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Wikidata weekly summary #162
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) 12:08, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata.
 * Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
 * News about Wikidata FIST
 * Review of the big interwiki link migration
 * Timeline of Christopher Lee films
 * Wikidata map - 19 months on
 * A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ViziData has been improved significantly
 * Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
 * New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
 * Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
 * Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
 * Development
 * Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
 * More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
 * Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (T102148)
 * More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
 * More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
 * The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
 * Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
 * Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
 * Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
 * New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-12
 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
 * The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images.
 * You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary.
 * It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki.

Problems
 * Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
 * A puzzle piece icon (VisualEditor - Icon - Template-big.svg) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates.
 * You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.
 * You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.
 * The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts.

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Tech News: 2015-13
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week Meetings
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
 * The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page.
 * VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor.
 * When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it.
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system.

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 * Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
 * Featured content: This week's featured content
 * Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
 * Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
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 * Traffic report: Super Bowling

Thanks
Lyme Wars Thanks for coming in and helping. I am not very good at Wikipedia (yet?) editing. If you look at my sandbox, you can see where I was trying to head. I have 40-50 sections in the sandbox, and expert help can make this an excellent article. User:Bob the goodwin/sandbox The Sceptical Chymist actually put the page up, but was working from my research. I appreciate any help to get that article complete. Bob the goodwin (talk) 09:04, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Athiyur Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for all the work you've done cleaning up the Athiyur article. I have been trying to do this for months now, but the content seems to keep being re-added to article. I know you have asked questions about the article and the editor who keeps reverting and asking for edit protection. I have tried to explain to that editor in the edit summary and on his talk page why his edits were being removed or edited, but I don't think he fully understands how Wikipedia works. I get the impression he thinks that whatever he adds should stay, regardless of other editors or policy. The editor has even added welcome messages and holiday greetings to the reader, so I obviously haven't been able to get through to him. I'm thinking the difference in languages has something to do with this, as what makes no sense to me may make complete sense to him causing him to be annoyed when he gets reverted. Regardless of all this, I think it's obvious he is trying to contribute to the article in good faith, so it's not a bad idea to leave him a message if you happen to have to revert his edits. Anyways, like I said above, good work getting this cleaned up. Cmr08 (talk) 22:17, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note Cmr08. I had just left you a note on your talk page. I am nearing the completion of my copy-edit work on the article Athiyur, and I am hopeful that there will be no more problems with inappropriate material, text, or images being added to the article by any editor. Of course all editors are welcome to edit the article, but I really hope we all have the same goal of improving the article and Wikipedia. I hope everyone has a great day today! Carriearchdale (talk) 22:25, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

...and btw Cmr08, thank you for noticing my copy edit work, and you are quite welcome! Carriearchdale (talk) 22:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I seen the note. I think we were both messaging each other at the same time. Like I said above, I think this has more to do with not understanding how Wikipedia works, but considering he made no attempt to discuss and has been re-adding removed content without explaination, I don't really know what the story is. In situations like this, it's always best to assume good faith until we have a reason to assume otherwise. We will have to see how he reacts to the copy edits. Cmr08 (talk) 22:35, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Hi Carriearchdale. Thanks for reviewing Adam and Eve (public house). Yes, the article is short at the moment but I believe there are multiple secondary sources to improve the article (including finding a conclusive date of earliest record to a tavern on its site, either 1241 or 1249). May I ask your reason for tagging the article as an advertisement, and how I can solve that issue? Best, Duffit talk 14:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi Duffit, The one external link you have listed on the article is also used as an inline citation in the article. http://www.thegoodpubguide.co.uk/pub/view/Adam-&-Eve-NR3-1RZ That site appears to be done in a promotional or advertisy writing style. Perhaps you could a different source to verify the saxon well. I think that having that link in the external links is probably okay, but if it were possible to have a source for the citation from a different secondary or tertiary source,that would be most ideal! Anyways I do very much like the way you have put the list together. If you have any more questions, or if I can help in any way with the article please do not hesitate to ask... I hope you a have a very great Saturday. Cheers!!! Carriearchdale (talk) 14:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the super quick response, Carriearchdale. :) I've completely excised the inline citations to the Good Pub Guide, but kept it as an external link as the GPG is a nationally known directory of pubs in the UK. I replaced the citation to the Saxon well to the Eastern Daily Press newspaper source. Does that solve the advertising issue? Hope you have a lovely Saturday too :). Best, Duffit talk 15:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't know what a citation barnstormer is, but it made me really happy. I am not sure I am doing a good job, but I want a good encyclopedia. I also want to learn to work within this environment. There is a lot of work that can be done if I figure it all out. I happen to think the Lyme wars stories is one of the all time great stories, I hope you are enjoying working with it. Let me know if I can do anything for you. I live in Seattle, and tend to stay up late, its nice to see someone awake at the same time! I will send you an email, if you want to discuss offline. Bob the goodwin (talk) 08:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Samsung Gear Fit Hi, Thanks for the talk message. I didn't actually create the article however; I had created it as a redirect to the Samsung Gear page, which was later turned into an article by another editor. I'm more than ready to help improve the content, regardless. --RaviC (talk) 14:22, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Wideo.co article Hey Carriearchdale, not sure if this is appropriate location for a response as I'm still getting used to the communications side of this, but thanks for the message re the Wideo.co entry! I intend to spend some more time improving the article tomorrow so will certainly take your suggestions on board and will probably be in touch for further assistance! Thanks, Will. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WillDalton (talk • contribs) 00:50, 12 March 2014 (UTC) Great, please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can help in any way on the article. ciao! Carriearchdale (talk) 02:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for the review of Groundnut pyramids. I know I see a lot of new articles during our Guild of Copy Editors' Drives, so it's nice to know my own articles pass scrutiny. Thanks again!

