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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 14:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:05, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
 * Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
 * Recent office hour logs now availible.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
 * Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
 * Newest task forces: País Valencià task force
 * Development
 * Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
 * Work on entity / item redirects
 * Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
 * Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
 * Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
 * EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
 * Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
 * Further work on merge module for the API
 * Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
 * Work on value formatters
 * Continue on moving tests to cucumber
 * Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Report a paper cut (see above).
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #74
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:35, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
 * Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
 * Request for input by ontology experts
 * Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
 * RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
 * Wikidata quality and quantity
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
 * URL datatype needs more testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
 * Development
 * mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
 * Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
 * More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
 * Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
 * Simple query special page
 * DataValues reorganization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

The Signpost: 11 September 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #75
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 16:15, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * State of the Map
 * Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
 * Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
 * Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
 * Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
 * Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
 * Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
 * Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
 * Development
 * Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
 * Started work on number data type
 * Worked on simple query special page
 * Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
 * Worked on JSON dumps
 * Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
 * Continued work on the merge items API module
 * Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
 * Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
 * Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
 * Continued moving to new browsertests framework
 * Bugfixes on autosummaries
 * Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
 * Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Are you free next Thursday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 05:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 September 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #76
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
 * Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
 * Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
 * The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
 * Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
 * New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
 * Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
 * Development
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
 * Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (53462)
 * Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (53157)
 * Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (54097)
 * Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
 * Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
 * More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
 * Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
 * Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
 * Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
 * new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
 * Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
 * Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
 * Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
 * Finished working on wbeditentity
 * Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #77
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 23:15, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
 * What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
 * “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
 * Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
 * Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
 * Stryn's request for oversight flag
 * Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
 * Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
 * Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
 * Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
 * Development
 * Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
 * Improved layout for commons sitelink table
 * More work on sorting
 * Worked on statements UI tests
 * Fixed failing QUnit tests
 * Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
 * Fixed a number of small bugs
 * Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
 * Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

October 2013 AFC Backlog elimination drive
<div style="border: 2px solid #484898; background: #FFF; background-color:#98FB98; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 90%"> WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from October 1st, 2013 – October 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script is released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. -- Mdann 52   talk to me! This newsletter was delivered on behalf of WPAFC by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:47, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-40
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
 * There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices.

VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools.
 * Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste.
 * You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop").
 * You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

Future
 * Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas.
 * Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users.
 * You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3.
 * You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:54, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #78
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 23:02, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
 * Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * UK Wikidata training
 * Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
 * Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
 * Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
 * Wikidata Query updates
 * Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
 * Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
 * Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
 * Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
 * We've crossed ID 15000000: Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
 * Development
 * Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
 * Continued work on numbers data type
 * Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
 * Fixed RDF serialization issue
 * Merged merge API module
 * Finished up database schema updating code
 * Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
 * Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
 * Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Some cleanup of EntityView
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
 * I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

The Signpost: 02 October 2013
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Are you free on Sunday? Join us for a special Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!

Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.

If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 01:56, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #79
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 * Discussions
 * Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/wikidata-sends-goodies/ Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers]
 * [//ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html A Wikidata interview with Lydia]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
 * Help the development team prioritise!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
 * Development
 * Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
 * Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
 * Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
 * Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
 * Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
 * Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
 * Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
 * Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
 * Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
 * MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
 * Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Deletion of Curtis Robertson Jr
Why did you delete the article on this person? He's a personal friend and there are plenty of references to him in other articles and articles on persons with similar or lesser notability. Lycurgus (talk) 09:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I guess you just sysop'ed it and user:Secret actually deleted. Lycurgus (talk) 11:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Secret did indeed delete it, as it was an unreferenced WP:PROD for quite some time. I don't think I was involved in the process at all, though... ~  Amory ( u  •  t  •  c ) 15:18, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Well it/he is/was in fact referenced, I dunno why you/Secret say that that's not the case. Lycurgus (talk) 10:34, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #80
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 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
 * Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
 * Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
 * Newest task forces: International relations task force
 * Development
 * Further development on WikibaseDatabase
 * IE8 is working again
 * JSON socumentation created and merged
 * Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
 * Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

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Tech News: 2013-42
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like  for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
 * Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now create and edit references inside media captions.
 * You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content.
 * When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center.

Future
 * The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you.
 * MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
 * The interface to reset your password will soon be changed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #81
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 * Discussions
 * Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
 * Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
 * Closed:Place of property documentation
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
 * Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
 * Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
 * Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
 * Development
 * Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
 * Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (46538)
 * Bene worked on a table of content for items (44876)
 * Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (55466)
 * Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (54103)
 * Linked sitelinks in diffs (53471)
 * Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
 * Worked on the user interface for simple queries
 * Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
 * Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

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Tech News: 2013-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it.

VisualEditor news
 * On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the   ,      and      spaces.

Problems
 * On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused  sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to   for a few hours.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
 * In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us.
 * You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2
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Wikidata weekly summary #82
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 20:40, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
 * Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
 * Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
 * Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
 * Newest task forces: Railways task force
 * Development
 * Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
 * Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
 * ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
 * WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
 * Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
 * Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
 * Further developments on Quantities
 * Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
 * Serialization options have been cleaned up
 * Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
 * Further work on Query and QueryEngine
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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Tech News: 2013-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed.

