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Tech News: 2017-12

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

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [1]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [2]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [3]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [4]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [5]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [6]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2017)

The Czech philosopher Radovan Richta (1924–1983) originated the theory of technological evolution. Hello, KGirlTrucker81. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Technological evolution Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bird of prey • Tandoori chicken Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 27 March 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports: film scripts
  • Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• 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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-13

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

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [8]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [9][10]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

TheDJ

Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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This Month in Education: [March 2017]

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 2 |March 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. Be sure to check out the full version, and past editions. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team!

In This Issue

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From the Community	High School and Collegiate Students Enhance Waray Wikipedia during Edit-a-thons Approaching History students as pilot of Education program in Iran An experience with middle school students in Ankara Wikishtetl: Commemorating Jewish communities that perished in the Holocaust
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using Saileshpat (talk) 19:07, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2017)

Hello, KGirlTrucker81. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Synchrony and diachrony Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Technological evolution • Bird of prey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 April 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #254

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office ^connect
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
    • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
  • Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command: wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function: remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function: simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-14

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

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [11]
• The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [12]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [13]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [15]

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2017)

Hello, KGirlTrucker81. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Corruption in the United States Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Synchrony and diachrony • Technological evolution Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 10 April 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #255

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Zolo
  • New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
  • Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
  • Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
  • There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
  • New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
  • Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
  • New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
  • You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
  • Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
  • Help us translating this short message in your language

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable integers
    • Longest streets of Moscow
    • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
    • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
    • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
  • Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: list of duos

• Development
  • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
  • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
  • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2017-15

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

Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [16]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [17]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [18]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue III, March 2017 Headlines Argentina report: Images donation Australia and New Zealand report: Serving up Citations Basque Country report: Children Literature project's second edition Belgium report: Open Belgium; Just For The Record; Staff from libraries educated Bulgaria report: First museum photo-thon in Bulgaria Côte d'Ivoire report: Editing during International Francophone Contribution Month France report: Workshop in Berlin; WikiTrain in Rennes; Edit-a-thon at the National Archaeological Museum Germany report: Change Your mind Italy report: Art+Feminism in Italy... and maps Macedonia report: Macedonian voivode and Rivers in Macedonia Netherlands report: Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform; photohunt Egmond aan Zee; Iconographia Zoologica Spain report: Wikipedia course at La Yutera Library Sweden report: Art+Feminism 2017; Connected Open Heritage; Digikult; Art on Wikipedia; Writing about Gothenburg's history; Updating image description with new research results UK report: Wicipop project in Wales; Wikimedia UK's impact report USA report: Art + Feminism Open Access report: Over 600 new multimedia files, e.g. on embryos, robots and bouncing water droplets Wikidata report: More maps, more features, more properties, more data! WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia Conference Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Center Line: Spring 2017

Volume 9, Issue 1 • Spring 2017 • About the Newsletter

Departments

• • Assessment roundup
• • Portal selected articles and pictures

Features

• • Commons and Wikidata revamp
• • Route logs for junction lists
• • Finding friends at the DOT
• • This space for rent

State and national updates

• • State updates
• • In other project news...

Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2017)

Hello, KGirlTrucker81. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Page footer Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Corruption in the United States • Synchrony and diachrony Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 April 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2017-16

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

Recent changes

• You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [20]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [21]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [22]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [23]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [24][25]

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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #256

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

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
• "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
• More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
• You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
• Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
• Newest database reports: list of anthology films

Development

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 18 April 2017 (UTC)