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Wikidata weekly summary #194
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) 17:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Replicator: Wikidata import tool
 * The Facebook of German Playwrights
 * Language usage on Wikidata
 * Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
 * Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
 * some visualizations:
 * Family tree of King Halo, race horse
 * Doctoral students of Gauss
 * Tributaries of the Danube
 * Children of Kronos
 * Influenced by Leibnitz
 * Graphs
 * Zika virus papers
 * KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
 * Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
 * Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
 * WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
 * Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Chevaux%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcheval%20%3FchevalLabel%20%3Fmere%20%3Fpere%20(year(%3Fnaissance)%20as%20%3FNaissance)%20(year(%3Fdeces)%20as%20%3FD%C3%A9c%C3%A8s)%20%3Fsexe%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ726%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20Instance%20et%20sous-classes%20de%20Q726-Cheval%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP25%20%3Fmere%20%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P25%20%20%3A%20M%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP22%20%3Fpere%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P22%20%20%3A%20P%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fnaissance%20.%7D%20%23%20P569%20%3A%20Date%20de%20naissance%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdeces%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P571%20%3A%20Date%20de%20d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fsexe%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P21%20%20%3A%20Sexe%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Cen%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fcheval horses], [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P2380%20%3FRSF%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D French sculptors by year of birth]
 * Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
 * Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
 * New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
 * Development
 * und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
 * Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
 * Final touches on making search work on mobile
 * Finishing identifier datatype and section
 * 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.

Learning Quarterly: January 2016
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Tech News: 2016-05
<section begin="technews-2016-W05"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Problems Changes this week
 * Sites with a  address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour.
 * Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January.
 * Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager.
 * The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages.
 * Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read.
 * The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor.
 * The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time.
 * The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use   at each individual project domain instead.

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Invitation to the Google Doodle task force
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Email?
Hi Masssly, You wrote on my talk page that I've got an email. But I checked my inbox and there was none. If you have really sent me a mail, please send it again at the following address: rado.kaontywiki(at)gmail.com. Thank you in advance. Jagwar - ( ( talk ) )  12:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)


 * There must have been a problem, I have resent. <font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#FF0000 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01EE796D -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#00000F"><font color="#01EE796D">—M@sssly <font color="#FFEG0000">✉ 20:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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2016 GA Cup
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Nanumba people (February 8)
<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: #F8EEBC; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Nanumba people and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Nanumba_people Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Onel5969&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Nanumba_people reviewer's talk page].
 * You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

 Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 13:23, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

This started off as a form of help I was offering another editor who had troubles with referencing but now it looks like I have to fix it myself. I have now added sufficient references. Have a second look again. Thanks. <font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#FF0000 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01EE796D -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#00000F"><font color="#01EE796D">—M@sssly <font color="#FFEG0000">✉ 21:05, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06
<section begin="technews-2016-W06"/> 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
 * Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages.
 * When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary.
 * Octicons-tools.svg RESTBase is now using  instead of.

Changes this week
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (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 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February.
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type.

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Wikidata weekly summary #195
<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) 21:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: HakanIST
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
 * Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
 * Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
 * How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
 * What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
 * We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
 * Andrew updated his maps
 * We crossed edit 300,000,000!
 * Graph example: matrices
 * Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
 * Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
 * Development
 * Search now works on mobile
 * Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
 * Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
 * Investigated further options for performance improvement (T125502)
 * Indexing labels in elastic properly (T125500)
 * More work on cleaning up language codes (T125063, T124757)
 * 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.

Towards a New Wikimania results
Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 February 2016
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This Month in GLAM: January 2016
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== Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #3 (февр.'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #3 (Feb.'16) ==

Your submission at Articles for creation: Nanumba people has been accepted
<div style="border:solid 1px #57DB1E; background:#E6FFE6; padding:1em; padding-top:0.5em; padding-bottom:0.5em; width:20em; color:black; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Nanumba people, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!  Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 13:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Nanumba_people help desk] .
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Pinging you in case it has not come to your notice that the Nanumba people article has now been created. And also about the Wikipedia article Tony Naden. <font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#FF0000 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01EE796D -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#00000F"><font color="#01EE796D">—M@sssly <font color="#FFEG0000">✉ 13:40, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 February 2016
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Tech News: 2016-07
<section begin="technews-2016-W07"/> 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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript.
 * You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas.

Problems
 * A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it.

Changes this week
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
 * Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta.

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Wikidata weekly summary #196
<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) 09:57, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
 * Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
 * We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
 * WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
 * Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
 * WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
 * Autolist now supports SPARQL
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
 * A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
 * Hay created a new property browser
 * Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
 * Development
 * Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (T125822)
 * UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (T125391, T125503)
 * Work on properly linking identifiers
 * Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (T125063)
 * Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (T126349)
 * Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (T121395)
 * Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (T111173)
 * Made search work properly on mobile (T85368)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (T125636)
 * 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #196
<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) 09:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
 * Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
 * We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
 * WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
 * Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
 * WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
 * Autolist now supports SPARQL
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
 * A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
 * Hay created a new property browser
 * Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
 * Development
 * Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (T125822)
 * UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (T125391, T125503)
 * Work on properly linking identifiers
 * Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (T125063)
 * Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (T126349)
 * Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (T121395)
 * Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (T111173)
 * Made search work properly on mobile (T85368)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (T125636)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * 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.

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Tech News: 2016-08
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Recent changes
 * Phabricator has been upgraded.

Problems
 * There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time.

Changes this week
 * After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity.

Meetings
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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2016
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 * Content Translation tool has now been used for 50,000 articles
 * Who edits Wikipedia?
 * “Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell
 * In brief

Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186

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 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
 * Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
 * Timeline of Zika papers
 * A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
 * The museum map now works for all countries
 * Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
 * Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
 * Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
 * Query example: natural numbers
 * Development
 * The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (T2708)
 * The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
 * Input needed on caching for the query service
 * Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
 * We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
 * Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (T127095)
 * More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
 * Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
 * wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
 * Monthly Tasks
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

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VisualEditor News #1—2016
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Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features. If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes
The single edit tab project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the tab of Special:Preferences: The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
 * , and
 * . (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
 * , and
 * . (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

Let's work together
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thanks!
 * Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
 * Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Language engineer David Chan needs help from people who often type in these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing if you can help. Report your results on wiki (Korean – Japanese – all languages).
 * Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

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The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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Tech News: 2016-09
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 * Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have   templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
 * The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
 * The visual editor now follows the TemplateData  setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways.
 * The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected.

Changes this week
 * On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences.
 * Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor.
 * Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications.

Meetings
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Wikidata weekly summary #198
<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) 22:00, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
 * Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
 * In search of French towns on Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
 * Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
 * A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
 * Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
 * Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
 * The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
 * Query example: battles
 * Development
 * Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
 * Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
 * More groundwork for Commons support
 * Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (T128078)
 * Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (T128075)
 * More performance work
 * In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (T125712)
 * More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.