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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Lourdes†
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
 * † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news
 * The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
 * Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
 * A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
 * A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news
 * CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
 * The edit filter has a new feature  that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards:, , , ,.

Obituaries
 * Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


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

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

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

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

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

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]

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

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

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

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

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

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #302
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
 * WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
 * Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter


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


 * Did you know?


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


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


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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-10
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now make longer edit summaries.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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

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This Month in GLAM: February 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CXLIII, March 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #303
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Notability and Commons


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
 * Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
 * German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
 * Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
 * Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
 * Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS updater switched to Kafka
 * First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
 * Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
 * "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
 * You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
 * Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
 * WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: calculated from
 * External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID


 * Query examples:
 * Some costume items ending in 'us'
 * Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
 * WikiProjects about women (source)
 * Software of the KDE community (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20films%20starring%20more%20than%20one%20future%20head%20of%20government%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20CONCAT%28%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%40en%2C%20%3Fdescription%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%3B%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FheadsOfGovernment%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpublicationDate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement.%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernment.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter.%20%3Fcharacter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcharacterLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%23%20label%20service%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20work%20for%20this%20one%20for%20some%20reason%20%E2%80%93%20perhaps%20the%20query%20optimizer%20is%20being%20stupid%20and%20moving%20the%20label%20service%20before%20this%20optional%20block%2C%20so%20that%20%3Fcharacter%20isn%E2%80%99t%20bound%20yet%20when%20the%20label%20service%20runs%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fposition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FstartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartTime%20%3E%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20%2afuture%2a%20head%20of%20government%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3FotherPosition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FotherStartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FotherPosition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3FotherStartTime%20%3C%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20not%20already%20a%20head%20of%20government%20%28some%20people%20held%20multiple%20%E2%80%9Chead%20of%20government%E2%80%9D%20offices%2C%20or%20the%20same%20one%20multiple%20times%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpositionLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArunLast%20false.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FcharacterLabel%2C%20%22%20%2F%20%22%40en%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20ASC%28MIN%28%3FpublicationDate%29%29 Films starring more than one future head of government] (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Female%20computer%20scientists%0ASELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?deathDate%20?deathPrecision%20?image%20?educated_at%20?country_of_birth%20?award_received%20?rank%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20?rank%0A(SAMPLE(?deathDate)%20as%20?deathDate)%0A(SAMPLE(?deathPrecision)%20as%20?deathPrecision)%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A?person%20wdt:P106/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q82594%20.%20%0A?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072%20.%0A?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birthDateNode%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birthDate%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birthPrecision%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?deathDateNode%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?deathDate%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?deathPrecision%20.%0A%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P18%20?image%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P19%20?birthPlaceItem%20.%20?birthPlaceItem%20wdt:P17%20?birthCountryItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P69%20?educationItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?awardsItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?article%20schema:about%20?person%20%7D%0A?person%20wikibase:sitelinks%20?rank%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20%20?rank%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?person%20rdfs:label%20?personLabel%20.%0A?educationItem%20rdfs:label%20?educated_at%20.%0A?birthCountryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth%20.%0A?awardsItem%20rdfs:label%20?award_received%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=person&l=person&t=personLabel&s=birthDate&sp=birthPrecision&e=deathDate&ep=deathPrecision&i=image&c=country_of_birth&f=educated_at,award_received&v=t Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists] (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen


 * Development
 * Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
 * Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11
 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
 * 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons.
 * Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made.
 * Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be [ tagged] for review.
 * Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.

Problems
 * The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
 * It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2018-12
 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
 * On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg There is no Editing team meeting this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
 * In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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Wikidata weekly summary #304
<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;">
 * Discussions
 * Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn


 * Events
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
 * Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
 * OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
 * How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
 * There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
 * George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
 * New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
 * The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
 * Help:Conflation of 2 persons


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
 * External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier


 * New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID,  UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
 * Query examples:
 * Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
 * Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
 * Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
 * In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
 * Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
 * Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (T189506)
 * When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (T177970)
 * Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (T189772)
 * Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (T188990)
 * Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
 * Make it possible to remove a Form (T173332)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [ More information ]


 * Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages ]
 * Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented.
 * Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed.

Future changes
 * An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team.

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions.

Problems
 * It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed.

Future changes Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well.

Wikidata weekly summary #305
<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;">
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
 * Closed request for comments: Former ATE


 * Events
 * Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
 * Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
 * Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
 * Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
 * Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
 * External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
 * External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)


 * Query examples:
 * Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
 * Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
 * Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
 * Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
 * Newest database reports: HOLBY CI+Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
 * Development
 * New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
 * Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (T189679)
 * Allow to remove a Form (T189675)
 * Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (T189143)
 * Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (T187215)
 * Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (T189777, T188993, T188279)
 * Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (T189842)
 * Improving the performance of a table in the database (T180834)
 * Improving the way we're building dumps (T177550)
 * Investigate on improving Lua functions (T143970)


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-13
<section begin="technews-2018-W13"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
 * TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes
 * From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details.
 * Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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