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Invitation to our April event

You are invited...

Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Signpost article on wikiprojects

Hi Harej! I was wondering if you'd be interested in talking about WikiProject X or another WikiProject for the Signpost? :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:47, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Tabs

James, WiR has outgrown the current mainpage layout. I wonder if Project X can support our request (from when you and I last skyped) to change it from the current view to having tabs across the top? I don't recall if you said that Project X can switch us to tabs or not. If it can't, would I create a nightmare by trying it myself? I've never created tabs but I am hopeful that I can figure it out. The latest talkpage posts regarding issues with the mainpage are here.[1] Hope you have a nice weekend. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:37, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Rosiestep, I hope to figure out a working solution soon. The trick is to find a way to present all of the link options without overloading it and making it too complex. Thankfully I am meeting with Isarra at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Jerusalem and we can think of something. Harej (talk) 11:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, James. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:05, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

April Fools? Nope! Welcome to the Women Scientists worldwide online edit-a-thon during Year of Science

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Women Scientists - worldwide online edit-a-thon -
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April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity

Wednesday April 13, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Special this month, a Mini-Video opportunity for individuals to share their Wikipedia experiences (during pre-meeting, 6-7pm, and in side-office during regular meetup). A videographer will be present to record 1-3 minute Mini-Videos of folks informally speaking, sharing anything about their Wikipedia-related projects, whether an edit-a-thon they joined, an article they edited, or a class project they were a part of, etc.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

We will also place our chapter's votes for the global Wikimedia Foundation board.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

6:00pm - 7:00pm Mini-Video and social hour
7:00pm - 9:00pm Regular meeting: Introduction for new participants, Noshing, Chapter projects

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) 14:20, 6 April 2016 (UTC)


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Please review

Can i get you to look over Wikipedia:Dashboard make sure all looks and functions ok. New pages Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requested edits and Wikipedia:Dashboard/Wikipedians looking for help. Anyway to get Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requests for comment to work like the others...as in not in a nave template. PS note the page views since I linked this from a few special places.....hope we can keep up the views...need more looking at this page........All the best-- Moxy (talk) 08:18, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Looks excellent, Moxy. Thank you for all your hard work! As for making RFC consistent with the rest, I believe that would be up to Legoktm who runs the RFC bot. Harej (talk) 12:41, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8

Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon
  • The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
  • The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.


Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Something

Please improve upon this. I keep having trouble finding these links. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:30, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

WhatamIdoing, improve in what respect? The description pages are linked to from each row in the WikiProject Directory. Harej (talk) 15:08, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
I think the problem I'm having is that Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory and Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory are different pages, and I keep going to the old one. IMO the old one needs a more prominent link to the new one. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:39, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing, my long term plan is to replace the Council directory altogether with the new one. I have held off on proposing it for now because there is still a lot more work that needs to be done and I haven't had the time to prioritize it. Associated Phabricator task. At the very least, the structure should mirror that of the Council directory. Is there anything else you would recommend? Harej (talk) 22:00, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
A big, blinking link at the top that says "This is not the page you're looking for"?
More seriously, if WP:1.0 is dead, then it would be useful to know that. We could remove a fair bit of information in the old directory if that were true. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:28, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing, I think once the old directory is fully supplanted we can just use a redirect. :)
I am not sure it's within my discretion to say that WP:1.0 is outright deprecated. That may take a larger conversation. But I am not sure it is worth embedding all the links in the directory, either. As I see it (and I would appreciate any data that might contradict this), the primary purpose of the directory is finding WikiProjects, with finding the particulars of the WikiProject being secondary. I am concerned that having all the links to assessments and the like creates clutter for the directory; if people really want that information, they can visit the WikiProject.
So, considering the new WikiProject Directory as it exists now, is there anything that is missing that would make you or someone else object to replacing the Council directory with this one? (Other than certain WikiProjects being missing from the topical sub-directories, which I am aware of.) Harej (talk) 15:38, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
It might be good for us to figure out if 1.0 is "historical" now, regardless of the new directory.
The new directory doesn't have a direct link to the project page or its talk page, both of which might be useful. (You have to click through to the description to get to the project page.) Perhaps a (page • talk) link?
The old directory also includes links to collaborations and portals, both of which I think we can safely omit. But an indication of task forces might be helpful. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science#Medicine for an example. They're tolerably rare, though, so perhaps that is best left to project pages. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:03, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
We might want to wait a bit on the 1.0 question. m:Wikipedia to the Moon might be able to use the 1.0 team's infrastructure. We should see whether that sparks any revival. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:25, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing, noted on holding off on deprecating 1.0. I'd like to link directly to the project page, but I had to get the template to be very small in size in order for it to work while still being transcluded over 2,600 times on one page, meaning I had to sacrifice that link. Our upcoming MediaWiki extension will hopefully make that better by incorporating the in-line styling into a proper CSS file, meaning we can add more features while keeping the template size small. I do plan on associating task forces with individual WikiProjects; that will be done through Wikidata. See d:Q10656655 for example. (The conclusion I came to is that task forces are common enough that it's worth associating them with their parent projects, rather than just treating them as WikiProject equivalents.) Harej (talk) 00:20, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
I wonder if you could reduce the template size even further by putting even more of it on Wikidata.
BTW, I'm also interested in an "automagic infobox" for htwiki. If you know of good resources, please share. The Spanish Wikipedia seems to have done something with this. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Photography