VisualEditor news
 * You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future.

Problems
 * There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future
 * Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers
 * Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default.
 * Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in  mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace.

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Wikidata weekly summary #83
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
 * Lua enhancements discussion
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
 * On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
 * Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
 * Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
 * Newest task forces: Athletics task force
 * You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
 * Development
 * Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
 * Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (44876)
 * More work on badges by mlazowik
 * Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
 * Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (49434)
 * Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (55667)
 * Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
 * Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
 * Fix validation of wbsetreference
 * Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #84
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Geocoordinates on people
 * Instances of human
 * Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
 * Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
 * Wikidata office hour logs are available here
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
 * The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
 * Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
 * Newest task forces:
 * Development
 * Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bug 46538)
 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
 * Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
 * Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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Wikidata weekly summary #85
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
 * Closed: Commons links
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * An interview with Denny Vrandečić
 * WikiCon 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reasonator now supports cities and locations
 * The quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
 * Development
 * Refactored Api output
 * Collect tasks for Google Code In
 * Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
 * Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
 * Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
 * Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
 * Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
 * Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
 * Improved Wikibase Lua code
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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The Signpost: 06 November 2013
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Tech News: 2013-45
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class  to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page.

Future
 * The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21.
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar).
 * The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.
 * The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference).
 * You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for,   and   and similar functions, by writing for example.
 * In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites.

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013
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Tech News: 2013-46
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
 * The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding   to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21.
 * The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #88
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Guidelines about ordering
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
 * Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
 * Development
 * Made improvements to lower database load
 * Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
 * Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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Tech News: 2013-47
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style.
 * Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password.

Problems
 * Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future
 * There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
 * The editing interface of  pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript.

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Wikidata weekly summary #86
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:42, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Showcase items - take 2
 * Verified statements
 * Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Closed: Image properties
 * Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
 * Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
 * Newest task forces: Sports results task force
 * Development
 * Ranks are nearing completion (49120)
 * Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - 54318)
 * Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
 * Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
 * Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
 * Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
 * Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
 * Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (54324)
 * Released the Datavalues library
 * Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
 * Defined permissions for Simple Queries
 * First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
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WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

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Wikidata weekly summary #87
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Tech News: 2013-49
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features
 * The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata.
 * JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster.

VisualEditor
 * You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows.
 * You can now open VisualEditor by adding  to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences.
 * Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page.

Problems
 * Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
 * The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org.

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Tech News: 2013-50
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used.
 * If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences.

VisualEditor
 * The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert".
 * You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
 * The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula".

Problems
 * There was a problem with the "" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone.
 * The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week.
 * Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
 * You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example)
 * GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17.
 * A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it.

Other
 * You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features.

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Wikidata weekly summary #91
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #89
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.

Tech News: 2013-51
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 (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
 * You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences.
 * There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites.
 * You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login.
 * If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=585965732 change the JavaScript code].
 * You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript.
 * All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org.
 * You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles.
 * You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS.
 * Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a [//translatewiki.net new main page] for users without an account.

Future software changes

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 * There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
 * When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed.
 * New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account..
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden.
 * You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool.

Merry Christmas!
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Wikidata weekly summary #90
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over handling of items
 * RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
 * Closed: Inactive administrators
 * Closed: Bot policy
 * Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
 * Open RfA: GerardM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: chromosome, produces
 * Development
 * Redesign and improvement of bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
 * Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
 * Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
 * Some progress on redirects
 * Tests, tests, tests
 * Vacations \o/
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

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Tech News: 2014-01
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
 * You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6421] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101252/]
 * With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.

VisualEditor news
 * Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5  elements. Comments are welcome. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53436]
 * You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see [//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?mobileaction=alpha this article] as an example.

Problems
 * On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58888]

Future software changes
 * CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
 * AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29583] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92053/]
 * It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54404] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85436/]
 * It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23653] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103216/]

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Tech News: 2014-02
<section begin="technews-2014-W02"/> 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 (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
 * The [//etherpad-old.wikimedia.org old note-taking site] (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on [//etherpad.wikimedia.org the new site]. [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073755.html]

Problems
 * On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
 * On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6.
 * Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options.
 * Plural form rules for some languages [//translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Portal_talk:Ru/Plural_changes_in_many_languages will be changed]. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56931] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105148/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104795/]
 * You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35485] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65162/]
 * You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104395/]
 * You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border:1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">Alt +<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">1 and similar key groups. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103072/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104934/]
 * E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their  line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the   page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32770]
 * Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56695] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95282/]

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Wikidata weekly summary #92
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 09:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
 * Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
 * Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
 * A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
 * Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
 * Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
 * Development
 * Adrian Lang joins the team
 * Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
 * Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (49079)
 * No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (58422)
 * More performance improvement work
 * Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
 * Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
 * Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (47070)
 * Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
 * Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
 * Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
 * Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
 * Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Tech News: 2014-03
<section begin="technews-2014-W03"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

You can read a [//blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-information-overload-for-wikimedians/ recent blog post] about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
 * Searching in the  namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106537/]

VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102208/]
 * You can now add and remove,   and   in the page metadata menu. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56866] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56867] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57166]

Problems
 * For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59740] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59739]
 * For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes
 * Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14. [//wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_13]
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
 * You will soon be able to export page collections into other formats than PDF. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58151]
 * It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr using UploadWizard. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43320] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/105393]
 * The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016. You are invited to comment.

