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Tech News: 2018-02

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

On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #294

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Jarekt
- New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
- Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
- Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
- Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
- The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
- Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
- There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
- Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
- The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
- Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
  - Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
  - Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
- You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
- A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
- How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
- New tool: Hub

Did you know?

Development
- Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
- Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
- Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
- Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
- Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
- Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:34, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XII, December 2017
Headlines
France report: Rituels grecs; Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Germany report: a good working key to GLAM collections Indonesia report: Collaboration with library in Yogyakarta Italy report: Activities in December Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 3 Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence Spain report: Wikipedia Club Sweden report: Inputs to the National Library Strategy; Statens maritima museer; Tekniska museet; Riksantikvarieämbetet Tunisia report: Upload Book Ukraine report: Promoting and Community events in Libraries USA report: Fire & Ice & Goats Wikidata report: Happy Q34812! WMF GLAM report: Share Case Studies and Feedback with WMF, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons Research, and Blog Highlights Calendar: January's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2018-3

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

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mahir256
- Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
- WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
- Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
- Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)

Did you know?

Development
- Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
- Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
- Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
- Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
- Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
- Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
- Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
  - add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
  - keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
  - make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
  - mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
  - lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

News and notes: Communication is key

In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Communication is key

In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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Tech News: 2018-04

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

Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [21][22]

Problems

With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

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

Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

Events/Press/Blogs
- Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
- PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
- The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
- Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nominations for the Steward elections are open
- Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
- repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
- Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
- Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
  - External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
- Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
- Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
- Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
- Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
- Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
- Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
- Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 08:10, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #297

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

Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
- Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
- Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
- Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
- Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
- Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

- Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
- Showcase items:

Development
- Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
- Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
- Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
- Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
- Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
- Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
- Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
- Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
- Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
- Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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 later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [25]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

ISCB Wikipedia Competition 2018: entries open!

ISCB Wikipedia Competition 2018: entries open!

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and WikiProject Computational Biology are pleased to call for participants in the 2018 ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia and its sister sites play an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 31 Dec 2018.

For students/trainees: Entry to the competition is open internationally to students and trainees of any level, both as individuals and as groups. Prizes of up to $500 will be awarded to the best contributions as chosen by a judging panel of experts; these will be awarded at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland in July 2019. As in previous years, the ISCB encourages competition entries for contributions to Wikipedia in any language, and contributions to Wikidata items.

For teachers/trainers: We encourage you to pass this invitation on to your students, and consider using the competition as part of an in-class assignment.

Further details may be found at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computational Biology/ISCB competition announcement 2018.

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This Month in Education: January 2018

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

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