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Women in Photography
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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration

File:Monir Portrait-exh ph021.jpg
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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa
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Learning Quarterly: April 2016

L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 8 / April 2016
 Learning Quarterly

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.

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James meet Alex, Alex meet James

Hi James. I'm meeting right now with @Kippelboy: and talking about Women in Red, which he has started up on the Catalan Wikipedia. I've told him about WikiProject X and how you are coordinating our technical support. He doesn't have that on his wiki and has interests in tech coordination/support/etc. I don't know if you have gone international yet, but if you are considering doing so, please reach out to Alex. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:03, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Kippelboy! Currently we are working on making an extension, CollaborationKit, to make WikiProjects easier to organize and run. One of the benefits of this is that it will be much easier to internationalize. And I am aware of how much the Catalan Wikipedia enjoys trying out with the new tools. (Speaking of which: have you seen Wikipedia Requests? We're accepting interface translations.) Once we have a working prototype of the extension, would you be interested in trying it out? Harej (talk) 17:23, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Women in red wikidata feed by language?

Would it be possible to have a 'women in red' page like this Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tasks/Wikidata Missing Article Report, but divided by language to be translated from rather than by the women's occupations? It would be useful for someone who is interested in translating articles from one language to the English Wikipedia and needs to identify articles which are well-sourced in the other language. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 02:46, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

That is a good idea, 211.30.17.74. I'd like to adapt the work used in Special:ContentTranslation so that it can be embedded on WikiProjects. (Currently tracking the idea in phab:T134278.) Harej (talk) 16:18, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks again! I find the wikidata feeds really useful to discover interesting topics to write about, and the new requests feature is intriguing. --211.30.17.74 (talk) 03:17, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference

Wednesday May 25, 6pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon.

This month's WikiWednesday Salon, we'll meet and share with the MediaWiki software development community, through a community learning night at NYU on May 25.

6:00 pm: Introduction, pizza
7:00 pm: MediaWiki tutorial, community involvement and extension ideas, novel uses of wiki technology
8:00 pm: State of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia / Wikimedia community
9:00 pm: Monthly WikiSalon in San Francisco video-link, casual bicoastal chat

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2016 (UTC)


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Spotlight on women entertainers!

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Women in Entertainment worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Wikiconference DC

I wanted to check something in the Conference Agenda, but I can't seem to find it. If I read correctly, you deleted it, possibly because it is archived elsewhere. Can you point me to it?--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:53, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Are you referring to [2], Sphilbrick? Harej (talk) 04:48, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.--S Philbrick(Talk) 11:15, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:You can see Hell from here listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:You can see Hell from here. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:You can see Hell from here redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix (talk) 19:11, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Sunday June 5: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon

Sunday June 5, 12-5pm: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon

Join us for a full Sunday of social Wikipedia editing at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to Women in Jewish History.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

Expanding coverage of Jewish women on Wikipedia makes these women and their creations discoverable, addresses the gender bias on Wikipedia in a positive way, and works to correct imbalances archival collecting practice and institutional projects that have historically silenced women's narratives.

