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Wikidata weekly summary #90
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 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!
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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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Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 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.
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Tech News: 2014-02
 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 Alt +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
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 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!

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Geonotice request
Hi Andrew, any chance you could attend to my request at Geonotice (along with a couple others that have been sitting there for a little while)? It's for an event on Wednesday. -Pete (talk) 07:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Done. Andrew Gray (talk) 08:48, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated! I am not sure how much 1 degree covers, but I am in Oakland (a similar distance as Tiburon, but to the east rather than north) and the notice is not showing up here. Any possibility of expanding it a little? (In general, I'd be interested to learn how to make better/more specific requests about geography -- I don't really know how this works.) -Pete (talk) 16:51, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oakland is centred on [37.8, -122.3], so you should be well inside the [36.75 -121.5], [38.75, -123.5] area. What does geoiplookup.wikimedia.org report for you?
 * In general terms, the watchlist notices are served up to anyone whose IP resolves (by our lookup table) as being within a specific geographic region, defined as the rectangle between two corner points. We aren't able to target it any more specifically than that (no circles, state-level filtering, etc) but we can do per-country messaging. Andrew Gray (talk) 18:41, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * That page returns the following line:

Geo = {"city":"Oakland","country":"US","lat":"37.804401","lon":"-122.270798","IP":"98.248.124.201","netmask":"24"}
 * I'm at a different location in Oakland now than when I messaged you earlier; but I'm still not seeing the notice. -Pete (talk) 21:04, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No idea in that case, sorry! It looks like it should be working - don't know where it's going wrong. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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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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