PaintedCarpet (talk) 15:08, 23 May 2014 (UTC) 

ciao!!! Carriearchdale (talk) 20:11, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * thanks so much! how sweet of you. I really did like the article, it stood out among the rest of the new article crop!

Thank you for your comment on California Farmer
I appreciate your taking the time to comment on a starter page!Valli Nagy 18:09, 1 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ValliNagy (talk • contribs)

You are welcome
You are welcome. Its my honor and duty to write articles on various academics!--Mishae (talk) 13:37, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Tag still there - possible edit conflict
Thanks for reviewing my latest contribution, Liane Davey. However, it seems the new article tag is still there... maybe there was an edit conflict that prevented the removal? Thanks again. Woz2 (talk) 23:35, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I resaved it as reviewed, I think that got it. It was a really well done article. I enjoyed reading over the article.

ciao!!! Carriearchdale (talk) 00:37, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, yes. Cheers! Woz2 (talk) 00:38, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Soraya Post
Please take a look at the refs for Soraya Post. Thank you!--BabbaQ (talk) 21:07, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Take a look at Paula Bieler. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:18, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Someone has added new refs on Sorayas article. Please take a look when you got the time for it.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:07, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at the refs for Cristina Scuccia.--BabbaQ (talk) 08:45, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing Llandissilio
Thanks for reviewing Llandissilio. It's only an infant, but hopes to grow over the next few days. All the best, Tony Holkham (talk) 11:39, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your review of Gustav Adolf Wohlgemuth
Thanks! Robert P. O&#39;Shea (talk) 04:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC). Perhaps you would also like to review Instrument myopia, which I just created. It is a little more rough than Adolf Wohlgemuth's page; I will be seeking expert advice about the history of instrument myopia and will add it once I have it.Robert P. O&#39;Shea (talk) 05:35, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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 * align="center" style="font-size: 126%;" | “I jealously guard my research time, and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers and stacks. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my day.” ― Carriearchdale

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Wikidata weekly summary #154
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 09:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Aldnonymous
 * RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Redirects on Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
 * Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
 * Map of French national parks
 * Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
 * Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
 * Development
 * Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
 * Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
 * Expanded our set of automated browser tests
 * Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
 * Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
 * Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
 * Continued work on our RDF generator
 * Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
 * Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
 * Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
 * Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
 * Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
 * Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
 * More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
 * Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
 * Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
 * Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
 * Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-17
 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
 * There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis.
 * VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis.
 * You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends.
 * If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Labs on Monday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
 * Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference.
 * You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits.

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #155
<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 (WMDE) 14:00, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
 * ongoing: Coding DaVinci
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
 * Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
 * Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
 * Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
 * Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
 * Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
 * Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
 * It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
 * Caching issues were fixed
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
 * There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
 * Development
 * On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
 * Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
 * More work on RDF output and the query service
 * Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
 * Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (92975)
 * Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-18
<section begin="technews-2015-W18"/> 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
 * All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis.
 * You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki.
 * There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed.
 * You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language.

Problems
 * Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
 * It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor.
 * You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor.
 * You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor.
 * You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015
<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read this Signpost in full &middot; Single-page &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 04:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
 * News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
 * In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
 * Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
 * Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
 * Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
 * Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

Wikidata weekly summary #156
<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 (WMDE) 14:44, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
 * The most important Wikipedia pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
 * The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
 * New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
 * All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
 * List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
 * All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
 * Development
 * We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
 * The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
 * Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
 * We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
 * We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
 * 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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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015
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 * Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
 * Womens History Month
 * Growing free knowledge through open data
 * Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
 * Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
 * Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation

deOrphaning script
Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page (BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as 's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.

What I'm wondering at this point is, since there appears to be only two people using the script, should I continue to develop this script with a goal of using it for scoring BLDs or just debug the existing script and leave it at that. Thanks for any replies or comments.

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Tech News: 2015-19
<section begin="technews-2015-W19"/> 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
 * You can now chat with other users in Phabricator.
 * There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
 * It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC).
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11
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 * New donations - MIT Press Journals, Sage Stats, Hein Online and more
 * New TWL coordinators, conference news, and new reference projects
 * Spotlight: Two metadata librarians talk about how library professionals can work with Wikipedia

The Signpost: 06 May 2015
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 * Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
 * News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
 * In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
 * Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
 * Traffic report: The grim ship reality
 * Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?

Wikidata weekly summary #157
<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 (WMDE) 17:49, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mbch331
 * New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
 * Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
 * MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
 * Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
 * Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
 * The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
 * Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
 * The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
 * The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
 * Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
 * Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
 * Development
 * Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
 * Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
 * Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
 * Continued working on RDF export
 * More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
 * Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.