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Tech News: 2017-50
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
URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [1]
A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [2]
If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [3]
Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [4]
Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [5]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.
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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello KGirlTrucker81/Signpost, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Backlog update:
The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
Outreach and Invitations:
If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.
New Year New Page Review Drive
A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.
General project update:
ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 25
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017
OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
User Group update
Global branches update
Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
Bytes in brief
Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 15 December 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.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [6]
Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #291
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the ?project= attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia
New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter
Did you know?
Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
Query examples:
Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
Newest WikiProjects: Narration
Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron
Development
Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)
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!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:52, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-12
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The last Global collaboration details report is now available (in English).
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis. [7]
"View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results. [8]
Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis. [9]
When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore. [10]
It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit. [11]
Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters. [12]
"Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed. [13]
Some small design improvements have been done. [14]
Content translation [More information • Help pages]
Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language. [15]
The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list. [16]
More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation. [17]
While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input. [18]
Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed. [19][20]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics. [21]
The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed. [22]
Miscellaneous
For wikis that use ORES, preferences for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent Changes tab and Watchlist tab. [23]
ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be able to use the Prediction filters. [24]
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
WikiCite 2018
Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
Moths and me
Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
GLOWing the extra mile
Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback
Did you know?
Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
Query examples:
Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
People born on the same day their mother died (source)
Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
Map of Christmas traditions (source)
Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
Newest database reports: list of Christmas films
Development
Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users
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) 11:54, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
New Years new page backlog drive
Hello KGirlTrucker81/Signpost, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!
We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!
The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.
Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:
The total number of reviews completed for the month.
The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.
NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!
Events/Press/Blogs
Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation
Did you know?
Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
Query examples:
Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)
Development
Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)
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!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:43, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.
Technical news
The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.
Arbitration
Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
In This Issue
From the Community
Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program
Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard
Wiki Camp Berovo 2017
WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators
Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects
Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert
Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza"
From the Education Team
Creating digitally minded educators at BETT 2017
In the News
Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia
"Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland
Science is shaped by Wikipedia
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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
On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [25][26]
Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [27]
Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [28]
Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [29][30]
Problems
Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [31]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [32]
The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [33]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [34]
Changes later this week
Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [35]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [36][37]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [38]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #294
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Jarekt
New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
New tool: Hub
Did you know?
Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
Query examples:
Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
Newest database reports: days of 2018
Development
Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)
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) 20:34, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2017
This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XII, December 2017
Headlines
France report: Rituels grecs; Wiki Loves Monuments 2017
Germany report: a good working key to GLAM collections
Indonesia report: Collaboration with library in Yogyakarta
Italy report: Activities in December
Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 3
Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland
Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence
Spain report: Wikipedia Club
Sweden report: Inputs to the National Library Strategy; Statens maritima museer; Tekniska museet; Riksantikvarieämbetet
Tunisia report: Upload Book
Ukraine report: Promoting and Community events in Libraries
USA report: Fire & Ice & Goats
Wikidata report: Happy Q34812!
WMF GLAM report: Share Case Studies and Feedback with WMF, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons Research, and Blog Highlights
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.
About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 21:38, 9 January 2018 (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
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [39]
There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [40]
Problems
Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [41][42]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [43][44]
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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #295
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Mahir256
Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett
Other Noteworthy Stuff
GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)
Did you know?
Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
Query examples:
Gallery of photography techniques
Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
Inventions by Republicans (source)
Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
Countries with no rivers (source)
Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
People who died on K2 (source)
Showcase items: 15 January 2018
Development
Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)
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) 21:47, 15 January 2018 (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
Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [45][46]
Problems
With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [47]
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 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [48]
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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #296
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)
Events/Press/Blogs
Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Nominations for the Steward elections are open
Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
Query examples:
Map of nuclear tests (source)
Languages with more than one writing system (source)
Subclasses of malware (source)
Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
Disney movie narrative locations (source)
Development
Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)
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) 08:10, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-01
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Bug fixes
When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [49]
On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [50]
Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [51]
Filter menu was opening upwards. [52]
ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [53]
Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [54]
Work in progress
Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [55]
The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.
Content translation [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [56]
Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [57]
Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [58]
The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [59]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [60][61]
The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
Prométhée, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets to customise Structured discussions interface.
The documentation is ready to be translated.
Future changes
Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [62]
Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [63]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Bug fixes
User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [64]
"Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [65]
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Closed request for comments: Defining account creators
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: none
External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
Query examples:
Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
Cinemas in Berlin (source)
Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
Movies filmed in Austria (source)
Newest WikiProjects:
Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references
Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
Showcase items:
Development
Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board
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!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Tech News: 2018-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [66]
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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 26
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018
#1Lib1Ref
User Group update
Global branches update
Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
Bytes in brief
Arabic and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Read the full newsletter
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:36, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: January 2018
Wikipedia Education globe
This Month in Education
Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
In This Issue
Featured Topic
Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts
From the Community
Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program
WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update
The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige
How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors
From the Education Team
The Education Survey Report is out!
Education Extension scheduled shutdown
Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 18:41, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.
Technical news
A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.
Arbitration
The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardizededitnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
AICAT grants proposal
ScienceSource grants renewal
Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
Events/Press/Blogs
From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
Statistics
January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
Query examples:
Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback
Development
Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)
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!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:14, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
Tech News: 2018-06
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [67]
The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [68]
Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [69]
Problems
Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [70]
Changes later this week
When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [71]
When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [72]
The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [73]
Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [74]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [75][76]
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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello KGirlTrucker81/Signpost, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.
Backlog update:
The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
New Year Backlog Drive results:
We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!
General project update:
ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. 20:32, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2018
This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue I, January 2018
Headlines
Australia report: We came, we saw, we conquered!
Basque Country report: Books, librarians, encounters and borrowed data
Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref, Côte d'Ivoire participates for the 2nd time
France report: Fonds André Cros; #1lib1ref; Library of Dinan; LATMOS
Germany report: sustainability beyond metrics
Indonesia report: Digitizing the letters from Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Yogyakarta continues
Italy report: Seventeen: let's talk and celebrate!
Macedonia report: Importance of digitization in 21 century
Netherlands report: Local heritage made available through Wikimedia & 3rd Wikicafé Tilburg
Norway report: Image collection from Armenia and Sami bibliography
Serbia report: #1lib1ref first time in Serbia: 786 references added!
Spain report: #1Lib1Ref
Sweden report: Photos, 3D and training with the National Heritage Board
Tunisia report: Upload Book
UK report: Oxford Wikidata project
Ukraine report: Libraries at the Forefront of Running All-Out Action for Ukrainian Wikipedia
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Press/Blogs
Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović
Other Noteworthy Stuff
IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools
Did you know?
Newest properties:
General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
Query examples:
Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)
Development
Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)
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!
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Tech News: 2018-07
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
TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [77][78][79]
Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.
Changes later this week
You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [80]
The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [81]
The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [82]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [83]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Wikipedia Library
The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
Administrator changes
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Arbitration
The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
