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Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
 * Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
 * Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
 * The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
 * The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest task forces: WikiProject Mathematics
 * Development
 * We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
 * Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
 * Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
 * Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
 * Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
 * Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
 * Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
 * Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
 * Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
 * Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
 * Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (64741)
 * More testing on simple queries
 * Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
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VisualEditor newsletter—May 2014


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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on the new citation tool, improving performance, reducing technical debt, and other infrastructure needs.

The biggest change in the last few weeks is the new citation template menu, labeled "". The new citation menu offers a locally configurable list of citation templates on the main toolbar. It adds or opens references using the simplified template dialog that was deployed last month. This tool is in addition to the "" item in the "" menu, and it is not displayed unless it has been configured for that wiki. To enable this tool on your wiki, see the instructions at VisualEditor/Citation tool.

Eventually, the VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for these citations. When this long-awaited feature is created, you could add an ISBN, URL, DOI or other identifier to the citation tool, and VisualEditor would automatically fill in as much information for that source as possible. The concept drawings can be seen at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog, and your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted.


 * There is a new Beta Feature for setting content language and direction. This allows editors who have opted in to use the "" tool in the "" menu to add HTML span tags that label text with the language and as being left-to-right (LTR) or right-to-left (RTL), like this:   .  This tool is most useful for pages whose text combines multiple languages with different directions, common on Right-to-Left wikis.
 * The tool for editing mathematics formulae in VisualEditor has been slightly updated and is now available to all users, as the "" item in the "" menu. It uses LaTeX like in the wikitext editor.
 * The layout of template dialogs has been changed, putting the label above the field. Parameters are now called "fields", to avoid a technical term that many editors are unfamiliar with.
 * TemplateData has been expanded: You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData, and VisualEditor will display them in the template dialogs like required ones.  "Suggested" is recommended for parameters that are commonly used, but not actually required to make the template work.  There is also a new type for TemplateData parameters:  wiki-file-name, for file names.  The template tool can now tell you if a parameter is marked as being obsolete.
 * Some templates that previously displayed strangely due to absolute CSS positioning hacks should now display correctly.
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 * Adding a category that is a redirect to another category prompts you to add the target category instead of the redirect.
 * In the "" dialog, it is no longer possible to set a redundant border for thumbnail and framed images.
 * There is a new Template Documentation Editor for TemplateData. You can test it by editing a documentation subpage (not a template page) at Mediawiki.org: edit mw:Template:Sandbox/doc, and then click "Manage template documentation" above the wikitext edit box.  If your community would like to use this TemplateData editor at your project, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.
 * There have been multiple small changes to the appearance: External links are shown in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.  This is a lighter shade of blue than the internal links.  The styling of the "" (character formatting) drop-down menu has been synchronized with the recent font changes to the Vector skin.  VisualEditor dialogs, such as the "" dialog, now use a "loading" animation of moving lines, rather than animated GIF images.  Other changes were made to the appearance upon opening a page in VisualEditor which should make the transition between reading and editing be smoother.
 * The developers merged in many minor fixes and improvements to MediaWiki interface integration (e.g., edit notices), and made VisualEditor handle Education Program pages better.
 * At the request of the community, VisualEditor has been deployed to Commons as an opt-in. It is currently available by default for 161 Wikipedia language editions and by opt-in through Beta Features at all others, as well as on several non-Wikipedia sites.

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Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 16:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Draft articles
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata office hour log
 * Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
 * Play the Wikidata Game
 * Development
 * jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
 * More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
 * Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
 * Continued working on monolingual text data type
 * Continued making messages easier to understand
 * Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #111
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
 * Wikidata:Tours
 * RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Slides from WikiConference USA
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
 * Development
 * More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
 * More work on monolingual text datatype
 * Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like 65398
 * Made progress on globe precision issues (65535 and 64887)
 * Cleaned up installation instructions
 * Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #112
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
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 * Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
 * Development
 * Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
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 * Released DataValues Time 0.6
 * Add time support to QueryEngine
 * Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
 * Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
 * Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
 * Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
 * Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
 * Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Talk:LG G2
In reference to your point 1.B., I thought you might be interested in the following, from Citing sources: ".... Citations are also often discouraged in the lead section of an article, insofar as it summarizes information for which sources are given later in the article, although such things as quotations and particularly controversial statements should be supported by citations even in the lead."

