User talk:Ruud Koot/2013

Broadcast XML Nominated for deletion
Broadcast Markup Language has been nominated for deletion by a user who is involved in trying to delet the BeerXML article and is now trawling Wikipedia for other articles to delete because they are losing that debate and feel that if other XML derived standards are deleted it might help them win the argument they are losing. Please challenge its deletion if you feel this is an unnacceptable. Regards Devils In Skirts! (talk) 12:15, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Translation request
Hi Ruud, happy New Year. :-) Could I ask you a favour? I'm nominating Icelandic Phallological Museum for Today's Featured Article but would like to increase its score. It's only 5 languages off being a "widely covered" topic. Would you mind translating the stub article at User:Prioryman/Icelandic Phallological Museum summary for the Dutch wiki? Prioryman (talk) 21:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. Reminded me of a similarly themed exhibition at Museum Catharijneconvent. —Ruud 22:21, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much! It's probably a good thing the nuns are no longer in residence. ;-) Prioryman (talk) 22:24, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Is it permitted to take an image under Wikipedia Commons Lisence and use it to make a cover of a book ?
Hello Ruud Koot,

I am looking for an imagery of Mandelbrot and I am not sure if it is permitted to use this image, that was given under the Commons Lisence. Can we use it outside Wikipedia like to make a cover for a book, if we give the name of the author and declare he does'nt have to endorse what is written in the book...

Thank you for your information,

Yours truly, De Medicis--De Medicis (talk) 01:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Certainly. You should can give attribution to the author (and must also note the image is licensed under a Creative Common license) in the image credits section of book. Regards, —Ruud 17:21, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeap you can with any Creative Commons license that allows re-use with attribution. If you want to use the image in an commercial advertisement you may want to choose a Creative Commons license that allows commercial use of the image. An image released under Creative Commons may have other third-party limitations, for example if the image shows an artist's work then the artist may prohibit you from using the image on a book even if the image's copyright holder has released the image under Creative Commons, because copyright over the image and copyright or other rights over things shown in the image are two different things. Sofia Lucifairy (talk) 16:54, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

IDEF
Hi Ruud, could you give your opinion on this subject. Thanks. -- Mdd (talk) 01:55, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I've never heard of this, so I wouldn't really know what the common name is. —Ruud 18:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I guess your response shouldn't come as a surprise, given the width of the computer science discipline, but still it does. Do you know of any other (active) Wikipedians, who could give an expert opinion here? -- Mdd (talk) 19:45, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Not really. I would try at WikiProject Computer science or Computing, or else check through the contribution histories of some related articles. Cheers, —Ruud 20:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will give that a try. -- Mdd (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

