Wikidata weekly summary #345

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?

• Events
  • Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon

• Press/Blogs
  • Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
  • Europeana Innovation Agenda
  • The Hand-editor’s Tale
  • mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
  • Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
  • The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
  • A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
  • There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
  • Happy New Year! ^(L40653)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
    • External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
    • Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
    • Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
    • Catchphrases (source)

• Development
  • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?

• Events
  • Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
    • Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
    • AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
    • How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
    • Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
  • Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
  • Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
  • Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
  • Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
    • External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
  • Query examples:
    • Articles about obituaries (source)
    • Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
    • French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
    • People after which a state is named (source)
    • "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
    • Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
  • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
  • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
  • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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 writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
• On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

take care

I just read the newsletter, and was shocked to see your name in the list of desysops. Its sad. But I feel hopeful to see you back sometime as a full time editor. Especially after reading User:There'sNoTime/retired for a bit. Take care of yourself, enjoy the real life and on-sea piracy, and best wishes for your real life. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:33, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• I live pretty close to a couple pretty great lakes if you're ever interested! Good luck and have fun! -- Dolotta (talk) 02:07, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

• I left for a year around the time I was diagnosed with cancer. Whatever your issue is, take care of yourself and surround yourself by people who support you. Take care. Wikipedia will be here if/when you want to return. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:18, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue XII, December 2018 Headlines Armenia report: Cooperation with Yerevan Drama Theatre Named After Hrachia Ghaplanian; Singing Wikipedia (continuation); Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation) Australia report: 2019 Australia's Year of the Public Domain Belgium report: Writing weeks German-speaking Community; End of year drink; Wiki Loves Heritage photo contest Brazil report: Google Art and GLAM initiatives in Brazil India report: Collaboration with RJVD Municipal Public Library Italy report: Challenges and alliances with libraries, WLM and more Macedonia report: Exhibition:"Poland through photographs" & Wikipedia lectures with children in social risk Malaysia report: Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia Portugal report: Glam Days '18 at the National Library of Portugal Sweden report: Hats 🎩🧢👒🎓 UK report: Oxford USA report: Holiday gatherings and visit to Internet Archive Wikidata report: Wikidata reports WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: pilot projects and multilingual captions Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #347

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

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
  • VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
  • Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
  • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
  • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
  • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
    • External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
    • External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
  • Query examples:
    • Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
    • Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
    • Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
    • Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
    • Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
  • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
  • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
  • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
  • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
  • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
  • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

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

• Events
  • Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
    • Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
    • Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
  • Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
  • Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
    • External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
    • External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
  • Query examples:
    • Images of exoplanets (source)
    • Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
    • Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
    • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
    • Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality

• Development
  • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
  • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
  • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
  • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
  • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
  • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
  • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
  • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
  • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
  • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
  • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:06, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [12]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [13]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [14][15]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

20:36, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

February 2019 at Women in Red

February 2019, Volume 5, Issue 2, Numbers 107-111 Happy February from Women in Red! Please join us for these virtual editathons. February events: Social Workers Black Women February geofocus: Ancient World Continuing initiatives: Suffrage #1day1woman2019 Help us plan our future events: Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage: Socialites Twitter - Forgotten African American Suffragists Women in Red image uploads to Commons Image attribution: Johntex (CC BY-SA 3.0) Subscription options: English language opt-in International opt-in Unsubscribe --Rosiestep (talk) 20:10, 26 January 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #349

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
  • How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
  • Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
  • Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
  • Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
  • City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
    • External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
  • Query examples:
    • Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
    • Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
    • Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany

• Development
  • Started development on Shape Expressions
  • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
  • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
  • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
  • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

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Tech News: 2019-05

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

• The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems

• When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [18]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019

• Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

• News from the WMF: News from WMF

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

• Essay: How

• Humour: Village pump

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

Enterprisey • JJMC89

BorgQueen

Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

Enterprisey

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
• Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

• A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

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