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Wikidata weekly summary #170
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) 18:20, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
 * Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
 * @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
 * Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
 * Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
 * Development
 * Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
 * Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
 * The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
 * The number of entities loaded via the parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
 * Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
 * Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
 * Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
 * Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
 * We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-33
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
 * The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
 * You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
 * You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
 * It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
 * JavaScript authors:
 * You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * You can no longer use  on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.

Problems
 * More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
 * Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
 * Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
 * You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some things in the watchlist will get a new look.

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Wikidata weekly summary #171
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) 11:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * cooperation between free content projects
 * A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
 * Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
 * Upcoming: SmartDataConference
 * A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
 * WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
 * Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
 * See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
 * List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
 * You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
 * SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
 * Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
 * Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
 * 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
 * Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Newest tools: Suggestor
 * Development
 * Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
 * Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
 * Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
 * References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
 * First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
 * Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
 * Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
 * The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
 * Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
 * Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-34
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
 * Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.

Problems
 * Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
 * On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
 * You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Novel article
Many thanks Andrew for the response. It's encouraging to have some positive comment on what I was doing. Unfortunately Novel still needs lots of work, as my edits were somewhat crude, and I don't have the time --or energy-- to continue at the moment. Rwood128 (talk) 19:51, 18 August 2015 (UTC)


 * It's a gargantuan task - I'm not sure I'd even know where to begin! Kudos for making a start on it. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:56, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Stub contest
Hi Andrew Gray,

I noticed that some stubs were too long before expansion. Please help me to understand the regulations. What is maximum lenght of the stubs before expansion for this contest?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 21:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #172
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) 12:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: SmartData conference
 * Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
 * Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
 * New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
 * New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
 * EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
 * Development
 * Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (T97247)
 * Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
 * Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (T109697)
 * Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
 * More work done on Unit Selector widget
 * Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
 * Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
 * Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
 * More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-35
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 * Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.

Problems
 * There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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