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The Signpost: 31 December 2012 [edit]
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Wikidata weekly summary #39 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
- Extended tests for statements user interface
- Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
- Layout improvements in the user interface
- Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
- Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
- More work on AbuseFilter
- Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
- Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- 29C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
- You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
- Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 07 January 2013 [edit]
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Wikidata weekly summary #40 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
- Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
- Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
- Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
- Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:43814)
- Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
- Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (bugzilla:42064)
- Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
- Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
- Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
- Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
- Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
- Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
- Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
- Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
- Finished EntityDiff cleanup
- Discussions/Press
- Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
- Updates to time and space model
- Is there a need for bureaucrats?
- Planned improvement to the search field
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
- Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
- Hack on one of these
This Month in Education: January 2013 [edit]
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The Signpost: 14 January 2013 [edit]
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- Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
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Wikidata weekly summary #41 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
- We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
- Refactored sites code to improve design
- Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
- Added lots of new Selenium tests
- Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
- Implemented new change dispatcher script
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
- Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
- Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
- Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
- Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
- Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
- Discussions/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
- There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org
- Community Portal got a rework
- Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
- Open Tasks for You
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 21 January 2013 [edit]
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- News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
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Wikidata weekly summary #42 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Improved design of sites code in core
- Fixed SQLite compatibility
- Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
- Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
- Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
- Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
- Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
- More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
- AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
- The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
- Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
- Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
- Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
- Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reconfirmation of temporary admins
- Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
- Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
- Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
- Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
- Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Wikimedia Highlights from December 2012 [edit]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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The Signpost: 28 January 2013 [edit]
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- WikiProject report: Checkmate! – WikiProject Chess
- Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
- Arbitration report: Doncram continues
- Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems
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Wikidata weekly summary #43 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
- Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
- Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
- Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
- Working on property parser function for the client
- Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
- Resumed work on linked data interface
- References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
- Several minor user interface fixes
- Styling of the user interface for statements
- Selenium tests for references
- Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
- Worked on puppet
- Discussions/Press
- Abuse filter guidelines
- Policy on properties
- First external tool for output in RDF: [4] and [5]
- Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
- Events
- We’ve set the date for the next office hours
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
- Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
- Open Tasks for You
- Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 04 February 2013 [edit]
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- Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications
- In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
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Wikidata weekly summary #44 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
- Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
- Started work on query definitions
- Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
- Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
- Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
- More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
- Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
- New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
- JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
- Repaired and updated the demo system
- Resumed work on Linked Data interface
- Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
- There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
- Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
- Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
- Discussions/Press
- Signpost
- Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
- Events
- FOSDEM
- upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
- List of existing properties and their usage
- List of new proposed properties
- Open Tasks for You
- d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 11 February 2013 [edit]
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- Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
- News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
- In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
- Discussion report: WebCite proposal; request for adminship reform
- WikiProject report: Just the Facts – WikiProject Infoboxes
- Featured content: A lousy week
- Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters
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This Month in Education: February 2013 [edit]
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Wikidata weekly summary #45 [edit]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployment to English Wikipedia
- Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
- Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
- Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
- Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
- Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
- Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
- Started with valueview refactoring
- Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
- Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
- Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
- Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
- Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
- More work on Lua-based templates for entities
- Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
- Created query object
- Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
- Use of ID to directly address an item or property
- Search should give more of the complete matches now
- Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
- More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
- Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
- Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
- Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
- Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
- New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
- Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
- Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
- Ability to add items to claims by their ID
- Better handling of deleted properties
- More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
- We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
- Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
- Check out a well-done item
- Open Tasks for You
- Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
- Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Hack on one these
Wikimedia Highlights from January 2013 [edit]
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The Signpost: 18 February 2013 [edit]
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Wikimedia Highlights from February 2013 [edit]
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Thank you [edit]
Thank you for your work tagging the WMF Grants Program pages for translation! Best, Winifred Olliff (Grants Administrator) talk 16:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Regards, — Ralgis [mantis Religiosa] — 16:26, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
March Grants News [edit]
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| VOLUME 1 | MARCH 2013 | ISSUE 1 |
Eight projects have been awarded grants in this pilot round of the Individual Engagement Grants program. You can read more about them in our blog post. Many thanks to everyone who participated in this round! We look forward to seeing even more of your ideas and input in preparation for round 2, which begins on August 1st.
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Fundraising translation feedback [edit]
Hey Ralgis,
I wanted to ask for your help. As you may be aware we have been running banners on many language wikis. We have a lot of new content this year and I really want to conduct a thorough review of our translations. This is a combination of feedback from the community, readers, donors as well as those with professional translator experience. This will help us ensure the highest quality of translations used in our messaging.
To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to give us feedback for Spanish using This Link
Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.
Many Thanks
Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 20:19, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from March 2013 [edit]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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- Wikimedia Foundation highlights
- Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors
- Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web
- First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects
- Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users
- Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate
- Data and Trends
- Financials
- Other movement highlights
The Wikinewsie Group provisional board selection [edit]
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The Wikinewsie Group provisional board selection meeting time [edit]
Hi. This is to inform you that the meeting for the provisional board selection meeting for The Wikinewsie Group will take place in #wikinews-groupconnect on May 4, 2013 at 13:00 UTC, which is 8:00 in Mexico City, 9:00 in New York City, 15:00 in Berlin and 23:00 in Sydney. If you are interested in being on the provisional board but cannot attend, please comment at Talk:The Wikinewsie Group/Meetings to let the community know. --LauraHale (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Discouraged translation of Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2013/Candidates [edit]
Hi Ralgis, according to this log you discouraged translation of Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2013/Candidates at the beginning of this month. Please could you explain if this was intentional? Thanks! Thehelpfulone 14:02, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, Thehelpfulone. It was not intentional. Perhaps I clicked on the button by mistake. I'm sorry. I see it is now ready for translation. Is there anything I should do, or is it fine now? --Ralgis (talk) 05:43, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
- No problem, I managed to fix it but it was actually useful as now I know that discouraging a page from translation will also hide translations of that page from the aggregate group that it is in, which makes sense. Thanks for all the other translation admin work you do here! :-) Thehelpfulone 11:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
