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Books and Bytes - Issue 21
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Issue 21, January-March 2017 by, , , ,

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 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikipedia Library User Group
 * Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
 * Spotlight: Library Card Platform

PSLV-C37
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article PSLV-C37 has been completed.

You will notice that I archived one of the article’s citations (#1). I suggest you archive the rest of the article’s URLs as time allows. This ensures that the article's references are available "forever" and that it doesn’t develop "dead links" over time. The site I use is https://archive.org/web/. Simply copy the URL in the citation and paste it in the "Save Page Now" box on the archive.org site and click "Save". This creates a copy of the original page and provides you with a new URL to add to the original citation. If you look at the URL I've archived you'll see the syntax. You add the new URL to the end of the original citation like this: |archiveurl=http etc|archivedate=08 April 2017}}. Not all websites allow archiving so there's not much you can do about that unless there is an alternate citation you could use.

Good luck with the GA nomination.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:02, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #255
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zolo
 * New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
 * Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
 * Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
 * Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
 * There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
 * New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
 * Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
 * New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
 * You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
 * Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
 * Help us translating this short message in your language


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID


 * Query examples:
 * Notable integers
 * Longest streets of Moscow
 * Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
 * Countries not involved in any world war (source)
 * People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
 * Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Newest database reports: list of duos


 * Development
 * Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (T162244)
 * Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
 * Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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: 2017-15
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2017
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Please comment on Talk:List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017
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Tech News: 2017-16
 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 add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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Please comment on Talk:Genocide
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Vikram Batra copyedit
It's been declined and archived, since the GOCE only copyedits articles in mainspace. Please note that the per-editor request limit has been reduced from three to two.  Mini  apolis  21:52, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #257
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
 * Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
 * Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries


 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
 * Query examples:
 * Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
 * Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
 * Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
 * Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
 * New template: d:Template:Film festivals


 * Development
 * Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (T138295)
 * Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (T163144)
 * Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (T110604)
 * Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (T159710)
 * Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (T160530)
 * Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (T162342)
 * Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (T160048)
 * Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (T162870)
 * Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (T157466)

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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) 13:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17
 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
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Please comment on Talk:Flag
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Please comment on Talk:2017 Stockholm attack
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Nat Hentoff
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Nat Hentoff has been completed.

I notice in a number of cases some one has used two and three citations for individual statements. One sentence I checked:


 * "In January 2009, the Village Voice, which had regularly published Hentoff's commentary and criticism for fifty years, announced that he had been laid off."[2][20]

as an example uses two citations to substantiate the fact he was laid off. Since only a single reputable source is required, a GA reviewer would likely ask that you remove the excess citations as unnecessary.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Good luck with the GA nomination

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. 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 equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, 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, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18
<section begin="technews-2017-W18"/> 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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add  block for your scripts also, or add   dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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

Future changes
 * All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.
 * The,   and   buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding   to the URL.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W18"/> 19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Exercise TROPEX
Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Exercise TROPEX has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #258
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
 * Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
 * Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
 * Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
 * New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
 * new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
 * Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
 * Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
 * Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
 * Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username


 * Query examples:
 * 15415 people who died in 2016
 * Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
 * Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
 * Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
 * A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format


 * Development
 * Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
 * Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
 * The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
 * Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (T107595)
 * Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
 * Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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 - proposals needing attention
 * 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!

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)