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Wikidata weekly summary #346
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?
- Events
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
- AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
- How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
- Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
- Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
- Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
- Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
- Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
- External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
- Query examples:
- Articles about obituaries (source)
- Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
- French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
- People after which a state is named (source)
- "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
- Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
- Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
- Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
- Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
- Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
Recent changes
- RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]- codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
- On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.
Problems
- In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).
Meetings
- Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.
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Wikidata weekly summary #347
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
- VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
- Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
- The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
- New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
- Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
- External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
- External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
- Query examples:
- Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
- Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
- Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
- Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
- Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
- Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
- Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
- Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
- Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
- Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
- Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
- More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)
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!
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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
- You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
- Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
- Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new
wrapperparameter now. You can use it for selectors like.mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]
Problems
- When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]
Changes later this week
- You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
- Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
- The AbuseFilter variable
minor_edithas been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15
Wikidata weekly summary #348
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
- Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
- Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
- External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
- External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
- Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
- Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
- Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
- Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
- Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
- Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
- Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
- Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
- Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
- Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [12]
Recent changes
- The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category
Pages with unreviewed translationsto translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category inSpecial:TrackingCategorieson Wikipedias. - https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.
Problems
- When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [13]
- MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [14][15]
- Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [16]
Changes later this week
- You will be able to use template styles in the
Modulenamespace. [17] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #349
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
- Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
- How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
- Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
- Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
- Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
- City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
- External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Started development on Shape Expressions
- Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
- Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
- Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
- Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons
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!
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 servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.
Problems
- When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [18]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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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
- It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [19]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (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 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #350
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
- Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
- Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
- Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
- Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
- Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
- External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
- External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
- Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
- Query examples:
- Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
- World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
- timeline of writing systems (source)
- family tree of Donald Duck (source)
- Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
- schools of magic by number of students (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
- Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
- Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
- Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
- Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
- Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
- Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)
- 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!
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 use the
amboxCSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you useamboxthere are classes you can use.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (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 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #351
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
- External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
- External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
- Query examples:
- Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
- Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
- Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
- Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
- Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
- Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
- Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
- Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
- Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
- Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
- Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
- Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
- Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
- Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
- Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
- Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)
- 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!
Growth team updates #5
Welcome to the fifth newsletter for the new Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
New projects for discussion
We began the "Personalized first day" project with the welcome survey so that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughts in the previous newsletter, and after discussing with community members and amongst our team, we are now planning two projects as next steps: "engagement emails" and "newcomer homepage".
- Engagement emails: this project was first discussed positively by community members here back in September 2018, and the team how has bandwidth to pursue it. The idea is that newcomers who leave the wiki don't get encouraged to return to the wiki and edit. We can engage them through emails that send them the specific information they need to be successful – such as contact from a mentor, the impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
- Newcomer homepage: we developed the idea for this project after analyzing the data from the welcome survey and EditorJourney datasets. We saw that many newcomers seem to be looking for a place to get started – a place that collects their past work, options for future work, and ways to learn more. We can build this place, and it can connect to the engagement emails. The content of both could be guided by what newcomers say they need during their welcome survey, and contain things like contact from a mentor, impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
Initial reports on newcomer activity
We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and design parts of our future projects.
- Welcome survey: the initial report on welcome survey responses is available here. Some of the main findings:
- Most users respond to the survey, giving it high response rates of 67% and 62% in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, respectively.
- The survey does not cause newcomers to be less likely to edit.
- The most common reason for creating an account in Korean Wikipedia is to read articles—not for editing—with 29% of Korean users giving that responses.
- Large numbers of respondents said they are interested in being contacted to get help with editing: 36% in Czech and 53% in Korean.
- Understanding first day: the initial report on what newcomers do on their first day is available here. Some of the main findings:
- Large numbers of users view help or policy pages on their first day: 42% in Czech and 28% in Korean.
- Large numbers of users view their own User or User Talk page on their first day: 34% in Czech and 39% in Korean.
- A majority of new users open an editor on their first day – but about a quarter of them do not go on to save an edit during that time.
Help panel deployment
The help panel was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:
- About 400 newcomers in each wiki have seen the help panel button.
- About 20% of them open up the help panel.
- About 50% of those who open it up click on one of the links.
- About 5% of Czech users ask questions, and about 1% of Korean users ask questions.
We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Wikipedia) has caused us to consider new features to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
How to create a good feedback page?
What is the way to built a good help page? What blocks you when writing an help page? Your replies will help to create better help contents to newcomers, that would be used on Help panel.
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Wikidata weekly summary #352
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: NewDataB
- New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)
- Events
- February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
- February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
- February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
- March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
- Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
- WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
- You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
- External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID
- Query examples:
- Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
- Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
- Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
- Fictional swords (source)
- Taxa named after women scientists (source)
- Timeline of red pandas (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
- Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
- Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
- Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
- Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
- Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
- Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
- More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile
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!
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 thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [20]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (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 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [21]
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Talk to us about talking
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
- First, sign up your group here.
- Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
- Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
- When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
- What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
- What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
- What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
- What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
- Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.
You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
Wikidata weekly summary #353
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)
- Events
- Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
- Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
- Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
- Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
- Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
- Card game generator
- Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
- Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
- WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
- If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
- External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
- External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
- Query examples:
- Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
- Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
- Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
- Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
- Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
- Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
- Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
- Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
- Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
- Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
- Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
- Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
- Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
- Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)
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!
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 version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions. [22]
Changes later this week
- When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [23]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (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 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.
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