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Meetups coming up in DC!
Hey!

You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:


 * Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
 * Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, February 1 from Noon – 5 PM. Join us as we improve articles on notable women in history! All are welcome, regardless of age or level of editing experience. RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.

I hope to see you there!

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Wikidata weekly summary #93
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Events
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 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
 * Reasonator gets extended functionality
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
 * Showcase items: ethanol
 * Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
 * Development
 * Enabled language links for Wikisource
 * Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
 * Database performance improvements
 * Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
 * Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

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Tech News: 2014-04
<section begin="technews-2014-W04"/> 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 (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
 * You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages or Special:WantedCategories. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434]
 * As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedtour&filter=&language=&action=translate translate it] and ask in [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla]. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105997/]
 * You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
 * You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54606]

VisualEditor news
 * In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (VisualEditor - Icon - Text style.svgVisualEditor - Icon - Down.svg). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
 * You can now edit  tags with a very basic tool. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107537/]
 * You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52844]
 * When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48560]
 * When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51930] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53611]
 * The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59660]
 * Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51734]

Problems
 * There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59979]
 * There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59993]
 * On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours.

Future software changes
 * If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56974] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95102/]
 * You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/42770]
 * You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108188/]
 * You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3483]

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Wikidata weekly summary #94
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
 * FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
 * Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
 * Showcase items: Cactaceae
 * Development
 * Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
 * 60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
 * 58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
 * 50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
 * 57213 API now reveals data type ids
 * 57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
 * 55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
 * Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
 * Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
 * Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

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Tech News: 2014-05
<section begin="technews-2014-W05"/> 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


 * Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video.
 * The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550]
 * The  page will be removed because it's too slow. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988]
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems
 * On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433]
 * For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes
 * You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #95
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
 * Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities released on Wikidata!
 * Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms, flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
 * Development
 * Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
 * Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
 * Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
 * Moved Diff repo to Github
 * Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
 * Refactoring of the ValueView extension
 * MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
 * Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
 * Fixed wbmergeitems issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

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Tech News: 2014-06
<section begin="technews-2014-W06"/> 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 (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
 * Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all [//noc.wikimedia.org/conf/small.dblist small wikis]. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60408] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109435/]
 * The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58297] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103494/]
 * You can now link to diffs using  and similar links. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63395/]
 * There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52813]
 * Searching in the  namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110191/]
 * All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45036]

VisualEditor news
 * You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border:1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">Ctrl +<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1px 3px; font-family: inherit">/ inside VisualEditor. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107153/]

Future software changes
 * Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60373] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18598] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/18229/]
 * For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (, , etc.). [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94716/]
 * It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&x=D&group=ext-gettingstarted&suppressempty=1&language= Translatewiki.net].
 * You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106320/]
 * You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60087] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107993/]
 * It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/87311/]
 * You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97998/]

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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Coming up in February!
Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

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Wikidata weekly summary #96
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the naming of people
 * Discussion over population
 * Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * See the office hours logs at meta
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * See the FOSDEM slides
 * Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
 * Development
 * More work on badges by Bene*
 * Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
 * Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
 * Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
 * Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
 * Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-07
<section begin="technews-2014-W07"/> 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 (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
 * The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/50660] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/25127] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/24248] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/82100/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99422/]
 * You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108329/]

VisualEditor news
 * You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38129] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51293]
 * The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60307] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60502] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60779]

Problems
 * On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [//wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20140203-LVS]
 * On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes
 * Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60758] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110983/]
 * You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111460/]
 * You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44420] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105986/]
 * The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster.
 * Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60911] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110315/]
 * It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52811]
 * You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23005]
 * You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36636] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102866/]
 * If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode.
 * Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas.
 * bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest.
 * The  tag will be renamed to  . The old tag will still work.

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Wikidata weekly summary #97
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 13:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
 * Reasonator
 * By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
 * The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
 * The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
 * You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
 * Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
 * Development
 * Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
 * Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
 * Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
 * Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
 * Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
 * Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
 * Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
 * Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
 * Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
 * Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-08
<section begin="technews-2014-W08"/> 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 (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
 * You can now use the list of active users again. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111258/]
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61053]
 * You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56469]
 * You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014.

Problems
 * On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem.
 * On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue.
 * On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
 * There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
 * On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news
 * The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50240]
 * You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38129]
 * Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701]
 * You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50878] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47328] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57173]

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