A training session on editing Wikipedia will be held at 12:30 pm. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Make edits! Ask questions! Be bold!

Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York City, New York 10011

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:02, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

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LGBTQ worldwide online edit-a-thon

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Your opinion is valued

Please see: Category talk:WikiProjects by area#Poor choice for this category’s name. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:25, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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June 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday June 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Featuring special guest presentations on Wikipedia Asian Month and Wikipedia Club at Ohio State University.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (Art+Feminism! AfroCrowd!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 01:38, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

P.S. Stay tuned / sign up early for our AfroCrowd June calendar, June 29 Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA, and July 15 Wiknic @ Central Park, among other upcoming events.

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Women in Green

Hi James, yesterday was really productive. Looking forward to moving forward with those plans.

On a new subject, Dr. Blofeld came up with a great idea, "Women in Green", as a Good Article campaign under WP:WikiProject Women. Do you have time to create the logo for it --> Women in Green logo.svg before I speak on Saturday at Wikimania? I guess we'd be using #00FF00 unless Isarra thinks a different shade would be better? --Rosiestep (talk) 00:07, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

I suggest 0a4. It is much less eye-bleedingly solid. Mind you I just made it up on the spot and don't actually know what it'll look like in practice. -— Isarra ༆ 01:06, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Isarra sounds good! Can you ping me after you've created it? --Rosiestep (talk) 01:38, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
I've started a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green. Feel free to update with a new design/layout. It's just a project page for now, it's up to others if they want to turn it more into a sub project, it's pretty important focusing on the core articles too I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:42, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Wednesday June 29: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Wednesday June 29, 6-8:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art Library's second annual Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to LGBT art, culture and history.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

Also featuring a lightning talk by CUNY students at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives on a project to document local 1980s HIV/AIDS activism on Wikipedia.

Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.

Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA, 4 West 54 Street - between 5th/6th Ave, New York, NY 10019
Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:02, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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Women in Halls of Fame worldwide online edit-a-thon

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9

Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with many items

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.

Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 21:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Women's Health

The project page still looks great but the feeds are pretty messed up. How do they get fixed? Best Regards,

Barbara (WVS) (talk) 00:29, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

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Sunday July 10: WikNYC Picnic @ Central Park

Sunday July 10, 3-8pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Manhattan's Central Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck.

3–8pm - come by any time! The picnicking area is the southwest section of the Great Lawn, north of the Delacorte Theater, just inside the park at Central Park West between 81st & 82nd. Enter the park at West 81st St.
Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner!
Subway: 81st Street – Museum of Natural History, C Line

We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 14:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:/Members

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:/Members/Inactive

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Wikidata weekly summary #217

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Request tools

I saw the Meetup about Safe and Healthy at Work. I thought it was super interesting and I wanted to propose 3 topics Fire safety, hand washing and home safety.

But when I tried to add them to the request system (first time I use it...), only Fire safety appears on this list for the meetup. I can't have the others appear in the list of topics that could be worked upon during that edit-a-thon. Look: https://wpx.wmflabs.org/requests/en/search?searchtype=wikiproject&searchterm=WikiProject+Occupational+Safety+and+Health&language=en

I tried to add them several times and I tried to add Home safety again just 2 mn ago. But they do not get added to the list. Only Fire safety was properly added. Bug ?

