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Wikidata weekly summary #148
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 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Haplology
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
 * upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help flesh out landing pages for partners
 * Update on the Wikidata query service progress
 * The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
 * Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
 * Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
 * Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
 * Development
 * Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
 * Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
 * Worked on updating the data model documentation
 * Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
 * Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
 * Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
 * Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-11
 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
 * You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter.
 * VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
 * In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia.
 * The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs.
 * You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading.
 * You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools.
 * If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages.
 * You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator.

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Wikidata weekly summary #149
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) 20:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful RfA: Haplology
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Pictures, reloaded
 * Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
 * Linkin mash
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Simple Wikidata graph generator
 * Please help test the next step for header redesign
 * Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
 * Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
 * Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
 * Query generator spreadsheet
 * Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
 * Development
 * Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
 * Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
 * Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
 * Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
 * Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-12
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images.
 * You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary.
 * It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki.

Problems
 * Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
 * A puzzle piece icon (VisualEditor - Icon - Template-big.svg) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates.
 * You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.
 * You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.
 * The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts.

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I didn't edit the page
Hi Quenhitran,

Re: Ash Ketchum

I didn't edit that page. Maybe my account has been compromised? Can you get someone to check that?

Thanks, David.

Dptalbot (talk) 04:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dptalbot (talk • contribs) 04:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #150
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) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Editathon at MACBA
 * Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
 * We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
 * Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
 * There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
 * First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
 * DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
 * Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
 * Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
 * Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
 * Development
 * Fixed property suggestions on empty items
 * Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
 * Updated various documentation
 * Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
 * Polishing in the user interface
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-13
 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 this week Meetings
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
 * The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page.
 * VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor.
 * When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it.
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system.

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Wikidata weekly summary #151
<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="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; John F. Lewis 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Sex and artists
 * VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
 * Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
 * New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
 * An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
 * The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
 * Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
 * Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
 * New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
 * There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
 * Development
 * Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
 * Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
 * Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
 * Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
 * Looked into improving suggestions
 * Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
 * Removed backwards compatibility from, to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
 * Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
 * Created a unit test framework for special pages
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-14
<section begin="technews-2015-W14"/> 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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account.
 * You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki.
 * All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser.
 * You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.
 * VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
 * VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias.
 * You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account.
 * You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles.
 * You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page.
 * VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC).
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Your edit on DC vs. Marvel
Your recent edit on DC vs. Marvel restored vandalism. AFAIK Superman has never fought Gareth Bale, a Welsh foodballer. Bale is also not a Marvel character. Don't worry, I fixed it. Please check before you click next time.-- <font color="#FC3700">Auric  <font color="#0C0F00">talk  12:27, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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Um, I read the sources and Adelaide was founded in 1993. Columbia Pictures Television formed the animation studio for television production. It's not part of Sony Pictures Animation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.93.196.190 (talk) 16:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #2—2015
Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:



Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:



After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.  Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
 * The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
 * File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

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VisualEditor News #2—2015
Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:



Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:



After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead (T90734).

Looking ahead
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon.

Let's work together

 * Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
 * Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language.  Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
 * The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
 * File requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

-Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk), 18:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement



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 * This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 18 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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Wikidata weekly summary #152
<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="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; John F. Lewis 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
 * The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
 * The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
 * Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
 * Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
 * A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
 * Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
 * Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
 * Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
 * Development
 * Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
 * Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
 * Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
 * Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (T92831)
 * Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)
Hello Quenhitran,

you removed my addition for the Forerunner 301 about the wraist band and required a source reference. There is no source reference, because I found this out myself. Still it is very useful information for all the people around owning and using the Forerunner 301, as this is the only part that failed during the almost 10 years I own this device.

Please re-insert my contribution again, because sharing useful information is the purpose of Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Peter Lambooy — Preceding unsigned comment added by PeterLambooy (talk • contribs) 07:30, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15
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Recent changes
 * You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs.
 * You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap.
 * The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month.
 * You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends.

Problems
 * The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary.
 * Labs was broken several times this week.

'''Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
 * You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor.
 * Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed.
 * You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.

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Wikidata weekly summary #153
<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="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; John F. Lewis 21:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data
 * Wikidata the Game - one year in
 * Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Build a RSS image feed based on a query
 * Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
 * ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
 * Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
 * Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
 * Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at T95287.
 * Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
 * Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
 * New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
 * New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
 * Development
 * We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (T94404)
 * Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (T95287)
 * Implemented arbitrary access for the parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using  . So far this is only Wikidata itself.
 * Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
 * Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
 * Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
 * Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
 * Fixed in other language box showing old data (T90893)
 * Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
 * Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Today's articles for improvement



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Tech News: 2015-16
<section begin="technews-2015-W16"/> 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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
 * You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page.
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.

Problems
 * Some wikis had issues on Wednesday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
 * Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Keeping Wikipedia Expanding Not Shrinking
Hello User:Quenhitran sorry for disturbing you. The reason I am writing you is we all love Wikipedia and we want it expanding. However there is a discussion going on to delete a notable game article because of biased opinions. I saw that you edited this article: A_Fistful_of_Gun and let it stay for further expansion, update and keep growing Wikipedia. But I am also totally agree with you to let articles stay for improvements and expand Wikipedia. So I believe you are a neutral, professional, objective and who believes in expanding Wikipedia not shrinking it type of person. So I would like you to check out this discussion Articles_for_deletion/MonsterMMORPG_(2nd_nomination) and make your comment based on references it has. References are here Talk:MonsterMMORPG. Please feel free to delete my message to you after you read it. Thank you very much have a nice day.176.233.41.152 (talk) 14:42, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2015
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Talk:Pascal and Maximus/GA1
Quenhitran, you opened this review over a month ago, but have done nothing with it since. Do you plan to do the review soon? If not, I can arrange to put this back into the reviewing pool with no loss of seniority. Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:06, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * @BlueMoonset: Oh, I'm sorry, I was working with the review offline but I forgot to post it back here since then  I'll be back right away with the comments. Thanks for reminding! — ALittle  Que nhi  ( talk to me ) 17:27, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #154
<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="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; John F. Lewis 09:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Aldnonymous
 * RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Redirects on Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
 * Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
 * Map of French national parks
 * Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
 * Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
 * Development
 * Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
 * Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
 * Expanded our set of automated browser tests
 * Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
 * Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
 * Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
 * Continued work on our RDF generator
 * Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
 * Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
 * Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
 * Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
 * Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
 * Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
 * More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
 * Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
 * Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
 * Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
 * Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * 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, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-17
<section begin="technews-2015-W17"/> 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
 * There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis.
 * VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis.
 * You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends.
 * If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Labs on Monday.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
 * Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis.
 * If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference.
 * You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits.

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
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Today's articles for improvement



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