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Tech news: 2013-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. [1]
• The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. [2] [3]
• The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25. [4]
• The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1). [5]
• Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [6] [7]
• The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [8]
• The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [9]
• Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [10]
• Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [11]
• The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [12]
• During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [13]
• There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [14]

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Tech News: 2018-30

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 log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [15]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [16]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #322

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:09, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [18]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [19][20]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [21][22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
  • populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
  • user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
  • Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
    • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
    • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
    • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
    • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
    • Music albums from Argentina (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
  • Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

• Development
  • Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
  • Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
  • Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
  • Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
  • Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
  • Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
  • Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
  • Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
  • Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #324

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bovlb
  • Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches

• Events
  • Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
    • OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
    • Maps based on Wikidata queries
    • Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
    • Wired story on the above

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
  • A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
  • We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
  • A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
    • External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID
  • Query examples:
    • minerals named after women (source)
    • Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre (source)
    • Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
    • Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
    • Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

• Development
  • Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
  • Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
  • We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
  • Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
  • Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
  • Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
  • Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
  • Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
  • Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
  • Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [23]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [24][25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #325

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bencemac

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
  • The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
  • A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
  • Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • list of badged items without claims has a new format
  • Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
  • The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
  • wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
  • New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
    • External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
  • Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
  • Query examples:
    • Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
    • Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
    • Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
    • Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
    • Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
    • Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
    • Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
  • Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
  • View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
  • Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [26]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [27]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

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 2018-08-20.

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Google Summer of Code:
    • GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
    • JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
  • Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
  • Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
  • New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
  • WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
  • Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
  • d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
  • New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
  • Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
  • Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
    • External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
    • External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article
  • Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
  • Query examples:
    • Federated query with Nobel.org: Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners (source)
    • Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
    • Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
    • Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
    • Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
    • Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query) (source)
  • Showcase items: Crawford

• Development
  • Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
  • Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
  • Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
  • Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
  • Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
  • Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
  • Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

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Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [28]

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #327

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Abián
  • New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
  • Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
  • October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
  • Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
  • Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
  • It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
  • More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
  • The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
  • These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
  • Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
  • Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
  • 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
    • External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
    • External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID
  • Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of libraries in Austria (source)
    • Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
    • List of Windows games released this year (source)
    • Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
    • People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes
  • More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
  • Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:13, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

Recent changes

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [29]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [30]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [31]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [32]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [33]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [34]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (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 up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [36][37]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [38][39]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [40]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [41]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [42]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [43]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [44]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [45]

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16:48, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #328

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

• Events
  • 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
  • 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
  • September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
  • Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
  • Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
  • Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
  • Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
  • A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
  • A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
  • SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
    • External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
    • External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
  • Query examples:
    • License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
    • Gallery of Gods and other deities
    • Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna (source)
    • Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
  • Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata

• Development
  • Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
  • Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
  • Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
  • Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
  • Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:15, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #329

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

• Events
  • Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
  • The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
  • Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
  • Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
  • Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
  • Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
    • External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
    • External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nobel Prize winners in WIkidata that miss a LIBRIS id (source)
    • Recent video game items with associated sitelinks and identifiers (source)
    • Video game titles available on more than ten platforms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions

• Development
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
  • Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
  • Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
  • Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
  • Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
  • Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
  • Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:52, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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 added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [46]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [47]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [48]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [49]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [50]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [51]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

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Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [52]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [53]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [54]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [55]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #331

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ayack
  • New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
  • Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
  • Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
  • TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
    • External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
    • External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maps and libraries in Boston and Cambridge (source)
    • Timeline of mobile phones (source)
    • Average height of figure skaters by gender and discipline (source)
  • New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages

• Development
  • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
  • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:10, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #332

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: P171, When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used, Findagrave removed as a source for information, How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?, Updating References for External Data

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
  • Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
  • There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
  • Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
    • External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
    • External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bounding boxes for a set of maps
    • Where were UK ambassadors educated? (source)
  • People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)

• Development
  • Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
  • Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
  • Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
  • More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
  • More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:00, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [57][58]

Problems

• New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [59][60]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:35, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [61]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [62]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #333

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado, باسم

• Events
  • 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
  • 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
    • Quarry et Query : introduction à SQL et SPARQL
    • GLAM & Wikimedia : bilan des projets en cours en Suisse et perspectives avec Wikidata
    • Quoi de neuf sur Wikidata ?
    • Éditer une œuvre d'art sur Wikidata, et plus si affinités
  • 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
  • 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
  • SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
  • Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
  • Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikidata-cli new features:
  • wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
  • wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
• Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
• Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
    • External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
    • External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
  • Query examples:
    • Characters from the Mario franchise by games in which they appear (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners who also has been TED speakers (source)

• Development
  • Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
  • Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
  • Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
  • Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:48, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #334

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

• Events
  • 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
  • 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
  • Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
  • From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
  • A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
  • A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
  • We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
    • External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
    • External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Age of receivers of Nobel Prize winners in Literature (source)
    • Places of birth of Nobel prizes winners per decade ([ source])
    • Things named after Ada Lovelace (source)

• Development
  • Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
  • Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:24, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [63]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [64]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [65]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [66]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:41, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #335

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
  • An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
  • Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
  • Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
  • La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
  • A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
  • Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
  • Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
  • A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
  • Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
  • You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
  • Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
  • Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
    • External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
    • External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lines and stations of the Amsterdam metro (source)
    • Workplaces of society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, traced on a map (source)
    • What other relationships do people have with their spouses? (source)
    • Signatures of French-speaking female authors (source)
    • Underground lines of London (source)

• Development
  • JSON-LD is now on beta
  • Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
  • Turn on Senses for Lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

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Tech News: 2018-43

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

• You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [67]

Problems

• Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [68]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [69][70]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:09, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
  • Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794

• Events
  • Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
  • Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
  • Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
  • Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
  • Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
    • Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
    • Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
    • Birthday User Template for userpage
    • List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
    • QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
    • DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
    • CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
    • Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
    • Senses for lexicographical data
    • Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
    • Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
    • cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
    • WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
    • Wikidata Comparison Tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
    • External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
    • External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of properties by datatype, with a (random) example property (source)
    • Number of depicted subjects by gender (source)
    • People at Svensktöversättarlexikon missing a LIBRISXL authority record ordered by number of articles in Wikipedia (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
  • Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes

• Development
  • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
  • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
  • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
  • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
  • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:57, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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

Recent changes

• You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [71]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [72]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

Recent changes

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [73]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [74][75][76]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [77]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)