Anthere (talk)

Anthere, the list on the meetup is based on being tagged by WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. Only fire safety was tagged, so I tagged the other requests. Harej (talk) 19:08, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
ok. I think I get it. You added the wikiproject category in the tool itself. All right. Thanks ! Anthere (talk) 07:39, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2016



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Wikidata weekly summary #218

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June metrics for Women in Red (copied here from there)

@Harej and The Earwig: I'm not sure if you're getting my pings, so I'll copy this over to your talkpage as well. As it's 21 July, we (Women in Red) need to review our June metrics. Is the list ready? If there's a problem, can you tell us, e.g. should I be working on the July metrics myself? --Rosiestep (talk) 14:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project

Please join us...

Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
A Women in Red worldwide, online editathon - 12 July till 12 August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons

You are invited...

Indigenous women editathon & Polar women editathon
Hosted by Women in Red - August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Season's Greetings

 Wishing you a Charlie Brown
Charlie Russell Christmas! 🎄
Best wishes for your Christmas
Is all you get from me
'Cause I ain't no Santa Claus
Don't own no Christmas tree.
But if wishes was health and money
I'd fill your buck-skin poke
Your doctor would go hungry
An' you never would be broke."
—C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1914.
Montanabw(talk)

Signing this so that it will be archived. Harej (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim

Saturday April 30, 1-6pm: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
File:Monir Portrait-exh ph021.jpg

On Saturday April 30, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia.

The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism.

New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support.

Can’t join us in New York? Visit our global MENA Artists Month partnership page to coordinate international and online events as well.

Time: Presentation: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Edit-a-thon: 2:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (88th Street), New York City, New York 10128
Guests should enter using the 88th Street entrance via the ramp at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

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Signing this so that it will be archived. Harej (talk) 23:50, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #219

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Learning Quarterly: July 2016

L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 9 / July 2016
 Learning Quarterly

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:21, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #220

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User:Messedrocker

This page appeared on the page as a broken redirect at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects/Userspace, as the page User:Harej does not exist on this wiki. There's two options: redirect to [[User talk:Harej]], or use a soft redirect to the meta page. I've put that one up so you can have a look at it. — Diannaa (talk) 20:59, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Diannaa, in principle the redirect should work since User:Harej is a global user page, but since it doesn't, the soft redirect is fine for now. Harej (talk) 21:04, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Okay great thanks. Otherwise it will sit on the broken redirects page indefinitely, which might lead to problems. Thanks for your understanding. — Diannaa (talk) 21:08, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #221

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This Month in GLAM: July 2016



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August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday Auugust 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Featuring special guest presentations on WikiVerse and Bringing Wikipedia to the Last Mile.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

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! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:20, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

P.S. Prep for our chapter elections next month in September (and add your candidacy!): Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Elections

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Wikidata weekly summary #223

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Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists

You are invited...

Women in Nursing editathon & Women Labor Activists editathon
Hosted by Women in Red - September 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Wikidata weekly summary #224

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
    • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
    • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
    • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29
  • Development
    • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
    • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
    • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
    • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
    • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
    • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
    • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)


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FYI

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council #WikiProject directory X2--Moxy (talk) 19:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #225

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
    • 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
    • Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
    • Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
    • English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
  • Development
    • RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
    • Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
    • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
    • Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
    • Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
    • Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
    • We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
    • Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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This Month in GLAM: August 2016



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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday September 14, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

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 will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent (UN Women and CFR!) and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities.

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. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

Along with the main meeting, hummus and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! 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) 18:06, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #226

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  • Development
    • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
    • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
    • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
    • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
    • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
    • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
    • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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It's been ten years, today.

Wishing Harej a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:10, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Support ?

Hello Harej

I have a rather stupid problem and I think you might be one knowing how to fix it. Look at this page : fr:w:Projet:Wikipack Africa Contenu/Accueil. If I reduce the width of the page, the top part overlap with the bottom part. I have no idea how to avoid that. I guess there must be a code or something to prevent it ? Do you happen to know how to fix that ? Thanks in any cases Anthere (talk) 09:12, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
Quality process on Wikidata

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Harej. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
  • A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons


October 2016

Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
Faciliated by Women in Red

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Wikidata weekly summary #228

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

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  • Development
    • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
    • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
    • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
    • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
    • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
    • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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10,000 Asia Challenge

