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VisualEditor News #3—2015


Did you know? When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information: The link tool has been re-designed: There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements
Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (,, or ). The cite button is now labeled with the word "" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings.  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
 * If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
 * If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
 * The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

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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: 2015-25
 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
 * Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool.
 * Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

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 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it.
 * If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use anymore.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4
Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?


 * A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
 * A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
 * New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
 * SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
 * Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

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Wikidata weekly summary #163
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:34, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
 * Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
 * More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
 * Nice new manual for MixnMatch
 * The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
 * National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
 * Development
 * Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
 * Worked more on unit support
 * Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (T98471)
 * Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
 * The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
 * The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see T100813
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
 * Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
 * Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
 * Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
 * Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (T93534)
 * 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: 2015-26
 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
 * Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users.
 * You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser.

Problems
 * On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours.
 * On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons.
 * Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

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

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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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 * Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award
 * Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
 * Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
 * Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program
 * Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students
 * Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015
 * Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
 * Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
 * Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
 * Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more

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Wikidata weekly summary #165
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 * 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!
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Tech News: 2015-28
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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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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
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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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Thanks for the edit. I wrote "Shaw" when I should have written "Lawrence". Weird, as it was done unconsciously. He changed his name to Shaw in 1923. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:14, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, makes more sense now. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:10, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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Structured Stories
Check it out

http://www.structuredstories.com/ https://reporterslab.org/structured-stories-week-2-nouns-verbs-and-learning-to-write-again/

Think its interesting stuff for wikidata — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johangyllen (talk • contribs) 18:45, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks! -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 07:39, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Open Access (publishing) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Open Access (publishing). Since you had some involvement with the Open Access (publishing) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 07:14, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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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Please comment on Talk:Infinite monkey theorem
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Wikidata weekly summary #168
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 * 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.