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Wikidata weekly summary #299
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
 * The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
 * WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
 * mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
 * The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
 * External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
 * Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
 * JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
 * Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
 * Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
 * Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
 * List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)


 * Development
 * Make grammatical forms persistent (T173742)
 * Improve the edit summary of Forms (T184702)
 * Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (T186317)
 * Improve formatting of the Lexemes(T185332)
 * Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (T186645)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 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!

Tech News: 2018-07
 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
 * TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator.
 * Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week
 * You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages.
 * The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
 * The abuse filter extension has a new feature  that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

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 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved.

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Wikidata weekly summary #300
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
 * Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

''Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!''
 * A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
 * The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
 * Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
 * WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
 * Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
 * Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
 * Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
 * DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
 * checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
 * Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
 * The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
 * Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
 * Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal
 * Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
 * A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
 * Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
 * From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
 * Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
 * Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
 * Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
 * The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
 * Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
 * External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women with an Erdős number
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass1%20%3Fclass1Label%20%3FphysClass%20%3FphysClassLabel%20%3FabsClass%20%3FabsClassLabel%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ223557%20%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25physicalClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%20%0A%23%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22reverse%22.%0A%20%20%7D%20LIMIT%2040000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25abstractClasses%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25physicalClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25abstractClasses%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25commonClasses%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fclass%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%0A%20%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%20SELECT%20%28%3Fclass%20AS%20%3FparentClass%29%20WHERE%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25commonClasses.%20%7D%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FparentClass.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25reducedClasses%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25reducedClasses%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fclass1%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FabsClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FabsClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go%29%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fclass1%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FphysClass%20.%0A%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ223557%20.%0A%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FphysClass%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7184903%20.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%23%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%281%20AS%20%3Fno_go2%29%20.%0A%23%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%23%20%20FILTER%20%28%21bound%28%3Fno_go2%29%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FabsClassLabel%0A Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object] (thread)
 * Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
 * Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
 * Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
 * Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
 * Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
 * Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
 * WikiProject ShEx
 * Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment


 * Development
 * Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
 * Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
 * Continued work on caching constraint check results.
 * Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (T187265 T186714)
 * Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (T173743, T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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) 15:35, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08
 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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table.

Problems
 * Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed.
 * Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like   are not visible in the references list whilst editing.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

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 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible.
 * Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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GOCE February 2018 news
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Wikidata weekly summary #301
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
 * Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Stewards election is running until February 28th
 * Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
 * Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
 * It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
 * Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
 * You can give feedback about this newsletter
 * Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
 * External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID


 * Query examples:
 * Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
 * Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
 * Where were people who went to space born? (source)
 * National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
 * Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
 * Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges


 * Development
 * Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (T1854997)
 * Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (T186995)
 * Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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) 15:48, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09
 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
 * Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
 * Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.

Changes later this week
 * Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

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 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?



Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

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 Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time.  It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up.  Other wikis can have this service, too.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia.  If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either   or the plain (no parameters)   template.  If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
 * 🇮🇳 Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🇮🇳 Numerounovedant, Carbrera, 🇳🇱 Farang Rak Tham and 🇷🇴 Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
 * Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
 * The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
 * The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
 * It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "" Beta feature).

Problems
 * The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed.
 * On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed.
 * Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of  or   it says   and  . It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public.
 * A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts.

Problems
 * Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message.
 * It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed.

Problems
 * On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #302
<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;">
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
 * WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
 * Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Global preferences are available for testing
 * Statement 400.000.000 was created
 * You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
 * External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID


 * Query examples:
 * 3D models on Commons (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
 * Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
 * Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
 * Newest database reports: nomes de países em português


 * Development
 * Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (T179012)
 * Investigate on the size of logging table (T188635)
 * Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (T186467)
 * Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (T186726)
 * Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!

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Tech News: 2018-10
<section begin="technews-2018-W10"/> 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 make longer edit summaries.

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
 * On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

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 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * 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 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
 * You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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