Hi, I wondered if you or somebody you know would be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge? The idea is to showcase the work being done on wikipedia across the continent, and inspire more people to create and work on countries which might not usually get much attention and then possibly running some contests to bring in new editors. It would be a good framework I think to encourage more articles on Asian women next month, and possibly you could run contests then towards it and encourage people to create or improve more. If interested add your name to the participants and I'll consider setting something up later in the month.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:56, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red main page editing difficulties

Hi Harej. I have recently been creating quite a number of new Wikidata-based lists of redlinks for Women in Red. I have been using the format developed by emijrp as it not only displays the names but has sortable columns on the Wikidata description, dates of birth and death and image and provides access to the Q-item. Now that I have more or less completed country-by-country listings, I would like to add lists by occupation/profession. While your additions on the WiR page covering Women in architecture, artists, activists, scientists, technology, writers and philosophers have been useful, I think our participants would prefer the new display format for the various occupations. My problem once again is that I cannot edit the page as the "edit" for "From Wikidata" is not active. Could you or The Earwig sort this out and I can then begin to add links along the lines of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Scientists.--Ipigott (talk) 12:53, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello Ipigott. Sorry I have not responded sooner; my time has been occupied by WikiConference North America. The "list of lists" for Wikidata is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tasks/Wikidata Missing Article Report. I recommend adding the table-based lists below that. Let me know if you run into any issues (or if I've completely failed to answer your question). Harej (talk) 22:50, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
No need to apologize; you responded quite quickly. Thanks for sending me an editable page. I think it would be appropriate to replace the existing lists by table-based equivalents, adding new lists for all occupations of interest. There still seems to be an issue on the main page as there is no obvious way of editing the "From Wikidata" section. But I'll see how I get on in the meantime. Sorry to have bothered you when you were tied up with the conference.--Ipigott (talk) 07:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
    • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
    • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon

Sunday October 16, 2pm: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon

On Sunday, October 16, Wikimedia NYC will host a multimedia tutorial, workshop, and hackathon focused on Wikimedia Commons and the work processes for cultural multimedia wiki-projects.

The CommonsLab is the concluding "upload party" to the Wikipedia @ Open House New York Weekend photo scavenger hunt, and an accompanying Wikimedia Commons multimedia hackathon.

The event will take the form of a modified unconference, with sessions for photographers/creatives, editors/writers and hackers/software folks!

2:00pm - 8:00 pm at NYU ITP, Tisch School of Arts, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:35, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

And RSVP now for our next event after this, focusing on Latin American art and artists:

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Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Screenshot showing a dropdown menu with options for editing the table structure

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

  • You can now set text as small or big.[3]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[4] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[5]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[6]
  • At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[7]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[8] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[9]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


Wikidata weekly summary #231

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Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Saturday October 22, 10am: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Join us for a full Saturday of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Latin American artists.

The WikiArte (Wiki Arte y Cultura Latinoamerica) edit-a-thon is a global campaign to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Latin American arts and culture and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia.

Featuring an opening Artists' Panel at 10am, with Sol Aramendi, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, and Marisa Morán Jahn, to be moderated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio.

The Museum of Modern Art and Fundacion Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros are uniting with international allies to focus on the lives and works of Latin American artists, architects and designers. With keystone events scheduled for October 22 in New York City and other cities throughout the month (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Caracas, & others), the campaign aims to further similar goals to Art+Feminism.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Introductory training on the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given throughout the edit-a-thon. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.

10:00am - 6:00pm at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA, 4 West 54th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue)
Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 23:28, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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An invitation to November's events


November 2016

Announcing two exciting online editathons
Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers
as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with
Wikipedia Asian Month
Faciliated by Women in Red

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Wikidata weekly summary #232

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


Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.