ISBN Searching
I've started a new discussion at Wikipedia_talk:ISBN, I note that you previously were interested in this page and would be grateful for any comments. Apologies in advance if this is not relevant. nonsense ferret 01:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Interwiki links
Why do you restore iw links back? They come directly from Wikidata. --Stryn (talk) 17:26, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * The user who removed those links did not check if they were in fact on Wikidata. If they are, a bot should remove them again soon. —Ruud 17:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. So, you wouldn't mind if I do an actual check and revert your edit? (Just for the record, I am talking about this.) Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Of course not, although I really don't see why we won't let the mindless bots do the work, they tend to make less mistakes.  --Ruud  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.7.224.85 (talk) 17:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi. If you insist I will. But as for the why, let's just say it is for the same reason that I edit Wikipedia. Makes me feel useful, making edits that no one reverts. Every other edit that I make is subject to others' scrutiny, often revert plus discussion and occasionally revert wars which I try to avoid. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * PLEASE STOP reverting/bringing back the interwiki links! Bots adding and removing interwikilinks since ages (and yes they do mistakes), but we already have a bot who is checking, recognizing and marking a page of incorrect removals of interwiki links which were checked by other volunteers! mabdul 18:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. This user's "migrations" were of an exceptionally poor quality. I'm sure Addbot will have a much easier time cleaning up a few duplicate interwiki links than recovering the missing ones. —Ruud 19:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Computer science
Hey there. It's not possible to add an (using old terminology here) interwiki link to an article for which a wiki already links to (on some other article). Quite a few of those wikis then, have chosen to use the equivalent "Computer science" or "Informatica" interwiki link on an article other than the one we're looking at, so we can't add the iw to Wikidata for it. It's best to leave it up to someone from those wikis to determine what they want to do. The individual wiki users should decide, in their own language, what to link to. Have a great weekend, Dawnseeker2000   14:57, 1 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I looked at the first 10% and once it became clear that most of the articles were already linked to I stopped comparing. And of course I won't mind putting the links back, but do you mind if I have a look at the rest first? And I'd like to look at the work of the other editor too. If there were changes that were made too hastily I wouldn't mind checking for that. Which editor should I look for? Dawnseeker2000   17:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Closures
Who decides what languages support closures on the Closure page? Why List some languages and not others? Either allow the languages that do to be listed or remove references to all languages that do. Otherwise you are exposing a bias towards certain languages. Otherwise we are giving a false impression about which languages do. Millueradfa (talk) 17:25, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The editors of Wikipedia decide. Because a few concrete examples are helpful, while a completely exhaustive list in the lede is not. Neither of those options seems like a good idea, I prefer the middle ground as explained in the previous sentence. No we are not, the "such as" indicates this is only a small set of examples. And again, no we are not, as the "such as" indicates this is only a small set of examples and not an exhaustive list.
 * If you want to include a full list of languages supporting closures, this would belong in a separate section at the bottom of the article, not in the lede.
 * Cheers, —Ruud 17:29, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

OK, then let's start such a section then at the bottom of the article. Millueradfa (talk) 17:34, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Hello. I noticed you are reverted my edit to Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. Do you have a rational for this? I am trying to avert something as silly as an edit war, and I'd like to hear your explanation. This was already discussed in the article's talk page. The Scythian 15:48, 31 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Assuming "this" refers to him being of Persian stock, then that would, of course, not be a valid reason for removing the Arabic spelling and Latin transliterations of his name. —Ruud 21:44, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Mass prodding of heuristic algorithms
Hi Ruud Koot,

I noticed that you proposed deletion for a number of biologically inspired optimization algorithm articles: Artificial bee colony algorithm, Bat algorithm, etc. I'm afraid I don't understand the rationale and none was provided on the talk pages. The asserted lack of notability/significance is controversial in each case I looked at. All the articles seemed well-cited with multiple peer-reviewed papers (with the exception of spiral optimization) and spot checks showed at least some of these refs exist. I gather that there is some problem with sock puppets of Metafun, but in some cases, like Artificial bee colony algorithm, the article history extends back several years and many authors. Before deprodding, I wanted to check with you to see what point I was missing. Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 23:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Same case here. I've noticed that there were references by Yang X. S all over the place, and it's OK to remove them where they're not relevant. But the articles themselves look OK. This recent mass-proposal for deletion of related articles should be handled through a centralized discussion. Diego (talk) 00:37, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Mark and Diego.
 * It's seems I've accidentally managed to lose the wordy reply I was writing to you and I don't have the time to rewrite it completely, so I apologize that you will have to do with a much shorter, more blunt and perhaps more cryptic one for now:
 * A long list of references does not establish notability, especially if those references are all authored by the original inventors ("peer-reviewed", or not) or are mere decoys (references that seem legitimate, but are in fact off-topic).
 * I hope that anyone considering deprodding those articles will do their due diligence by either finding sufficient secondary sources and making sure the articles are neutrally written or, after agreeing that they should in fact be deleted but not through a "proposed deletion", sending them to AfD. I shall likely not be able to that soon myself.
 * Cheers, —Ruud 01:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The problem with prods is that the put a time limit to all that work that must be done to assess the support (or lack thereof) given by the provided references. It would help this review that you provided at least a few examples of the kind of "decoys" that you think are being used. Diego (talk) 12:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Program logic -> Program logics?
Dear Ruud, I am interested in the article Separation logic and related pages. This article is in the category "Program logic" which you created. My question is: Would a better name for this category not be "Program logics"? If you agree, I propose to rename this category. (I think the same comment holds for the category "Substructural logic", but let's consider each case separately.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bart Jacobs (Leuven) (talk • contribs) 08:26, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Bart,
 * A convention that is often, but not always, followed for the naming of categories is that they should have the same name as their corresponding article and that for the latter the singular form is generally preferred over the plural (e.g. "Cat" and not "Cats".) So the article on substructural logics should probably stay at Substructural logic and, following the convention, the category probably at Category:Substructural logic. I think the underlying idea here is that the category does not only contain various "substructural logics", but, more broadly, all sorts of articles related to the topic of "substructural logic".
 * Browsing through the category tree you can find numerous exceptions to that rule, though. I don't have a particularly strong preference either way, so feel free to propose either of the categories for renaming. It is quite likely, though, that other people will oppose the proposed new new citing the aforementioned convention.
 * Groet, —Ruud 16:11, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Breath first search page should not exist
Hi, I edited that page but then checked its history (should have done it the other way around) and saw that you've created it as redirect to the breadth-first search article.

