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Wikidata weekly summary #134
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
 * Building a periodic table using Wikidata
 * Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
 * The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
 * Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
 * Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
 * WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
 * VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
 * Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
 * Development
 * When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
 * Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
 * The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
 * Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
 * While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
 * More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
 * Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
 * Bug fixes
 * Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-48
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Recent changes
 * The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator.

Problems
 * There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the  or   option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf9 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
 * You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options.
 * VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved.
 * You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window.
 * VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #135
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
 * Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
 * Picture this!
 * Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
 * Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
 * IRC office hour on Wednesday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
 * Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
 * VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
 * Development
 * Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
 * Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
 * Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
 * Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
 * Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
 * Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
 * Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix T74348
 * Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
 * JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
 * Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
 * Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
 * Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
 * Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
 * Input on Wikibase/Indexing
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

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 * We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
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Wikidata weekly summary #136
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * IRC office hour (log)
 * Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * Statements on properties are now live
 * Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
 * The Game has a new mode: alma mater
 * Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
 * Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
 * English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
 * Development
 * Started work on units
 * More work on evaluating options for querying
 * Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
 * Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
 * Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
 * Work on improved label lookup performance
 * Wrapping up work on usage tracking
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-50
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Recent software changes
 * All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
 * You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf11 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar).
 * You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key.
 * It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better.
 * The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs.
 * (Lua) You can no longer use  to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix.

Future changes
 * Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate.

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Wikidata weekly summary #137
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
 * Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
 * past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
 * Development
 * More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
 * Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
 * Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
 * Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
 * Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
 * Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
 * Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Tech News: 2014-51
<section begin="technews-2014-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
 * You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf12 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
 * You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,  or.
 * VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
 * The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.

Future changes
 * The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
 * You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).

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