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Wikidata weekly summary #225

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
    • 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
    • Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
    • Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
    • English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
  • Development
    • RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
    • Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
    • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
    • Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
    • Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
    • Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
    • We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
    • Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:19, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [1]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [2]
  •   When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [3]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [4][5]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [6][7]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016

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This Month in GLAM: August 2016

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Tech News: 2016-37

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

  • The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [9]
  • <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [10][11]

Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [12]
  •   A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [13][14]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #226

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
    • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
    • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
    • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
    • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
    • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
    • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

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88   ABU Song Festivals (talk)         Wikify
60   Cycloastragenol (talk)           Wikify
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2   Amimos (talk)           Orphan
14   Lakana (talk)           Stub
9   KROD (talk)           Stub
6   WWGB (talk)           Stub
7   Qterics (talk)           Stub
8   College of William & Mary School of Education (talk)           Stub
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Wikidata weekly summary #227

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
 
Quality process on Wikidata

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Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [17]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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4   Ahmed bin Sulayem (talk)           Merge
4   Ancient Ganja Gate (talk)           Merge
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760   Quartering Acts (talk)         Wikify
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September 2016

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This is BigPunisher. I didn't even threaten whatever his name is. This that bs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BigPunisher (talk • contribs) 01:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-39

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Recent changes

  • If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [18]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [19]
  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [20]

Problems

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [23]

Meetings

Future changes

  •   Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [24]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

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1,834   James Monroe (talk)   Cleanup
54   KLAS-TV (talk)       Expand
32   KQTV (talk)       Expand
34   KBTV-TV (talk)         Expand
67   Student governments in the United States (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
427   Colonial colleges (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
51   Colonial Parkway (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
2,560   Punk rock (talk)   Merge
10   WVSG (AM) (talk)           Merge
254   Metres above sea level (talk)           Merge
30   Hampton Roads Transit (talk)     Wikify
333   Lock (water navigation) (talk)   Wikify
179   Chakhnashvili Paata (talk)           Wikify
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2   Aloysius Bellecius (talk)           Orphan
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11   KJBO-LP (talk)           Stub
9   WLXE (talk)           Stub
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176   Virginia is for Lovers (talk)           Stub
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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