I think it shouldn't exist at all. Let Google search correct spelling errors; let us not reinforce the illusion that such a thing exists at all. People start believing that it does. Evidence: e.g..

I wanted to nominate that page Breath first search for speedy deletion. Would you object? -- WillNess (talk) 11:09, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Or we could transwiki it to the Uncyclopedia.Diego (talk) 14:49, 12 April 2013 (UTC)


 * This is one of my favourite words to accidentally misspell and it is (well, was) already tagged as a redirect from a misspelling. The stackoverflow link only shows that I'm not the only person that likes to wrongly name this search. In any case, I think keeping the redirect would be preferable over sending it to redirects for deletion, over nominating it for speedy deletion, over replacing its content with "There is no such thing." Cheers, —Ruud 15:28, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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DSB
Hi Ruud, thanks for your Dictionary of Scientific Biography page. I think for some reason it has 'ü' every time 'ö' should appear. Do you mind if I edit it to make the corrections? Dsp13 (talk) 19:48, 15 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hmm, good catch... I was already aware that some of the more exotic characters with diacritics had been replaced with question marks, but I hadn't noticed (or already forgotten) about that one. Feel free to make some corrections. I assume you also noticed that not all "ü"s should be replaced with an "ö", though. Cheers, —Ruud 20:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)


 * great - I'll leave the question marks ;) Dsp13 (talk) 20:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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Notifications box replacement prototypes released
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Hi, Ruud Koot. You are listed as the maintainer of a section of code in Common.js regarding the FA and GA tooltips in another language. I just fixed a grammar issue and have suggested another improvement that perhaps you could easily solve. Jason Quinn (talk) 02:01, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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Mahāvīra (mathematician)
Please restore this move. As per WP:ENGLISH article names should be like Devanagari, not like Devanāgarī. neo (talk) 20:38, 8 June 2013 (UTC)


 * English-language reliable sources always use a scientific transliterations when talking about medieval mathematicians. The current name it thus in perfect compliance with WP:ENGLISH. —Ruud 21:01, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * No such thing in WP:ENGLISH. If 2-3 sources have 'scientifically' translated 'Mahavira' as 'Mahāvīra' it doesn't mean that rest of humanity must be forced to type it as 'Mahāvīra'. Common people typle in search engines as 'Mahavira', not 'Mahāvīra'. If editors apply your logic, thousands of medieval India related articals will have to be renamed. Why confine to mathematicians only or to medieval period only? Pls restore move. neo (talk) 21:46, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not just two or three sources, scientific transliterations are ubiquitously used in reliable sources discussing non-western medieval mathematicians, so WP:ENGLISH is quite clear on this matter: we should follow the reliable sources and use a scientific transliteration on Wikipedia as well. Typing "Mahavira" into a search engine will still get you to the correct article, so this is a complete non-argument. I honestly don't care what does or doesn't happen to articles on non-mathematicians. —Ruud 21:52, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Even the sources listed on article are using 'Mahavira'. Most commonly recognizable name of the subject should be used as per WP:COMMONNAME. Only because it exists in reliable sources does not mean that it should be included in the article as per Verifiability does not guarantee inclusion. There should be consensus. Where is it? neo (talk) 08:23, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

