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Wikidata weekly summary #135

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This Month in Education: October 2014

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This Month in Education: November 2014

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #136

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
    • Statements on properties are now live
    • Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
    • The Game has a new mode: alma mater
    • Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
    • Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
    • English-Misplaced Pages now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Misplaced Pages article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Misplaced Pages editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Started work on units
    • More work on evaluating options for querying
    • Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
    • Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
    • Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
    • Work on improved label lookup performance
    • Wrapping up work on usage tracking
  • Monthly Tasks
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-50

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 software changes

  • All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
  • You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues.

Problems

  • There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar).
  • You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key.
  • It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better.
  • The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs.
  • (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix.

Future changes

  • Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate.

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

This Month in GLAM: November 2014



This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014

Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide
  • Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities
  • France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne
  • Germany report: Facts, fun and free content
  • Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin
  • Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC
  • Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Misplaced Pages courses in libraries; WWII editathon
  • Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet)
  • Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits
  • South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town
  • Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth
  • UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels
  • Special story: ORCID identifiers
  • Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling
  • Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #137

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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 software changes

  • You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Misplaced Pages. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
  • You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
  • You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
  • You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F.
  • VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
  • The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.

Future changes

  • The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
  • You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).

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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

Wikidata weekly summary #138

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

  • The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private.

Software changes this week

  • There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6.

Future changes

  • The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations.
  • A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis.

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)