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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?
- 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
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.- 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
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This Month in Education: November 2014
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.- 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
The Signpost: 03 December 2014
- In the media: Embroidery and cheese
- Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
- Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
- WikiProject report: Today on the island
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Wikidata weekly summary #136
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- 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?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- 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
- 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
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
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.unstripto get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix.
Future changes
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The Signpost: 10 December 2014
- Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
- Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
- Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
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Wikidata weekly summary #137
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Misplaced Pages etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- 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!
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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+ForCmd+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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The Signpost: 17 December 2014
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
- Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
- Traffic report: A December Lull
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Wikidata weekly summary #138
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- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Misplaced Pages
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- 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
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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The Signpost: 24 December 2014
- From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
- In the media: Wales on GamerGate
- Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
- WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
- Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased
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WikiProject Beetles
Hi! I am Gug01 and I noticed that you are in WikiProject Beetles. Now so am I. I was thinking that we could work together to revive the project. Cheers! Gug01 (talk) 16:21, 26 December 2014 (UTC) Gug 01
- Thanks. I am interested in providing illustrations and references and in Wikidata information on beetles. Am currently drafting a Wikidata-related research proposal where taxonomy and identification keys are likely to be covered in some form, which may provide opportunities to work on beetles too. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-01
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes
- There are no technical changes this week.
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The Signpost: 31 December 2014
- News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
- Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
- Featured content: A bit fruity
- Recent research: Misplaced Pages in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting
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Wikidata weekly summary #139
- Discussions
- Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
- new RfC: CoI editing
- Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
- Events/Blogs/Press
- We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
- The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- wikidata4research4all
- There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
- Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
- The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
- Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
- Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
- Development
- Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
- Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
- 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!
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This Month in Education: December 2014
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.- Uruguay: Misplaced Pages Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
- Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Misplaced Pages with great success
- Serbia: First Misplaced Pages ambassador at the University of Belgrade
- Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
- UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
- Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
- Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Misplaced Pages Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs
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