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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5
Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 09:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-44
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools.
 * You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor.
 * When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in.

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VisualEditor News #5—2015
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 Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets. Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor. Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements
Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the and  tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These  "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the " " tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
 * Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
 * Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then 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 weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. 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, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

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Wikidata weekly summary #182
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) 15:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price. I love Wikidata because.jpg
 * Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
 * Images from the party
 * Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
 * Presents:
 * Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
 * Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
 * Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
 * Special:Nearby by the dev team
 * Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
 * Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
 * Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
 * Past: Open Access Week
 * Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
 * Past: Tehran SFD (video)
 * Upcoming: ODI Summit
 * Upcoming: SWAT4LS
 * Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
 * Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
 * Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
 * The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
 * Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
 * Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
 * Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
 * Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
 * Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
 * We passed 15M items.
 * Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
 * All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
 * Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
 * Development
 * Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
 * Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
 * Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
 * Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
 * 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: 2015-45
 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 how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage.
 * If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results.
 * Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile.

Problems
 * On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links.
 * Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates.

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Wikidata weekly summary #183
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) 16:25, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
 * Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
 * Semantic Cities
 * Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
 * Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
 * Past: semwebpro (slides)
 * Past: ODI Summit
 * Past: MozFest (etherpad)
 * Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
 * Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
 * Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
 * Ever noticed ranks?
 * Development
 * Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
 * From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
 * Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
 * Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
 * Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
 * Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (T116503)
 * Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (T117184)
 * Worked more on making search work on mobile
 * Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
 * 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: 2015-46
 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
 * Superprotect has been removed.
 * You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch.

Problems
 * Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon.

Changes this week


 * Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback.
 * The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different.

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Wikidata weekly summary #184
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) 16:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
 * Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
 * Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
 * Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
 * Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
 * Newest WikiProjects: Education
 * Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
 * Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
 * Development
 * Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
 * Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (T101694)
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
 * Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
 * Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
 * Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
 * Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
 * 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: 2015-47
<section begin="technews-2015-W47"/> 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
 * You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information.
 * Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme.
 * The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
 * Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016.

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Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114

<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) 19:28, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
 * More mixin’, more matches
 * Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
 * Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
 * Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
 * Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
 * Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
 * MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
 * What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
 * You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
 * Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
 * Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
 * Development
 * Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
 * Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
 * Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
 * Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
 * Decreased size of html of item pages
 * Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
 * More work on making the search on mobile work
 * Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
 * Fixing size of table of content on mobile
 * Prevented merging of items which link to each other
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Tech News: 2015-48
<section begin="technews-2015-W48"/> 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
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week
 * There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Advanced.svg From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats.

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Wikidata weekly summary #186
<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="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <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) 16:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Koavf
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
 * Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
 * Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
 * Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
 * Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
 * WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
 * Workshop i Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * New daily report on Mix'n'match
 * Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
 * French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
 * New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
 * A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
 * Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
 * Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
 * example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
 * Development
 * Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
 * Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
 * Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
 * Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
 * Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
 * 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: 2015-49
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Problems
 * On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015.
 * Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata.
 * There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the  tag for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January.
 * Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified.

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Tech News: 2015-50
<section begin="technews-2015-W50"/> 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
 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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