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A barnstar for you!
- Moved, see User:TCN7JM#Last but not least, my awards
The Signpost: 01 January 2014
- Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
- Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
- In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
- Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
- News and notes: The year in review
- Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
- Featured content: 2013—the trends
- Technology report: Looking back on 2013
The Signpost: 08 January 2014
- Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
- Traffic report: Tragedy and television
- Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit
- News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
- WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe
- Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology
Wikidata weekly summary #92
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
- A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
- Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams
- Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
- Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
- Development
- Adrian Lang joins the team
- Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
- Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
- No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
- More performance improvement work
- Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
- Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
- Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
- Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
- Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
- Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
- Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
- Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
Leaderboard
Hey! Will you be able to do the leaderboard soon? If not, no worries. --Rschen7754 02:17, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- If I don't do it within the next few hours, I won't be able to do it until Saturday evening, so I guess I can do it in a little while. Sorry you've not seen me on IRC. It's been a bit of a hectic week for me in the real world. TCN7JM 07:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- Done TCN7JM 12:42, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
The Center Line: Winter 2013
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Admin
Hey, would you like to be an admin? I read on your userpage that you'd like to be one some day. Philroc (talk) 16:56, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
- I ran last October, but I failed. I don't think it would be smart to run again now because:
- It's only been about eighty days since my last request. That's enough time to go around the world, but most people prefer six months or more between RfAs.
- My activity on Wikipedia has declined since October, so there's less of a reason to support me now than there was back then.
- I have a lot of stuff going on in the real world in the next few months so even if I miraculously passed I wouldn't be able to do much with the tools until, like, July.
- So now is not the time for me to run for adminship, and I don't think I should run again until maybe this autumn...if I'm still around and active by then. TCN7JM 22:47, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #93
- Events
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
- Reasonator gets extended functionality
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
- Showcase items: ethanol
- Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
- Development
- Enabled language links for Wikisource
- Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
- Database performance improvements
- Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
- Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
The Signpost: 15 January 2014
- News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
- Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
- Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
Wikidata weekly summary #94
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
- FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
- Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
- Showcase items: Cactaceae
- Development
- Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
- Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
- Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
- Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
- Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
- Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
- Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
- Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
- Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
- Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 22 January 2014
- Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
- News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
- Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
- Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
- Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
- In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager
- Traffic report: No show for the Globes
Your GA nomination of K-44 (Kansas highway)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article K-44 (Kansas highway) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 20:42, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #95
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities released on Wikidata!
- Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
- Development
- Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
- Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
- Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
- Moved Diff repo to Github
- Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
- Refactoring of the ValueView extension
- MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
- Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
- Fixed wbmergeitems issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Your GA nomination of K-44 (Kansas highway)
The article K-44 (Kansas highway) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:K-44 (Kansas highway) for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 00:22, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Now you get it
http://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=6658.msg147943#msg147943 --NE2 06:13, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Hah. Funny. But...you're aware that that is vandalism, correct? TCN7JM 06:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- I had no idea. Next you're going to tell me that I can't draw maps on bathroom walls. --NE2 06:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- Of course not. Why should I be forced to look at such profanities as I-238 whenever I've to use the restroom? TCN7JM 06:38, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
- I had no idea. Next you're going to tell me that I can't draw maps on bathroom walls. --NE2 06:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 January newsletter
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
- 12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
- Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
- WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
- TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
- Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.
Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
- WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
- News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
- Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
- WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
- News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
- Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion
Wikidata weekly summary #96
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- See the office hours logs at meta
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM slides
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Autopatrolled
Hi TCN7JM, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! AdmrBoltz 23:42, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. TCN7JM 23:45, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 February 2014
- Technology report: Left with no choice
- Featured content: Space selfie
- Traffic report: Sports Day
- WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
Wikidata weekly summary #97
- Discussions
- Reasonator
- By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
- The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
- The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
- You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
- Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
- Development
- Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
- Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
- Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
- Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
- Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
- Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
- Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
- Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
- Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
- Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 19 February 2014
- News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
- Technology report: ULS Comeback
- WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
- Featured content: Holotype
- Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
Wikidata weekly summary #98
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
- Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help develop the next summary here!
The Signpost: 26 February 2014
- Featured content: Odin salutes you
- WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
- Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
- Traffic report: Snow big deal
- Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism
WikiCup 2014 February newsletter
And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:
- Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
- Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
- WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).
Other competitors of note include:
- Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
- Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.
After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #99
- Discussions
- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
- Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
- Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
- Development
- Made loading items a lot faster
- Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
- Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
- Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
- Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
- Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
- Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item