I request you to explain your move on WT:INB in this thread. It may help to clear doubts regarding naming conventions. neo (talk) 09:52, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
 * Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
 * Development
 * Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
 * Started work on number data type
 * Worked on simple query special page
 * Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
 * Worked on JSON dumps
 * Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
 * Continued work on the merge items API module
 * Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
 * Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
 * Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
 * Continued moving to new browsertests framework
 * Bugfixes on autosummaries
 * Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
 * Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
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VisualEditor newsletter for September 19, 2013
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.

As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add  (underline),   (subscript), and   (superscript),   (strikethrough) and   (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.

In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).

In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl up to Ctrl sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.

Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).

Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.

Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).

Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #77
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
 * What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
 * “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
 * Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
 * Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
 * Stryn's request for oversight flag
 * Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
 * Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
 * Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
 * Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
 * Development
 * Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
 * Improved layout for commons sitelink table
 * More work on sorting
 * Worked on statements UI tests
 * Fixed failing QUnit tests
 * Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
 * Fixed a number of small bugs
 * Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
 * Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
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VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " ".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:52, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter on 16 October 2013
VisualEditor is still being updated every Thursday. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week. If you haven't done so already, you can turn on VisualEditor by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " ".

The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption (bug 50459).

There were a number of miscellaneous fixes made: Firstly, there was a bug that meant that it was impossible to move the cursor using the keyboard away from a selected node (like a reference or template) once it had been selected (bug 54443). Several improvements have been made to scrollable windows, panels, and menus when they don't fit on the screen or when the selected item moves off-screen. Editing in the "slug" at the start of a page no longer shows up a chess pawn character ("♙") in some circumstances (bug 54791). Another bug meant that links with a final punctuation character in them broke extending them in some circumstances (bug 54332). The "page settings" dialog once again allows you to remove categories (bug 54727). There have been some problems with deployment scripts, including one that resulted in VisualEditor being broken for an hour or two at all Wikipedias (bug 54935). Finally, snowmen characters ("☃") no longer appear near newly added references, templates and other nodes (bug 54712).

Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:53, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #80
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 * Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
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 * Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
 * Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
 * Newest task forces: International relations task force
 * Development
 * Further development on WikibaseDatabase
 * IE8 is working again
 * JSON socumentation created and merged
 * Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
 * Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 20:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

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Wikidata weekly summary #83
<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; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Lua enhancements discussion
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 * On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
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 * Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
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 * Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
 * Newest task forces: Athletics task force
 * You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
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 * Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (44876)
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 * Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
 * Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (49434)
 * Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (55667)
 * Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
 * Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
 * Fix validation of wbsetreference
 * Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
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 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #84
<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; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Instances of human
 * Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
 * Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
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 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
 * The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
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 * Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
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 * Development
 * Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bug 46538)
 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
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 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
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 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #84
<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; Global message delivery 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
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 * Fixed 49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
 * Worked on Lua improvements including 54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
 * Started making improvements to the loading time of items
 * Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (46217)
 * More work on ranks for statements
 * Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
 * Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
 * Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
 * Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
 * Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
 * Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
 * Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
 * Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
 * Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
 * Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:


 * Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed.  The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
 * Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
 * Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
 * File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
 * Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
 * Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
 * Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
 * Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through   and   both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
 * Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
 * Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
 * Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
 * Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
 * Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
 * Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
 * Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
 * Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ( set to true) (bug 44483).  (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead: If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:19, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
 * Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions.  Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
 * In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done.  Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

VisualEditor newsletter for November 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some feature changes, major infrastructure improvements to make the system more stable, dependable and extensible, some minor toolbar improvements, and fixing bugs.