  • Development
    • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
    • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
    • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
    • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:37, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #233

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

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23Wikidatabirthday&src=tyah #Wikidatabirthday] to get the news!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Learning Quarterly: October 2016

L&E Newsletter / Volume 3 / Issue 10 / October 2016
 Learning Quarterly

Frontpage:
#CEInsights
#WMCEE

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

WiR reports bot

Hasn't functioned for the past two days.--Ipigott (talk) 14:21, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Pinging Earwig. Harej (talk) 02:32, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Excuse me, I mean The Earwig. Harej (talk) 03:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
It looks like https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ is down. — Earwig talk 03:50, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there anything you can do to have it restored?--Ipigott (talk) 07:41, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
We can bother Magnus until he brings it back up. ;) In the long term, we should transition over to the much more reliable Wikidata Query Service. (I originally avoided that service because it didn't have something I wanted, but I believe it has it now.) Harej (talk) 08:08, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
  • I can see that something has happened as the list has at least been alphabetized. Perhaps WDQ has been fixed too. If so, I'll stop further manual additions.--16:55, 29 October 2016 (UTC)Ipigott (talk)

Everything seems to be back to normal with a huge new batch picked up by the bot today.--Ipigott (talk) 14:51, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

I do urge everyone using WDQ to switch to the official query service as soon as possible. WDQ is essentially unmaintained, incomplete, and makes a funny squeaking noise. At the moment, it seems to be down again; I'll just wait for it to recover, not much else I can do, really. --Magnus Manske (talk) 10:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #234

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

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016



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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)

Saturday November 12, 12-4pm: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences

Join us for a full Saturday of social Wikipedia editing at NY Academy of Sciences (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles covering Women in science for their second annual edit-a-thon!.

This event also coincides with the year-long celebration of the Academy's 200th Anniversary and a Women in Red online campaign.

Beginning and experienced Wikipedia writers are both welcome, and there will be helpers on hand to assist those new to editing the encyclopedia.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

And RSVP now for our other event this Sunday in Brooklyn, focusing on Indigenous communities and social justice:

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More Reports bot woes

Reports bot hasn't meaningfully updated Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics/November 2016 since 6 November. I've added perhaps 300 new women biography artices to wikidata in the past three days, none of which have made it to the report. Grateful if you'd look into it. Grateful also if you'd explain the underlying algorithm of report bot with respect to this report ... what is it using as an information source, how does it work. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed this too. You mentioned a more reliable option for interfacing with Wikidata. Can this not be integrated to avoid further problems?--Ipigott (talk) 16:13, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
The Earwig, do you have time to migrate the Wikidata missing article report to use WDQS instead? I can help with writing SPARQL queries if needed. Harej (talk) 19:10, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
The main thing is Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/wikiproject.json needs to have its wikidata_missing_articles entries (and metrics/wikidata_query entries, assuming you want to update that too) replaced with SPARQL queries. Updating the bot code to use the endpoint would only take a minute. — Earwig talk 21:28, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Looks like that did the trick for metrics! Lots of new stuff added. — Earwig talk 02:49, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
@The Earwig and Harej: Thanks very much. It seems to be working fine again today. Was WDQS used to solve the problem? If so, there will probably be less risk of breakdowns in the future.--Ipigott (talk) 10:15, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
That's exactly it, Ipigott. The reports were built on an older system that the creator himself has since said should no longer be used. We now use the Wikidata Query Service, which is professionally developed and maintained and is considered "production" grade rather than experimental. Harej (talk) 18:49, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks very much for all the work entailed in integrating WDQS. From now on we should be able to rely on a fully maintained infrastructure.--Ipigott (talk) 11:31, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #235

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
    • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
  • Development
    • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
    • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
    • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
    • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
    • Analysed queries used with Listeria
    • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
    • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
    • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
    • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
    • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:20, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Harej.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

WiR metrics

Stuck again.--Ipigott (talk) 11:14, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Ipigott, it seems to be unstuck now? Harej (talk) 22:32, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thanks very much. Did you see this discussion where it was hoped you could make some changes to the main WiR page?--Ipigott (talk) 08:25, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #236

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Harej. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Rfcquote

Template:Rfcquote has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Pppery 20:09, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red

File:Roza Shanina.jpg


December 2016

Two new topics for our online editathons
Women in Aviation and Women in the Military
Our geographical topic of the month is
Caribbean Women
During the period of 21 Nov - 8 Dec, we are also supporting
BBC 100 Women

