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Wikidata weekly summary #328
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
 * 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
 * September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
 * 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
 * Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
 * Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
 * Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
 * Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
 * A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
 * A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
 * SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
 * External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
 * External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID


 * Query examples:
 * License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
 * Gallery of Gods and other deities
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%20%5B%22%3Flocation%22%2C%20%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3Flayer%20%3FnearestitemLabel%20%3Fnearestitem%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%20(MIN(%3Fdistance)%20AS%20%3FminDistance)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbookcase%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ294297%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation1%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flibrary%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ28564%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation2%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND(geof%3Adistance(%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Fdistance)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bookcasesWithDistance%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fbookcase%20%3Flocation1%20%3Flibrary%20%3Flocation2%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bookcasesWithDistance.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flibrary%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ28564%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation2%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ1741.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND(geof%3Adistance(%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Fdistance)%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(%3Fdistance%20%3D%20%3FminDistance)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bookcasesWithLibraries%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bookcasesWithLibraries.%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fswitch%20%7B%20true%20false%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%22B%C3%BCcherschrank%22%40de%2C%20%22Bibliothek%22%40de)%20AS%20%3Flayer)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Fbookcase%2C%20%3Flibrary)%20AS%20%3Fitem)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Flocation1%2C%20%3Flocation2)%20AS%20%3Flocation)%0A%20%20BIND(IF(%3Fswitch%2C%20%3Flibrary%2C%20%3Fbookcase)%20AS%20%3Fnearestitem)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna] (source)
 * Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
 * Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata


 * Development
 * Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (T201000, T202729, T198036, T203334)
 * Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (T189129)
 * Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (T195367)
 * Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (T196228)
 * Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (T195315)
 * Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (T202712)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:15, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #329
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
 * The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
 * Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
 * Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
 * Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
 * Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
 * Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
 * Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
 * External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
 * External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Nobel Prize winners in WIkidata that miss a LIBRIS id (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fqid%20%3Fsitelinks%20%3Fidentifiers%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fqid%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgametype%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ7889%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16070115%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ705867%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fgametype.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Ainteger%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fitem%29%2C%20%22Q%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Fqid%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fqid%29%0A%20%20LIMIT%2050%0A%7D%20AS%20%25items%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Fsitelinks%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Farticle%20a%20schema%3AArticle%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%3Flanguage.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22%5B%22%2C%20STR%28%3Farticle%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3Flanguage%2C%20%22%5D%22%29%20AS%20%3Fsitelink%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25itemsWithSitelinks%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fidentifier%29%20as%20%3Fidentifiers%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ28147643%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3ApropertyType%20wikibase%3AExternalId%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3FformatterUrl%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fwdt%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpropertyLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpropertyLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fwdt%20%3Fid.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3Fid%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3FformatterUrl%29%29%20AS%20%3Furl%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%22%5B%22%2C%20STR%28%3Furl%29%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%3FpropertyLabel%2C%20%22%5D%22%29%20AS%20%3Fidentifier%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25itemsWithExternalIdentifiers%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25itemsWithSitelinks.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25itemsWithExternalIdentifiers.%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fqid%29%20LIMIT%20200 Recent video game items with associated sitelinks and identifiers] (source)
 * Video game titles available on more than ten platforms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Retractions


 * Development
 * Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (T201288)
 * Merge Lexemes via the API (T198104)
 * Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (T195315)
 * Make Form ID link targets less redundant
 * Polishing html for Lexemes (T196226, T199081)
 * Merging Senses (T201605)
 * Checking glosses (T202427, T198203)
 * Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (T203334)
 * Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (T203241)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:52, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37
 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
 * When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text.

Problems
 * Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week.
 * Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed.
 * did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed.
 * is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with  would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected.
 * When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this.

Changes later this week
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
 * Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #330
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe


 * Events
 * Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
 * New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here.  Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
 * Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
 * A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
 * A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
 * More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
 * And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
 * Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
 * Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
 * Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
 * The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
 * Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
 * External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
 * External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
 * Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
 * Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
 * Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
 * Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)


 * Development
 * Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (T194347)
 * Improving the diffs for Lexemes (T185481)
 * Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
 * Implement the contemporary constraint (T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38
 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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs.
 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests.

Problems
 * You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
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Tech News: 2018-39
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