Just a friendly heads-up for future GA reviews. Thanks!&mdash; D'Ranged 1 VTalk  18:06, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I somehow missed this. Thanks for the heads up :) -- t  numbermaniac  c  23:46, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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Monash Freeway Exits and interchanges
Hi there Numbermaniac, Just to explain my reversion at Monash Freeway: Thanks, - Evad37 &#91;talk] 02:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * MOS:ICON – icons (including route shields/markers) should not be placed within prose – MOS:RJL specifies that they should be at the beginning of the line.
 * MOS:ACCESS – We need to remember accessibility for those users that can't see well or at all, and use a screen reader, or those that have turned all images off in there browser. Therefore, we need to provide text for the road routes, not just the shield – which additionally helps readers who don't know what those symbols actually mean, such as people from elsewhere in the world (Wikipedia has a global audience). This is actually specified in MOS:RJL
 * Another issue is that junctions should be in the destination column, including those at the beginning and end of a road, not the notes column, which is for additional notes about that junctions – also in MOS:RJL


 * Fair enough then. Thanks. -- t  numbermaniac  c  05:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Wuzi of Han (Spring and Autumn)
In Wuzi of Han (Spring and Autumn) it talks much about "Han Wan"-- is he the same person as this Wuzi of Han? The page nowhere says. tahc chat 06:17, 1 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I only edited that article to fix a redirect, so I don't know much about the subject. You might be better off contacting the author of the article. Thanks. --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 04:20, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Idea for the GoToTop script
Hi. I've been using User:Numbermaniac/goToTop.js for a little while, and I find it useful. But do you think it would improve it to have a "▼ Go to bottom" button when at the top? This would help me on long talk pages. Eman 235 / talk 19:14, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I didn't realise people were finding it useful! Thanks for the idea, I'll try and add it in. --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 04:00, 26 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Yep, the VPs (and some talk pages) get very long sometimes. Eman 235 / talk  05:07, 26 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Turns out I'm having trouble making it work. Would you be able to help? --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 08:21, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Not me, I don't know much about js other than installing it. Perhaps someone at WP:VP/T would be able to help? Eman <font color="#6643d1">235 / talk  14:41, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I kind of did it. It works, except it doesn't disappear when you're at the bottom of a page. If you want to test it, you can add importScript('User:Numbermaniac/goToBottom.js'), and it should appear at the bottom right (rather than the bottom left, since Go to top is already there). Thanks! --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 04:04, 10 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That works very well, other than the bug. Thanks!
 * Maybe you should try reversing the "if" and "else" statements— the page is scrolled to the bottom,  . (Does that make any sense at all, or am I just crazy?)  Eman <font color="#6643d1">235 / talk  23:57, 10 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The idea is that, if your current scroll position is less than the height of the document minus the height of the footer, you're most likely not at the bottom. Otherwise, you probably are. I tried reversing it as you suggested, didn't work. I've found a possible solution, I'm going to try it now. --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 11:02, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Right, so that function doesn't do what I thought it'd do. It's late now, I'll be back tomorrow. :) --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 11:12, 11 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Ok, instead what it'll do is that it will disappear when you're more than 80% down the page. That means it may not disappear on very short pages, but otherwise it should. :) --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 03:25, 12 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That's great, thanks! Eman <font color="#6643d1">235 / talk  01:19, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for patrolling new pages. I'm just letting you know that I have removed the tags you placed on SS Lawton B. Evans and passed the article for inclusion. Articles you tag will not be passed as reviewed until checked by a New Page Reviewer. Please consider reading the instructions for patrolling new pages. Thanks.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:40, 27 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know. --  numbermaniac  ( talk ) 08:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter (November 2016)
Hello ,


 * Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action. If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work! Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.
 * Second set of eyes

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation. Originally sent to all New Page Reviewers 26 November 2016. This message sent manually. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:20, 7 December 2016 (UTC).
 * Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))

AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)