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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

• WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

• Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

• News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

• Featured content: A fistful of dollars

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

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Wikidata weekly summary #180

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
  • Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
  • Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
  • More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1], [2]
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
  • Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
  • Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
  • Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
• Development
  • Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
  • Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
  • More work on birthday present
  • More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
  • Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
  • Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
  • Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-43

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

• Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [3]

Problems

• A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [4]
• Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [5]
• The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [6]

Changes this week

• Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [7]
• Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [8][9][10][11]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday October 28, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, to see if the chapter is able to fiscally sponsor more ongoing projects tied to our core mission of expanding and diversifying free knowledge. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday October WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 17:44, 22 October 2015 (UTC) Bonus events, RSVP now for our latest upcoming editathons: October 25 - AfroCROWD + DAWN @ Brooklyn Public Library November 4 - Aphra Behn Society @ Grand Summit Hotel (Summit, NJ) November 10 - Basquiat: Still Fly 55 @ MoMA

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

• Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

• Featured content: A more balanced week

• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

• Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing

• Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #181

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
  • Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
  • The birth and death of German playwrights
  • Distributed stats
  • Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
  • Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
  • Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
  • Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
  • Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
  • Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
  • The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
  • The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
  • Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
• Development
  • ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
  • Worked on birthday present :)
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
  • Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2015 Newsletter September drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 25 editors who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. October blitz: The one-week October blitz, targeting requests, has just concluded. Of the nine editors who signed up, seven copyedited at least one request; check your talk page for your barnstar! The month-long November drive, focusing on our oldest backlog articles (June, July, and August 2014) and the October requests, is just around the corner. Hope to see you there! Thanks again for your support; together, we can improve the encyclopedia! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, KieranTribe, Miniapolis and Pax85. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2015-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [12]
• You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [13][14]
• When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [15][16]
• Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [17]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2015

• From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

• Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Community letter: Five million articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #182

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

• Discussions
  • How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.

    

    I love Wikidata because

    • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
    • Images from the party
    • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
    • Presents:
      • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
      • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
      • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
      • Special:Nearby by the dev team
      • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
      • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
  • Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
  • Past: Open Access Week
  • Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
  • Past: Tehran SFD (video)
  • Upcoming: ODI Summit
  • Upcoming: SWAT4LS
  • Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
  • Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
  • Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
  • The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
  • Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
  • Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
  • Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
  • Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
  • Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
  • We passed 15M items.
  • Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
  • All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
  • Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
• Development
  • Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
  • Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
  • Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
  • Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [18]
• If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [19]
• Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [20]

Problems

• On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [21]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.

Future changes

• A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [22]
• Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [23]

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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

• Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

• Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

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Wikidata weekly summary #183

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
  • Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
  • Semantic Cities
  • Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
  • Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
  • Past: semwebpro (slides)
  • Past: ODI Summit
  • Past: MozFest (etherpad)
  • Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
  • Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
  • Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
  • Ever noticed ranks?
• Development
  • Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
  • From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
  • Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
  • Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
  • Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
  • Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
  • Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
  • Worked more on making search work on mobile
  • Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-46

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

• Superprotect has been removed. [24]
• You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [25]
• JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [26]

Problems

• Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [27]

Changes this week

• Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [29]
• The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [30]

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys

• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity

• Gallery: Paris

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
  • Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
  • Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
  • Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
  • Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
  • Newest WikiProjects: Education
  • Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
  • Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
• Development
  • Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
  • Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
  • Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
  • Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
  • Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
  • Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [31]
• Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [32]
• The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
• Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [34][35]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon

Two options for this Sunday: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for one of two edit-a-thons this Sunday, just bring your laptop and an interest in participating! No special knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia knowledge is required, and there will be Wikipedia training workshops for new folks. Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sun Nov 22 Join at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the American Soviet Jewry movement. Women In Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center - 40th Floor 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Sun Nov 22 Join at the NY Academy of Sciences, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists. Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email. Bonus event: December 9 - WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

• Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

• In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

• Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
  • More mixin’, more matches
  • Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
  • Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
  • Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
  • Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
  • Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
  • MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
  • What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
  • You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
  • Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
  • Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
• Development
  • Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
  • Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
  • Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
  • Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
  • Decreased size of html of item pages
  • Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
  • More work on making the search on mobile work
  • Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
  • Fixing size of table of content on mobile
  • Prevented merging of items which link to each other
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Tech News: 2015-48

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

• A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [36]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 November 2015

• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone

• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations

• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia

• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films

• Featured content: Caves and stuff

• Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol

• Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins

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• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art

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Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Koavf
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
  • Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
  • Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
  • Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
  • Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
  • WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
  • Workshop i Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
  • New daily report on Mix'n'match
  • Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
  • French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
  • New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
  • A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
  • Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
  • Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
  • example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
• Development
  • Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
  • Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
  • Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
  • Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
  • Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2015-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

• On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [37]
• Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [38]

Changes this week

• Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [39][40]
• There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [41]
• Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [42]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon

Wednesday December 9, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday December 9 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Bonus events, RSVP now for our upcoming editathons: Saturday December 12 - Art & Law @ School of Visual Arts editathon Sunday December 13 - Black Film: AfroCROWD editathon

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

• Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

• News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

• In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

• Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

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Tech News: 2015-50

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

• Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [43]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [44]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [45]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [46]
• You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [47]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [48]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [49]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [50]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
• New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [51]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [52]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
    • notes
    • example queries
    • a few images
  • Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
  • Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
  • Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
  • Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
  • Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
  • Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
  • Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
  • The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
  • Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
  • We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
  • I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
  • Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
  • Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
  • Map of narrative locations in Denmark
  • Experimental REST API for Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
  • Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
  • Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
• Development
  • Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
  • Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
  • Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
  • Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
  • Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
  • Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
  • Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
  • Worked on PHP7 support
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 December 2015

• News and notes: ArbCom election results announced

• Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view

• In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

• Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?

• Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #188

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
  • Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
  • Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
  • Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
  • Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
  • query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
  • WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
  • Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
  • Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
• Development
  • Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Further work on a separate section for identifiers
  • Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
  • Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
  • Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
  • Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
  • Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
  • Getting ready for the holidays :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [53]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for the Wikimedia Developer Summit. The meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join. [54]

Future changes

• A new gadget manager will come next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0. [55]

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17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 December 2015

• In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

• In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

• Arbitration report: GMO case decided

• Featured content: An unusually slow week

• WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

• Traffic report: A feast of Spam

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Tech News: 2015-52

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 11 January 2016.
• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

• CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
• The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

• There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

• Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
• No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
  • You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
  • Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
  • Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
  • WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
  • WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
  • Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
  • Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
  • Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
• Development
  • <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
  • We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
  • Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
  • Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
  • Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
  • More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Saturday January 16: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference

Saturday January 16: Wikipedia Day NYC 2016

You are invited to join us at New York University for Wikipedia Day NYC 2016, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of Wikipedia 15, the project's global 15th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. Saturday January 16 Wikipedia Day NYC 2016 (RSVP on-wiki or at bit.ly/wikiday15). 10:00am - 7:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway (between Waverly and Washington Place) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 17:56, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 December 2015

• News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee

• Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended

• Featured content: The post-Christmas edition

• Traffic report: The Force we expected

• Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015

• In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"

• Gallery: It's that time of year again

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Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report Our 2015 End of Year Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; New record lows in the article backlog and on the Requests page; Coordinator election results; Membership news; Changes around the Guild's pages; Plans for 2016. – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by Jonesey95 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 January 2016

• News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent

• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE

• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided

• Featured content: Featured menagerie

• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2015

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 8, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2015
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Project At a Glance
As of Q4 2015, the project has:

• 199 Featured Articles
• 71 Featured Lists
• 10 Featured Topics

• 28 Featured Pictures
• 969 Good Articles
• 18 Good Topics

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• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements
• WP:VG Talk Page Digest

• Feature: Gender Declaration and the WP:VG Gender Gap
• Interview: Czar

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• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

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  • Assessment – talk
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  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