Women in Red

(To subscribe: Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Your inactive bot(s)

Hello Harej. We currently show that you are the operator on file for at least one bot account that appears to be inactive. Please see the discussion and list of bots here: Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#Inactive bots over 5 years. If you are no longer operating your bot, no action is required - your bot will be marked as retired and have the bot flag removed. Should your bot be retired and you wish to revive it in the future, please request bot authorization at WP:BRFA. If you are still in control of your bot (including knowing its hopefully strong password) and wish to maintain the bot flag, please sign the table on the linked discussion. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 14:41, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #237

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

WikiConference North America Barnstar
Thank you for the role you played at WikiConference North America 2016. This year's conference could not have been a success without your contributions and we hope you will continue to be involved in 2017. On behalf of WikiConference North America - Gamaliel (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
    • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
    • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
    • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
    • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
    • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
    • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2016



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BBC 100 Women editathon and article creation

Hi Harej. As you created an article on this list (the 160+ articles created on the day of the BBC 100 Women editathon), can you take a look and help out, or add any articles you know that were created that might be missing? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


  • Events/Press/Blogs
    • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
    • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
    • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Festive greetings!

A barnstar of deep recognition for all your efforts on Women in Red throughout the year. Enjoy the end of year festivities and prepare to put more women on the world map in 2017. --Ipigott (talk) 08:47, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a very happy holiday season and a fulfilling 2017. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. --Another Believer (Talk) 18:07, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #241

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017 at Women in Red


January 2017

Women Philosophers & Women in Education online editathons
Faciliated by Women in Red

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 02:13, 29 December 2016 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Hi Harej - I hope you had a very merry holiday season. May your new year be happy and prosperous! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
    • Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
    • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
    • Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #242

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2016



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"420" collaboration

As a member of WikiProject Cannabis, you are invited to help organize the project's upcoming "420" collaboration, which is scheduled for April 2017. Yes, we're a few months away, but we're hoping to get the ball rolling by getting buy-in from experienced Wikipedia editors and seek help fleshing out some goals and ideas for a successful campaign. We also plan to conduct both on-wiki and offlline outreach so non-Wikipedias can also contribute. If you are interested in participating, please sign up and contribute to the ongoing discussions. All editors are welcome! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

help

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Wikidata weekly summary #243

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
    • Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
    • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
    • Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #244

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
    • Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
    • Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
    • Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
    • A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
    • More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:55, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Project Aquarium Fishes

Dear Harej, I updated the Aquarium_fish Portal some, I will try to put some more time and support to the WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. Do you think it makes sense to make a real mailing list, (like the one I just made for WikiProject_Zoo, replacing the present Newsletter_Subscription? Dan Koehl (talk) 17:29, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red


February 2017

Black Women & Women Anthropologists online editathons
Faciliated by Women in Red

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 20:55, 28 January 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #245

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
    • Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
    • Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
    • We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
    • Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
    • Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
    • Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
    • Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:41, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
  • Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
  • The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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Learning Quarterly: February 2017

L&E Newsletter / Volume 4 / Issue 11 / February 2017
 Learning Quarterly

Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!

Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns you can contribute to.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Ping

Ping --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 16:14, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #246

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now download query results as SVG images
    • When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
    • We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
    • Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
    • Setting up test system for lexemes
    • Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
    • Doing more groundwork for lexemes
    • Working on better integration with Elastic
    • More work on Federation
    • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
    • Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
    • Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
    • Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
    • Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2017



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Wikidata weekly summary #247

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
    • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
    • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
    • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:41, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

March 2017 at Women in Red

Welcome to...
Women's History Month worldwide online editathon
Facilitated by Women in Red
  • March 2017
  • Featuring: "Art+Feminism" and "The Women You Have Never Met"
  • Feel free to add articles in other languages too

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 22:53, 18 February 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #248

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
    • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
    • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
    • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:56, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #249

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
    • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.

