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Wikidata weekly summary #191
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) 21:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * The Reference Wars
 * Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
 * Wikidata references from Microdata
 * Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
 * From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
 * Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
 * Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
 * Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
 * The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
 * IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
 * Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
 * Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
 * Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
 * New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
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 * Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
 * Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
 * More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
 * Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (T87263)
 * We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (T72247)
 * Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (T95419)
 * More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
 * Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
 * References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
 * SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
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Tech News: 2016-02
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Recent changes Problems
 * Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore.
 * You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this.
 * Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated.

Changes this week
 * The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow.
 * New file uploads will now be patrollable.
 * Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser.

Meetings
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 * The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab.
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
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WikiProject Cameroon
Hi, Masssly, I noticed that you signed up as a participant on WikiProject Cameroon and had recently edited. I was doing some work on creating new categories and am confused by the assortment of different names of categories for Cameroon as can be seen at Category:Decades in Cameroon. A lot of these category names were devised by the use of a template and there might be some misidentification. It would be great if you could help me sort out the Kamerun‎, British Cameroons, French Cameroons and Cameroon categories so they accurately reflect the history of this country. Thanks for any help you can offer. Liz Read! Talk! 17:23, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey Liz, I would be happy to help sort this out. I have had a look and I think you made a genuine observation - the name of the category is problematic in many ways; I wouldn't advocate for the existence of a category named Category:Decades in Cameroon simply because the German, French and English protectorates that once existed are not necessarily subsets of the present day Republic of Cameroon. Parts of those protectorates are now part of modern countries like Central African Republic, Gabon, Nigeria, etc. In other words, Republic of Cameroon does not completely encompass these past staes. Well, unless we can find another name for it, Decades in Cameroon is misleading and we should put them all in their separate categories; Decades in German Kamerun, Decades in French Cameroun, Decades in British Cameroons, and Decades in the Republic of Cameroon. What do u think?—M@sssly ✉ 00:33, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * That sounds good to me. What is confusing is that there are simultaneously categories for British Cameroons and French Cameroons for the same years. Looking over Cameroon article, I couldn't easily determine which decades were covered by which names. I should explain that oftentimes, red-link categories are created by editors who aren't particularly knowledgeable about the topic, they are just creating categories based on other categories in the same group. So, it is likely that not a lot of thought went into making sure the category structure is consistent.
 * For some of these categories, we can simply change the template to the correct one and change the categories on the child/subcategories. For others, we might have to post the changes at WP:CFD for speedy renames. This situation isn't an emergency, but if you had a little time to help me straighten this out, I think it would benefit the readers. Also, I think these territorial confusions exist for other geographic entities like Macau and other African countries. Liz  Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 01:11, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Right, I may be able to work on this next weekend, that's in case you don't happen to get to it first. <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">✉ 14:47, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

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OTRS ticket from hospital
I saw that you had WP:OTRS Ticket:2015081710021635 about Draft:MedStar_-_Georgetown_Surgical_Outcomes_Research_Center_(MG-SORC). It seems like you handled this by putting the page in a category. I am not sure what the right response is, but this is not what I would have done, and I wanted to talk with you about best practices.

I am actually not sure how the WP:AFC queue works, but somehow, I think the goal was to tag this draft so that it gets community review. I submitted the article for review, then I reviewed the article myself. I did this using the WP:Twinkle tools. I do not know if this is the best way, but it works for me, and it creates a record of submission and review on the page. I could be incorrect about the best way to do this.

The problem with your way was that whatever else happen, it did not seem to put the article in line to be reviewed. Your way seems reasonable because it was dated.

Thoughts? Thanks for doing OTRS.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  15:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Bluerasberry, thank you for reaching out. You're absolutely right; I should have handled it differently by making it visible to reviewers instead of simply including it a category, like you mentioned. I think placing  on the draft is enough to produce the desired result (see Articles for creation), but I'm curios to find out more how to do that with twinkle. On the drop down list in twinkle, what particular command do you use? I'm happy to learn more.<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">✉  14:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Help decide the future of Wikimania


The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

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Some baklava for you!

