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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.

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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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Request on 05:18:33, 7 August 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by 58.7.162.61

• 58.7.162.61 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Sir James McCusker (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I article I wrote yesterday for Sir James McCusker was written on behalf of my employer Mr Malcolm McCusker CV AVO QC who is the son of Sir James and wanted the article of his life published. Mr Malcolm McCusker is the reference that should be quoted for this article.

58.7.162.61 (talk) 05:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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James McCusker

Hello,

I am not sure if i am in the correct location but yesterday i created an article about Sir James McCusker - apparently it has been declined due to lack of reference. I should have noted that the article was written on behalf of my employer Mr Malcolm McCusker QC who is the son of Sir James McCusker. He wishes his father's history to be placed on Wikipedia. Is that an acceptable reference?

Kind regards
Ursula Sujdovic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ursula Sujdovic (talk • contribs) 05:43, 7 August 2015

Hello Ms/Mrs. Sujdovic.

Unfortunately rhat would not be a good source for two reasons. One, it is not a verifiable source since re-users and readers need to be able to reasearch all the informton mentioned on Wikipedia by themself and find the same information. Two, it does not prove a subjects notability to be included in an encyclopedia. Here below is a simplified explanation why:

Articles generally require significant coverage

in reliable sources

that are independent of the topic.

Acceptable sources include, but not limited, or guaranteed to be: newspapers, peer-reviewed journals, etc. independent written and published.

I hope I could shed some lights on things, if not, please have a read of: Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, Wikipedia:Notability (people). Thanks (t) Josve05a (c) 22:08, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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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.

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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)

Request on 14:04:18, 11 August 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Ewert333

• Ewert333 (talk · contribs)
  • User:Ewert333 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello,

I recently rewrote the Clearfield, Inc. article that was deleted due to a copyright violation. My appologies for copy pasting, I was completely in the wrong and have re-written the part that was cited as a copyright violation.

I am not entirely sure how this works now, I put everything back together and moved it to the "talk page"... but not your talk page? Can you please advise? I just was hoping for another shot at this to get on Wikipedia and be done with this. Thank you very much for your edits.

Best regards, ewert333

Ewert333 (talk) 14:04, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Ewert333 (talk) 14:04, 11 August 2015 (UTC) Hello,

I recently rewrote the Clearfield, Inc. article that was deleted due to a copyright violation. My appologies for copy pasting, I was completely in the wrong and have re-written the part that was cited as a copyright violation.

I am not entirely sure how this works now, I put everything back together and moved it to the "talk page"... but not your talk page? Can you please advise? I just was hoping for another shot at this to get on Wikipedia and be done with this. Thank you very much for your edits.

Best regards, ewert333

--Ewert333 (talk) 14:05, 11 August 2015 (UTC) I recently rewrote the Clearfield, Inc. article that was deleted due to a copyright violation. My appologies for copy pasting, I was completely in the wrong and have re-written the part that was cited as a copyright violation.

00:45:17, 12 August 2015 review of submission by Ursula Sujdovic

• Ursula Sujdovic (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Sir James McCusker (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Ursula Sujdovic (talk) 00:45, 12 August 2015 (UTC) Good Morning,

I have resubmitted my page for review (I added a number of references which I did not have in place in the original document) I have now a number of newspaper articles which I would like to submit as references but due to the fact that the article was written in 1995 their is no digital reference - is it possible to scan the article for Wikipedia to verify and allow it to be added to my document.

Kind regards Ursula Sujdovic

twitter guy

Hi, Jonatan. Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook) 07:31, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@Nahnah4: Hi :) So basically, we migh know it is going to be released, but we do not have any reliable sources that can verify the name or date of when it will be published. We need to have a source which can prove that this is going to be the name of the album. Without it, it is just speculations (highly educated guesses). (t) Josve05a (c) 07:37, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, I know, I was saying that a user is removing it although the release date is written as "TBA". Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook) 07:41, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Well, with this edit you add the title to the artilce, without a real source that that is going to be the name of it. It's not just the date that needs a source. (t) Josve05a (c) 07:43, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

This is the source. Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook) 07:49, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Then include that in an edit summary or as a footnote. Wikipedia readers should not need to look up on twitter and Google to find where we got our information, even if it is public knowledge.

@Nahnah4: And please do not call users stupid, even if it is off-wiki. Still falls within WP:NPA. (t) Josve05a (c) 07:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Ok lol Nahnah4 (talk | contribs | guestbook) 07:54, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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Questions about Orphan tag on my article

Thank you for assisting me with my first article, Deb Sofield.

I tried linking to another appropriate article, the Order of the Palmetto, which the person I wrote about received in 2008. As I understood your tag, I needed to add her name to that existing article appropriately, which I did, using an appropriate reference. My edits were removed by Yopie and labelled as advertising and promotional. Yopie has also tagged my Deb Sofield article in the same way.

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Message from Richard Lucas

hi

I'm not an experienced wikipedian..

I've been trying to edit the entry from my great Grandfather Frederick Anderson, Footballer and businessman which I noticed you are also editing....

I have various sources that I can quote and scans of documents but I am not at all sure how to add them. Can you advise. 

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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!
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  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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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)

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Your draft article, Draft:Damien Lawson

Hello, Josve05a. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Damien Lawson".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Rich^T|C|E-Mail 19:24, 23 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
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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)

Channel 7

Good Afternoon,

I work for CHNLD artist management, we represent 7 are looking to revamp his Wikipedia page. What is the proper procedure to update his page? I also need to change his name from Channel 7 to 7 Aurelius. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnyCHNLD (talk • contribs) 18:51, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello JohnyCHNLD. The proper persedure it to read Wikipedia:Paid editing (guideline) as well as Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. From there you will be able to find link which will discuss how to make changes, as well as how to reqest others to make changes if you belive you can not stay neutral. I wish you luck, and happy editing! (t) Josve05a (c) 07:48, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Arthur (season 20)

The article Arthur (season 20) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced future content.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. SummerPhD^v2.0 18:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

/* August 2015 */

I think you're looking at the term "constructive" subjectively. While it may not appear friendly in nature, its accuracy is undeniable and has been pulled from credible sources. I appreciate your help and your vigilance. Have a lovely evening. TheGoldenAuthor (talk) 02:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)TheGoldenAuthor

It did not seem to comply with WP:BLP or WP:NPOV ("talent for alienating others"), since it wasn't a quote (with a footnote) from a reliable source, which is needed. (t) Josve05a (c) 02:59, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

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.

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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)