Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Lowercase sigmabot III (talk | contribs) at 00:27, 4 January 2015 (Archiving 2 discussion(s) from User talk:Daniel Mietchen) (bot). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This is an archive of past discussions with User:Daniel Mietchen. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Wikidata weekly summary #135

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
  • Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
  • Picture this!
  • Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
  • Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
  • IRC office hour on Wednesday
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
  • Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
  • VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
• Development
  • Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
  • Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
  • Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
  • Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
  • Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
  • Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
  • Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
  • Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
  • JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
  • Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
  • Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
  • Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
  • Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
  • Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
• 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

This Month in Education: October 2014

• Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
• Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Misplaced Pages articles
• Greece: Misplaced Pages in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
• Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Misplaced Pages in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Misplaced Pages Network
• Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Misplaced Pages
• Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
• Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Misplaced Pages
• Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Misplaced Pages
• Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Misplaced Pages
• WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
• Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more

Headlines · Highlights · Single page · Newsroom · Archives · Unsubscribe

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:55, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2014

• France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
• Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
• Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Misplaced Pages
• Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Misplaced Pages
• Sweden: Successful Misplaced Pages assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
• Global: Misplaced Pages Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
• Global: Iberoconf discusses Misplaced Pages in education
• Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
• Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales