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Tech News: 2018-45

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 TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [1]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (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 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue X, October 2018 Headlines Belgium report: Erbstuecke edit-a-thon; Women in Tech edit-a-thon; Wiki Club Brussels; Wikidata workshop + party Brazil report: "There is no reason not to participate in a GLAM-Wiki initiative": an interview with the director of the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy Estonia report: Estonian art and geoscience collections finding their way to Commons Finland report: (RE)Photographic autumn France report: GLAMWiki 2018 Tel Aviv; City of Grenoble Germany report: GLAMorous Conferences Netherlands report: ‘More Gelders Heritage available via Wikimedia’ by Erfgoed Gelderland; Writing week Friesland; Wiki Techstorm Norway report: Wiki Loves Monuments and wikinobel Poland report: Heirlooms - locally and internationally Serbia report: The growing GLAM Sweden report: Roundtripping Project, Books Import and Wikidata Imported to SOCH Switzerland report: Built heritage conservation on Commons; les sans pagEs at a Modern art museum UK report: Wikidata in Oxford USA report: Wikiconference North America Culture Crawl WMF GLAM report: Documentation survey, Structured Data on Commons consultations, blog posts and conferences Calendar: November'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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This Month in Education: November 2018

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A new academic course featuring Wikidata at Tel Aviv University How we included Wikipedia edition into a whole University department curriculum Meet the first board of the UG Wikipedia & Education The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts The education program has kicked off as the new academic year starts in Albania The first Wikimedia+Education conference will happen on April 5-7 at Donostia-Saint Sebastian Using ORES to assign articles in Basque education program What to write for Wikipedia about? Monuments! Wikifridays: editing Wikipedia in the university Writing articles on Wikipedia is our way of leaving legacy to the next generations

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Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [3]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [4][5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (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 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [7]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [8]

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 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [9]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [10]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID
  • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [11]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [12]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (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 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [14]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #340

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Events
  • Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
  • Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
  • Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
  • Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
    • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
    • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
    • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
    • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
    • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
    • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
    • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
  • Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
  • Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
  • The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
    • Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
  • Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
  • Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
  • Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
    • External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
    • External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
    • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
    • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
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    • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
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• Development
  • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
  • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
  • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
  • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
  • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
  • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
  • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
  • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
  • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
  • More work on improving the interface of the termbox 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.
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)