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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

• Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

• WikiProject report: Genetics

• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

• Featured content: Browsing behaviours

• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google

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Wikidata weekly summary #108

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
  • upcoming: Data Science Day
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
• Development
  • Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
  • Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
  • Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
  • Started work on monolingual text datatype
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [1]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [2]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [3]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [4]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [5]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [6][7]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [8] [9]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [10] [11]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [12]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [13] [14]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?

• Traffic report: TMZedia

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three

• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne

• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision

• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum

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Wikidata weekly summary #109

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

• Discussions
  • RfC: Developer user group
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
• Development
  • Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
  • More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
  • Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
  • Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
  • Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:01, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [15]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [16]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [17] [18]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [19] [20] [21] [22]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [23] [24]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [25]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [26] [27] [28]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [29]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [30]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [31] [32]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

• Featured content: On the rocks

• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
  • Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
  • upcoming: SMWCon
  • upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
  • Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
  • The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
  • The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
• Did you know?
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
• Development
  • We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
  • Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
  • Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
  • Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
  • Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
  • Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
  • Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
  • Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
  • Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
  • Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
  • Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
  • More testing on simple queries
  • Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [33] [34] [35]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [36] [37]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [38] [39]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [40] [41]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [42] [43]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [44] [45]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [46]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [47] [48]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [49] [50]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [51]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

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Wikidata weekly summary #110

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Draft articles
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata office hour log
  • Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
• Play the Wikidata Game
• Development
  • jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
  • Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
  • Continued working on monolingual text data type
  • Continued making messages easier to understand
  • Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 16:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [52] [53] [54] [55]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [56] [57]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [58] [59]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [60]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [61]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [62]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [63] [64]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [65] [66] [67]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [68] [69]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #111

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

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)