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Wikidata weekly summary #155

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

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)

Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Hydropower

Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone

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Tech News: 2015-18

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

  • All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [1] [2]
  • You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [3]
  • There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [4]
  • You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [5]

Problems

  • Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [6]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
  • It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [7]
  • You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [8]
  • You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [9]
  • You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [10]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Today's articles for improvement

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 22 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 05:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #156

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

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2024)

An example of home appliances is this washing machine and clothes dryer combination.
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Home appliance

Previous selections: Hydropower • Geography of Niger

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2015.
About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 01:34, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-19

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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [11]
  • There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [12] [13]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [14]

Meetings

  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [15]
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [16]

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15:14, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #157

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

Today's articles for improvement

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 23 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 09:23, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population.
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Food industry

Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower

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Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [17] [18] [19]
  • You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [20]
  • The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [21] [22]

Problems

  • There was a problem that caused slow editing. [23]
  • Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [24]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [25] [26]
  • You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [27]
  • When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [28]
  • When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [29]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2015.
About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 01:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)

Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections:

Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower

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Today's articles for improvement

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 24 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 09:26, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #158

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • 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, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
  • References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [30]
  • You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [31]
  • The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [32]
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [33] [34]
  • UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [35]
  • A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [36]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2015)

Chocolate most commonly comes in dark (bottom), milk (middle), and white (top) varieties
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections:

Previous selections: Deep frying • Food industry • Home appliance

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TAFI week 22, 2015 update

Please note that Personality is also an article for improvement for week 22, 2015. Thank you.

Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 01:18, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 25 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 06:51, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [37]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [38] [39]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #160

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

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2015)

The term Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off road capabilities and sparse bodywork.
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections:

Previous selections: Types of chocolate • Deep frying • Food industry

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Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 26 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 05:44, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [41]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [42]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [43] [44]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [45]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Hello Quenhitran 

 My source for that information is Pastor Baxter himself. I met with him in early 2000 and he claimed Jesus would come back by the end of the year 2000. And of course he is still claiming that Jesus is coming back with other dates....Just saying...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.173.50.158 (talk) 05:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

  • Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
  • If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
  • If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #161

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

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2015)

An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections:

Previous selections: Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate • Deep frying

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Tech News: 2015-24

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 this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [46] [47]
  • If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [48]
  • When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [49]
  • The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [50]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [51]

Future changes

  • If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [52]

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17:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 27 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 19:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2015.
About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 19:27, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #162

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

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)

People enjoying the nightlife at a nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections:

Previous selections: Sport • Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate

Get involved with the TAFI project! You can...
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Tech News: 2015-25

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

  • Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [53]
  • Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [54]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [56]
  • If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [57] [58] [59]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement weekly vote

  • Hello Quenhitran:
This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaborations has begun at Week 28 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 20:47, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Albion College

I work at Albion College and can scan and send yearbook pages that show past sororities. Would you prefer to just replace my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.32.235 (talk) 14:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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