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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
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 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
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Tech News: 2016-05
 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
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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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Fairhead
Why do you keep censoring Fairhead's other current jobs on the BBC Trust site? You don't have a problem with Carr's other job. It is important for people to know that the Trust Chair has other jobs. Please explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.107.40 (talk) 15:29, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject MedinaPedia
Template:WikiProject MedinaPedia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ricky81682 (talk) 07:59, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06
 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
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) 21:42, 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)

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Hello from VALA2016
Hello Andy, starting with Tangyes lantern slides - after that beer. Elyw (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

GLAM idea VALA16
Thanks for the talks. Love the idea of finding local history photos or sketches. I will share this with the local cultural heritage librarians. HJLBeard (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello (vala)
Hi, I'm interested in the QRpedia project which is weird because I normally don't think QR codes are all that useful. Hmr au (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

From VALA 2016
Hello! Firstly, why pigsonthewing? Secondly, can I buy you a beer? Thirdly, I want a wiki-res to come and talk to the ACT Parliamentary library about our rare parliamentary author collection and how we can make it accessible. Jade Koekoe (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello Again ^_^
My Van from VALA.

This session has given the idea to encourage my local history colleague to perhaps prepare an article on the past and present of our library as our library has moved into the new building for about 2 years and the old library had been opened for 40 years prior. When I had previously researching about my library I had found very little information and this may be a good way for future students to find out about our library.

Mikki520 (talk) 04:44, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello
Informative! Interesting! Inspirational session! Want to learn more about Wikipedia.

Hi from VALA
Hey, i work in a public library and research my family history and plan to create articles relevant to my family history. Eliott george (talk) 04:48, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hijacking your bot
Hey Andy, the IMSLP TfD has been finished up, but it still needs to have some (now) legacy parameters changed. I was wondering if I could use your bot to make those changes (both templates have about 2500 transclusions). Cheers, Primefac (talk) 02:59, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't have a bot. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:15, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoops, was pointed to the wrong person. Sorry! Primefac (talk) 01:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-07
 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
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
 * 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.

Books & Bytes - Issue 15
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Tech News: 2016-08
<section begin="technews-2016-W08"/> 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
 * 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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Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<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) 22:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 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
 * 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.

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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The Signpost: 24 February 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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Tech News: 2016-09
<section begin="technews-2016-W09"/> 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
 * 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
 * Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project.
 * 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #198
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 * 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
 * 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.

URLs
Hi! I remember some time ago you asked at VPT tool for better external links analyzing. Yesterday I came across this tool. It may be not perfect, but it should answer to some of your questions, I think. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 09:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10
<section begin="technews-2016-W10"/> 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
 * Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB.
 * Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one.
 * The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this.
 * It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications.  will parse as   instead of   as it used to. Please use   or   instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects.

Problems
 * Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now.
 * The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title.
 * The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource.
 * You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon.
 * Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes.

Changes this week
 * Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
 * Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow  and   tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator.

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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones.
 * The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change.

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