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Status update 19 nov 2016

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Status update 19 nov 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-19.

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

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Status update 26 nov 2016

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Status update 26 nov 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-26.

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  • Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

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  • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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Status update 3 dec 2016

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Status update 3 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-03.

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

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Status update 10 dec 2016

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Status update 10 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-10.

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

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  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
  • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
  • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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Status update 17 dec 2016

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Status update 17 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-17.

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Status update 24 dec 2016

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Status update 24 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-24.

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  • Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
  • Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
  • Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
  • Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
  • Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)

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Anything to add? Please share! :)

Status update 31 dec 2016

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Status update 31 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-31.

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

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Status update 07 jan 2017

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Status update 07 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-07.

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Status update 14 jan 2017

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Status update 14 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-14.

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

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Status update 21 jan 2017

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Status update 21 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-21.

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  • New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

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  • Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
  • Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
  • Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
  • Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
  • A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
  • More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

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Status update 28 jan 2017

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Status update 28 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-28.

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

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Status update 04 feb 2017

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Status update 04 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-04.

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

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Status update 11 feb 2017

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Status update 11 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-11.

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  • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
  • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

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Status update 20 feb 2017

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Status update 20 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-20.

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

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Status update 27 feb 2017

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Status update 27 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-27.

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  • Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

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