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Wikidata weekly summary #164
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) 18:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Reductionism
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
 * Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
 * Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
 * Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
 * Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
 * Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
 * Development
 * Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
 * Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
 * Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (T96298)
 * Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (T94588)
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
 * Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (T103796)
 * Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
 * Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (T103489)
 * Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (T103603)
 * Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-27
 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
 * Long lines in code blocks now look better.
 * You can now see graphs in VisualEditor.
 * When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page.
 * The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile.
 * You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites.

Problems
 * JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
 * You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color.
 * When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them.
 * If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password.
 * Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for  doesn't work any more.

Meetings
 * 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 June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future
 * When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org.

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Read this Signpost in full &middot; Single-page &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:01, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
 * In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
 * WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
 * Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
 * Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
 * Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
 * Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

Wikidata weekly summary #165
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 21:16, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
 * Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
 * Development
 * Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
 * After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
 * Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
 * Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
 * Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
 * JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-28
 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
 * On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata.

Problems
 * The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
 * The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active.
 * You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool.

Meetings
 * 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 July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015. About &middot; Subscribe/unsubscribe, 01:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
 * Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
 * 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
 * Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
 * How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
 * Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder

The Signpost: 08 July 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Read this Signpost in full &middot; Single-page &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 04:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
 * News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
 * In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
 * Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
 * Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
 * Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #166
<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 11:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
 * Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
 * Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
 * Development
 * The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
 * 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
 * Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
 * Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
 * More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
 * Further work on the new RDF export.
 * PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-29
<section begin="technews-2015-W29"/> 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 see a list of pages with errors in code coloring.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes.
 * There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 12, May-June 2015 by, , ,

<div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Read the full newsletter The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
 * Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
 * Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
 * American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

The Signpost: 15 July 2015
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 * Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
 * Traffic report: Belles of the ball
 * WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
 * Technology report: Tech news in brief
 * Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

Wikidata weekly summary #167
<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 15:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nikki
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Right now: Wikimania
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus made some new tools:
 * list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
 * list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
 * an InfoBitt replacement
 * a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
 * plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
 * P2000 was created.
 * Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
 * WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
 * Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
 * Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
 * New task forces: Linguistics
 * Development
 * Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
 * After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
 * Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
 * Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
 * Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
 * Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
 * Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-30
<section begin="technews-2015-W30"/> 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
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
 * You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person.

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 July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math.

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The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 July 2015
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 * In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
 * Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
 * WikiProject report: Some more politics
 * Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters\
 * Gallery: "One small step..."
 * Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikidata weekly summary #168
<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 23:50, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Nikki
 * Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
 * Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
 * Past: Wikimania
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
 * Development
 * Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
 * Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
 * Tweaking the sitelink input
 * Changing the display of item selector results
 * 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: 2015-31
<section begin="technews-2015-W31"/> 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 use redirects to link to JavaScript pages.
 * You cannot use the compact user bar any more.
 * You can change your options to see bigger images.
 * You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor.
 * You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily.

Problems
 * There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
 * There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
 * JavaScript authors: You cannot use  to get edit counts anymore.

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 July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015
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 * News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
 * Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
 * Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
 * In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
 * Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
 * Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

Wikidata weekly summary #169
<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 19:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
 * Enable Flow on Wikidata?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
 * PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
 * Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
 * 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
 * Interested in art movements? Check out this
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
 * Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
 * Development
 * Minor fixes to property edit mode
 * Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
 * Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
 * Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
 * Fixed the counting of references
 * Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
 * Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
 * 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: 2015-32
<section begin="technews-2015-W32"/> 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 Problems Changes this week
 * The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
 * You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts.
 * Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look.
 * The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo.
 * MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages.
 * Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore.
 * There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error.
 * We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now.
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (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 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015
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 * WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
 * In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
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 * Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
 * Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

Wikidata weekly summary #170
<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) 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
<section begin="technews-2015-W33"/> 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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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015
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 * Konkani Wikipedia goes live
 * “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
 * Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
 * Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
 * ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
 * Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT

The Signpost: 12 August 2015
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 * News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
 * In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
 * Forum: Community voices on paid editing
 * Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
 * Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
 * Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
 * Technology report: Tech news in brief
 * Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

Wikidata weekly summary #171
<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) 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
<section begin="technews-2015-W34"/> 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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