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Tech News: 2019-06

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 later this week

• It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (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 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
  • The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
  • Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
  • Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
  • Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
  • Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
  • Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
    • External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
  • Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
  • Query examples:
    • Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
    • World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
    • timeline of writing systems (source)
    • family tree of Donald Duck (source)
    • Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
    • schools of magic by number of students (source)

• Development
  • Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
  • Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
  • Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
  • Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
  • Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
  • Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)

• 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) 21:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue I, January 2019 Headlines Armenia report: Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation) Belgium report: Public domain day edit-a-thon; Hack The Gender Gap edit-a-thon Brazil report: GLAM Wiki at the Digital Collections Conference and new partnership with Casa de Rui Barbosa Colombia report: First report from GLAM in Wikimedia Colombia Czech Republic report: Prachatice Museum France report: #1lib1ref; Museum of Brittany Indonesia report: Indonesian Wikisource meetup; more documents from Museum Tamansiswa Italy report: Celebrating Wikipedia and remembering the Holocaust Norway report: Diversity in Glam projects Serbia report: GLAM Winter in Serbia Sweden report: Hackathon with the National Library of Sweden UK report: Wales and Oxford USA report: Snowdays/Shutdowns but Lots of Open Access Wikidata report: New year, new newsletter format WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons Calendar: February'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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 13:59, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

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 use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February 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.

18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351

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

• Events
  • Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
    • External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
    • External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
  • Query examples:
    • Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
    • Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
    • Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
    • Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
    • Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
    • Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
    • Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)

• Development
  • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
  • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
  • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
  • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
  • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
  • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
  • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
  • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
  • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

• 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) 20:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Welcome back!

Katie^talk 12:27, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

@KrakatoaKatie: 😻 - TNT ^💖 20:36, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Two kittens!

Welcome back.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:35, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: :3 - TNT ^💖 20:36, 15 February 2019 (UTC)