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Thanks for your fixes. The bot is working fine. But it detects edits like this as "Possible gibberish" which is completely fine. By the way, I followed your page on meta and ended in Simple-English Wikipedia. Your help is very much appreciated. -- Meisam (talk) 08:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #39
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
 * Extended tests for statements user interface
 * Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
 * Layout improvements in the user interface
 * Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
 * Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
 * More work on AbuseFilter
 * Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
 * Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
 * Discussions/Press
 * Created prototypes for parsing coordinates and time in Wikidata that need feedback
 * Bureaucrat support requirements
 * Defining administrators
 * Events
 * 29C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
 * You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
 * Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
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Wikidata weekly summary #40
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 * Development
 * Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
 * Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (43828)
 * Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (42954)
 * Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (43301)
 * Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (43814)
 * Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
 * Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (42064)
 * Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
 * Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
 * Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (43124)
 * Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
 * Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
 * Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
 * Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
 * Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
 * Finished EntityDiff cleanup
 * Discussions/Press
 * Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
 * Updates to time and space model
 * Is there a need for bureaucrats?
 * Planned improvement to the search field
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
 * Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
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Wikidata weekly summary #41
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 * Development
 * We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
 * We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
 * Refactored sites code to improve design
 * Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
 * Added lots of new Selenium tests
 * Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
 * Implemented new change dispatcher script
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
 * Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
 * Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
 * Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
 * Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
 * Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
 * Discussions/Press
 * Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes
 * Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
 * RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
 * Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
 * There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
 * Deployed new code on wikidata.org
 * Community Portal got a rework
 * Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
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Wikidata weekly summary #42
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 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Improved design of sites code in core
 * Fixed SQLite compatibility
 * Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
 * Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
 * Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
 * Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
 * Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
 * More work on wikibase.getEntities function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
 * AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
 * The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
 * Initial implementation of parser function for the client
 * Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
 * Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
 * Discussions/Press
 * VIAF
 * Events
 * InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 * Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reconfirmation of temporary admins
 * Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
 * Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
 * Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
 * Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
 * Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
 * Open Tasks for You
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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2012
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 * Israeli and Czech chapters convince governments to make images freely available
 * More than half a million free photos of Dutch monuments for Wikimedia Commons
 * Workshop of the German Volunteer response team

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Wikidata weekly summary #43
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 * Development
 * Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia
 * Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
 * Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
 * Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
 * Working on property parser function for the client
 * Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
 * Resumed work on linked data interface
 * References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
 * Several minor user interface fixes
 * Styling of the user interface for statements
 * Selenium tests for references
 * Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
 * Worked on puppet
 * Discussions/Press
 * Abuse filter guidelines
 * Policy on properties
 * First external tool for output in RDF: and
 * Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
 * Events
 * We’ve set the date for the next office hours
 * upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
 * Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
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Wikidata weekly summary #44
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 * Development
 * Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
 * Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
 * Started work on query definitions
 * Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
 * Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
 * Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
 * More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
 * Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
 * New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
 * JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
 * Repaired and updated the demo system
 * Resumed work on Linked Data interface
 * Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
 * There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
 * Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
 * Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
 * Discussions/Press
 * Signpost
 * Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
 * Events
 * FOSDEM
 * upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
 * List of existing properties and their usage
 * List of new proposed properties
 * Open Tasks for You
 * d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
 * d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
 * Hack on one of these

The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven
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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)


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1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

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 * Mobile watchlist available
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 * Commons Picture of the Year 2012 contest results announced
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Article Feedback deployment
Hey Hydriz; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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 * The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface.
 * The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped.
 * The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25.
 * The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1).
 * Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.


 * Future software changes:


 * MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software.
 * The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type.
 * The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release.
 * Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434).
 * Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747).
 * The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things.
 * During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software.
 * There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code.

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Tech news: 2013-23
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5.
 * The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page.
 * There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages.
 * The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits.
 * The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin?useNew=0 adding ?useNew=0] to the web address.
 * Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia).
 * Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912).
 * All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this.
 * The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them.


 * Future software changes:


 * The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726)
 * The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension.
 * MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now.

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Tech news: 2013-24
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.


 * Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)


 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13.
 * An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/preparing-for-visualeditor-on-all-wikipedias/ test it and report problems].
 * Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
 * Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel on Freenode.
 * The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates.
 * A test instance of Wikidata is now available at [//test.wikidata.org test.wikidata.org].
 * Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges.
 * Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713).


 * Future software changes:


 * A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon.
 * A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2013
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 * Wikimedia Foundation highlights
 * Community invited to discuss trademark practices
 * Wikipedia Zero launches in Pakistan
 * Search for new Executive Director begins
 * Data and Trends
 * Financials
 * Other movement highlights
 * More than 11,000 nature photos in Ukrainian "Wiki loves Earth" contest
 * Hackathons in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv
 * Railway photo expedition in Poland
 * Online course about editing Wikipedia articles