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This Month in Education: July 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #169

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
  • Enable Flow on Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
  • PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
  • Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
  • 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
  • Interested in art movements? Check out this
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
  • Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
• Development
  • Minor fixes to property edit mode
  • Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
  • Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
  • Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
  • Fixed the counting of references
  • Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
  • Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 19:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32

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

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [2] [3] [4] [5]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [10]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
• Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
• News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
• WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
• In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
• Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
• Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
• Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

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Wikidata weekly summary #170

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
  • Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
  • @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
  • Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
  • Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
• Development
  • Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
  • Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
  • The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
  • The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
  • Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
  • Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
  • Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
  • Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
  • We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:20, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33

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

• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [11]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [12]
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [13]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [14]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [15]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [16] [17]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [18] [19]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [20]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [21]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [22]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [24]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [25]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [26]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VII, July 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina France report: A GLAMourous summer Germany report: Fancy new apps based on GLAMorous data Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments at Toscana Foto Festival and two new GLAM projects Netherlands report: Radio broadcasts; historic atlases; GLAMetrics Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth, municipalities and concerts Sweden report: Hedemora; Mapillary UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: GLAM in Philadelphia Special story: Share what you know about Photo Events Open Access report: Wikimania: Citations and video Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in July 2015.

• Konkani Wikipedia goes live
• “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
• Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
• Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
• ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
• In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
• Forum: Community voices on paid editing
• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
• Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
• Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 04:48, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #171

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

• Discussions
  • Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • cooperation between free content projects
  • A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
  • Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
  • Upcoming: SmartDataConference
  • A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
  • WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
  • Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
  • See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
  • You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
  • SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
  • Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
  • Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
  • 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
  • Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
  • Newest tools: Suggestor
• Development
  • Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
  • Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
  • Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
  • References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
  • First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
  • Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
  • Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
  • The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
  • Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
  • Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

Recent changes

• Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27] [28] [29]
• Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [30]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [31] [32]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [33]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [34]

Meetings

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

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
• In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
• Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
• Travelogue: Seeing is believing
• Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 16:00, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #172

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: SmartData conference
  • Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
  • Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
  • New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
  • New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
  • EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
• Development
  • Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
  • Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
  • Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
  • Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
  • More work done on Unit Selector widget
  • Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
  • Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
  • Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
  • More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 12:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [35]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [36]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 August 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
• Op-ed: Wikimania – can volunteers organize conferences?
• News and notes: Re-imagining grants
• In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
• Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
• Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
• Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #173

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
  • Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
  • First version of units is ready for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
  • Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
  • Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
• Development
  • Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
  • Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
  • Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
  • API breaking change coming soon
  • API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
  • Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
  • Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
  • Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as mw.wikibase.label which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885)
  • Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
  • Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
  • Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
  • Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
  • Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
  • Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
  • Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36

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

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [37][38]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [39]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [40]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [41]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [42]

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)