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WiR pages

At an absolute minimum, we need the navbox on the main page. If the red link lists are not to be displayed, there should at least be a link. Thanks for your on-going work. (cc Rosiestep).--Ipigott (talk) 16:40, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Agree with Ipigott; we need the navbox on the mainpage, as well as every subpage. One of the reasons why we are such an active group is that we are nimble with our navigation. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:07, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Rosiestep and Ipigott, this edit caused the entire page to be subsumed under the "previous events" collapse box. I've now fixed it. Harej (talk) 19:37, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, James --Rosiestep (talk) 19:47, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
@Rosiestep and Harej: Yes, this is now much better. Access to the red links is better too but there is no indication which are crowd-sourced and which are Wikidata. And I see we no longer have announcements. I thought that was a useful section but maybe it's been removed by mutual consent.--Ipigott (talk) 10:25, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Ipigott, this is being work on; thanks for your patience. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Rosiestep: Thanks. I hope it will not take too long. We're now in Women's History Month and we might need to include important news or developments. Harej: How can I find the editing history of the main page? In particular, I would have liked to retrieve earlier versions of the announcements which now seem to have disappeared.--Ipigott (talk) 08:35, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Ipigott, announcements are restored now. (The original idea to remove them was based on the idea that they duplicate events, but that doesn't seem to be the case.) Harej (talk) 18:27, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks. Seems to be fine now. The main problem was duplication between tasks and events but that seems to have been fixed. Thanks for all your efforts.--Ipigott (talk) 07:35, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

GA script

Hi Harej, might you be able to help me with User:GA bot/goodarticles.php? I know you haven't touched it in a while, but it doesn't look like anyone has touched it since. I'm somehow counted at User:GA_bot/Stats, but my count doesn't display at WP:GAN and hasn't in years. As the count is used socially to determine whose work to review, it puts me and similar editors in a quandary. I imagine it has to do with signature parsing. Would you be able to take a quick look and see if it's a quick fix? czar 17:23, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Czar, I don't think that code is still in use. The good article process, as I understand, has been taken over by Legobot and Legoktm. Harej (talk) 18:28, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
User talk:Legoktm#GA bot doesn't count some signatures czar 17:27, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:

23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

CollaborationKit looks good

Just had a look at CollaborationKit thanks to the latest WikiProject X newsletter. Looks like good progress is being made. Glad something is happening with improving the tooling around WikiProjects! —Tom Morris (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #250

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2017



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Wikidata weekly summary #251

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
    • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
    • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
    • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
    • Finishing federation prototype.
    • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
    • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
    • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
    • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
    • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
    • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
    • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

05:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #252

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April events at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's
April 2017 worldwide online editathons.
Participation is welcome in any language.



(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) ----Rosiestep (talk) 18:40, 24 March 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Revert

I undid your revert - on a closer look I think maybe you reverted because a category was added that doesn't have any entries? Perhaps my revert was in error. It would help if you provided a reason in the edit summary in the future, thanks Seraphimsystem (talk) 10:09, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Seraphimsystem, the edit was part of earlier work to migrate category associations to the WikiProject's dedicated category where one existed. Thus categories like "Regional WikiProjects" would go in WikiProject Palestine, rather than on Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine, since the former exists. This is to streamline the category system. Harej (talk) 10:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Ok didn't know, sorry about that.Seraphimsystem (talk) 10:15, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #253

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

  • Development
    • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
    • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
    • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
    • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
    • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

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Legobot

Hi Harej. I noticed that at least in one instance, when two separate RfCs were created on the same page at approximately the same time (e.g. here, here), Legobot gave both of them IDs (here) but added only one of them to the RfC page (here). Is this by policy/design or by oversight? --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 20:08, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Legoktm might know. Harej (talk) 11:44, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2017



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May 2017 at Women in Red

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome
Ten years!

... the eighth! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Finding the pages

Remember my complaint at User_talk:Harej/Archive28#Something? I'm still having trouble finding those pages. I eventually found the WikiProject Directory by searching your talk-page archives for my complaint. (Someone at VPPR might be interested.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:37, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Harej/Archive27&oldid=1180010262"