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Wikidata weekly summary #191

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • The Reference Wars
  • Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
  • Wikidata references from Microdata
  • Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
  • From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
  • Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
  • Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
  • Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
  • The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
  • IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
  • Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
  • Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
  • Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
  • New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
• Development
  • Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
  • More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
  • Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
  • We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
  • Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
  • More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
  • Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
  • References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
  • SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2016-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [56]
• You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [57]

Problems

• Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [58]

Changes this week

• The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [59]
• New file uploads will now be patrollable. [60]
• Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [61][62]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [63]
• The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [64][65]
• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [66][67]
• The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias

• Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF

• Editorial: We need a culture of verification

• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street

• Op-ed: Transparency

• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report

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• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee

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Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
    • Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
    • Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
    • Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
  • Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
  • Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
  • Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
  • Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
  • Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
  • Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
  • Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
  • Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
  • Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
• Development
  • Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
  • Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
  • Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
  • Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
  • Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
  • Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
  • Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [68]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [69]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [70]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [71]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 January 2016

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out

• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle

• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre

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• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place

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Tech News: 2016-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [72][73]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [74]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [75]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [76]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [77]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [78]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [79] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [80] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 27 January 2016

• Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy

• News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board

• In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote

• Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Replicator: Wikidata import tool
  • The Facebook of German Playwrights
  • Language usage on Wikidata
  • Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
  • Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
  • some visualizations:
    • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
    • Doctoral students of Gauss
    • Tributaries of the Danube
    • Children of Kronos
    • Influenced by Leibnitz
    • Graphs
    • Zika virus papers
  • KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
  • Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
  • Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
  • WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
  • Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
  • Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
  • Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
  • New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
• Development
  • und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
  • Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
  • Final touches on making search work on mobile
  • Finishing identifier datatype and section
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon

You are invited to join us and the AfroCROWD initiative at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for our upcoming editathon, a part of the Black WikiHistory Month campaign. Saturday February 6 Black Life Matters Editathon (RSVP). 12:00pm - 5:00 pm at NYPL Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue), by W 135th St The Wikipedia training and editathon will take place in the Aaron Douglas Reading Room of the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, with a reception following in the Langston Hughes lobby on the first floor of the building at 5:00pm. We hope to see you there!--Pharos (talk) 19:16, 1 February 2016 (UTC) (Bonus upcoming event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednesday, February 17)

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Tech News: 2016-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [81]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [82][83]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [84]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [85]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [86][87]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [88]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [89][90][91]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [92][93]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [94]

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Tech News: 2016-06

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

• Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [95]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [96]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [97]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [98][99]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [100][101]
• Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [102][103][104]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: HakanIST
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
  • Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
  • Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
  • How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
  • What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
  • We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
  • Andrew updated his maps
  • We crossed edit 300,000,000!
  • Graph example: matrices
  • Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
  • Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
• Development
  • Search now works on mobile
  • Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
  • Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
  • Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
  • Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
  • More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

• From the editors: Help wanted

• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost

• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board

• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?

• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background

• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

• Traffic report: Bowled

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February events and meetups in DC

Greetings from Wikimedia DC!

February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:

• On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
• On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
• On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
• On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
• On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
• On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!

Do you have an idea for a future event? Please write to us at info@wikimediadc.org!

Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

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Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim
Feb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim
You are invited to join us for an evening of social Wikipedia training and editing at the Guggenheim, with a workshop given by the Art+Feminism project to prepare for next month's major campaign, and a tour and edit-a-thon of Photo-Poetics: An Anthology. Tuesday, February 16 Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim (RSVP at Eventbrite - Participants have to bring their own laptops and power cords). 5:30pm - 8:30pm at Sackler Center Media Lab, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue; enter through 89th Street staff entrance
Wednesday February 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday December 17 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 00:27, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

• Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

• In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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Tech News: 2016-07

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 now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [105]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [106]

Problems

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [107][108]

Changes this week

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [109][110]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [111]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [112]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:57, 16 February 2016 (UTC)