 * Hi Ga.gatto.sa, I have no knowledge about Potiskum Emirate and Ngizim people. I however noticed a lot of cut and paste material in the article in Ngizim people which I have since removed, (I hope that helps!). If you let me know what specifically the problem is, I could offer better advice. Regards and thanks for the baklava. <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">✉ 14:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for feedback - Good to know that you are an administrator. I am in a talk with * about Potiskum Emirate page. I am not sure if *is collaborating. comment added by Ga.gatto.sa (talk

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Thanks for your kind words. Have you seen my dictionaries website? -- http://lostmarbles31.wix.com/aardvarks-lexico

I don't quite understand the objection to the very existence of the Nanumba article. As a lexicographer I follow the principle of closure -- if a word is in an entry for another word, as definition or in an example, it should have an entry itself in the dictionary. Extending this to encyclopædic material is a bit less precise, but if (in this case) Bimbilla is stated to be the seat of the paramount of the Nanumba people, then I seems axiomatic to me that Nanumba people should have an entry. I am trying to fill in the coverage of the Western Oti-Volta languages and their speakers in a consistent and systematic manner. I feel that consistency is also a desirability for reference materials but it is difficult to achieve in the wiki paradigm. When I first started in the early days of Wikipedia there was a very good article on Dagbani which I wanted to clone as a pattern for entries on the other languages, but I didn't then know how to do it (and possibly the system didn't allow it at that time). Later the Dagbani entry was hijacked bu some Dagomba nationalists who made it a subjective pæan of praise for the Dagomba and their superiority to their neighbours -- nicely-done and very suitable for a website of something like a Dagomba Youth Association but not for an encyclopædia. The Dagbani entry has since been made more appropriate, and I have done some minor edits to follow its pattern in the entries for the related languages, and back-adjusted the Dagbani entry to match the more linguistically-accurate data on the comparative situation which is the area in which I am really one of the experts to go to. All this was filling out stubs: the Nanumba entry has been the first place where there was a gap needing a completely new entry, so I'm not sure how to meet the objections which have been raised to it. Tony Naden (talk) 09:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Tony, from where you stand, ie coming from the academic world, I can understand how frustrating it must be for you stepping into the wiki world where things are done slight differently. Strong Regerences are not enough, they should be easily verifiable (and published by neutral medias) and come from multiple locations. I have expanded the references and added URL's to existing ones. I am pinging SwisterTwister to have a look again but that'd be after you've resubmitted the draft. So please go ahead and click the Resubmit button, I am confident it will be accepted this time.


 * PS. I've had access to your Dagbani Dictionary since last year, I was pointed to it by Roger Blench when I needed translations for medical terms to produce an article about Ebola in Dagbani during the crisis. I have since been referring to it to write others! But the Mampruli version is new to me. I am reading it now and I feel very excited. Thanks so much for your invaluable work! <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">✉ 16:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #192
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 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
 * Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
 * Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
 * Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
 * Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
 * Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
 * Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
 * Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
 * Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
 * Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
 * Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
 * Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
 * Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
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 * Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
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 * Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (T67397)
 * Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
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 * Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (T123233)
 * Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (T119493)
 * Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (T120196)
 * Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (T94989)
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Tech News: 2016-03
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Recent changes
 * You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki.
 * Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis.

Changes this week Meetings
 * The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving.
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Newsletter • January 2016

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

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
 * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
 * One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
 * Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

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Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest
Hello Masssly, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 07:39, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Unblock appeals
Hi, Nkansahrexford (see here) was blocked some 10 months ago and as such is left with no opportunity to request an unblock and learn from their mistakes them self. My question has to do with requesting for an unblock on their behalf. I am seeking a second opinion since I have not seen anybody do this before. 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">✉ 13:02, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Masssly, thanks for your willingness to help return to Wikipedia. <Del>However, your talk page is not the appropriate page to request unblock for a blocked user, instead you can contact the blocking admin directly on their talk page . Pinging  who issued the block but Nkansahrexford may request an unblock via the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS), provided they now have an understanding of the principle of WP:CV. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 13:47, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikicology I don't think my help me inquiry suggests I am requesting for an unblock on my talk page, not sure though why you would think so or how you read it but thanks anyway for your response. I am well aware its not used for that purpose. My request actually was intended to seek a second opinion. <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">✉ 19:08, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * My bad! Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 19:50, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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Recent changes
 * You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week.
 * Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * 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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension.
 * The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade.
 * Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones.

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Wikidata weekly summary #193
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 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
 * Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
 * Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports  OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
 * Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
 * Wikidata Graph Builder
 * Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
 * You can give input on WMF's strategy
 * Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
 * Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
 * Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
 * French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
 * Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
 * Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
 * Development
 * Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (T124276)
 * Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (T78006)
 * Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
 * Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
 * Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (T103102, T94989)
 * Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
 * Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (T117421)
 * Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (T92387)
 * More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (T119493)
 * 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.

Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015
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 * Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
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