A new form parsing library for language characters in Parsoid caused the corruption of pages containing diacritics for about an hour two weeks ago. Relatively few pages at the English Wikipedia were affected, but this created immediate problems at some other Wikipedias, sometimes affecting several dozen pages. The development teams for Parsoid and VisualEditor apologize for the serious disruption and thank the people who reported this emergency at VisualEditor/Feedback and on the public IRC channel, #mediawiki-visualeditor.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:


 * Accidental deletion of infoboxes and other items: You now need to press the Delete or Backspace key twice to delete a template, reference or image. The first time, the item becomes selected, and the second time, it is removed.  The need to press the delete key twice should make it more obvious what you are doing and help avoid accidental removals of infoboxes and similar (bug 55336).
 * Switch from VisualEditor to the wikitext editor: A new feature lets you make a direct, one-way editing interface change, which will preserve your changes without needing to save the page and re-open it in the wikitext editor (bug 50687). It is available in a new menu in the action buttons by the Cancel button (where the "Page Settings" button used to be). Note that this new feature is not currently working in Firefox.
 * Categories and Languages are also now directly available in that menu. The category suggestions drop-down was appearing in the wrong place rather than below its input box, which is now fixed. An incompatibility between VisualEditor and the deployed Parsoid service that prevented editing categories and language links was fixed.
 * File:, Help: and Category: namespaces: VisualEditor was enabled for these namespaces the on all wikis (bug 55968), the Portal: and Viquiprojecte: namespaces on the Catalan Wikipedia (bug 56000), and the Portal: and Book: namespaces on the English Wikipedia (bug 56001).
 * Media item resizing: We improved how files are viewed in a few ways. First, inline media items can now be resized in the same way that has been possible with block ones (like thumbnails) before. When resizing a media item, you can see a live preview of how it will look as you drag it (bug 54298). While you are dragging an image to resize it, we now show a label with the current dimensions (bug 54297). Once you have resized it, we fetch a new, higher resolution image for the media item if necessary (bug 55697). Manual setting of media item sizes in their dialog is nearly complete and should be available next week. If you hold down the shift key whilst resizing an image, it will now snap to a 10 pixel grid instead of the normal free-hand sizing. The media item resize label now is centered while resizing regardless of which tool you use to resize it.
 * Undo and redo: A number of improvements were made to the transactions system which make undoing and redoing more reliable during real-time collaboration (bug 53224).
 * Save dialogue: The save page was re-written to use the same code as all other dialogs (bug 48566), and in the process fixed a number of issues. The save dialog is re-accessible if it loses focus (bug 50722), or if you review a null edit (bug 53313); its checkboxes for minor edit, watch the page, and flagged revisions options now layout much more cleanly (bug 52175), and the tab order of the buttons is now closer to what users will expect (bug 51918). There was a bug in the save dialog that caused it to crash if there was an error in loading the page from Parsoid, which is now fixed.
 * Links to other articles or pages sometimes sent people to invalid pages. VisualEditor now keeps track of the context in which you loaded the page, which lets us fix up links in document to point to the correct place regardless of what entry point you launched the editor from—so the content of pages loaded through   and   both now have text links that work if triggered (bug 48915).
 * Toolbar links: A bug that caused the toolbar's menus to get shorter or even blank when scrolled down the page in Firefox is now fixed (bug 55343).
 * Numbered external links: VisualEditor now supports Parsoid's changed representation of numbered external links (bug 53505).
 * Removed empty templates: We also fixed an issue that meant that completely empty templates became impossible to interact with inside VisualEditor, as they didn't show up (bug 55810).
 * Mathematics formulae: If you would like to try the experimental LaTeX mathematics tool in VisualEditor, you will need to opt-in to Beta Features. This is currently available on Meta-wiki, Wikimedia Commons, and Mediawiki.org. It will be available on all other Wikimedia sites on 21 November.
 * Browser testing support: If you are interested in technical details, the browser tests were expanded to cover some basic cursor operations, which uncovered an issue in our testing framework that doesn't work with cursoring in Firefox; the Chrome tests continue to fail due to a bug with the welcome message for that part of the testing framework.
 * Load time: VisualEditor now uses content language when fetching TemplateData information, so reducing bandwidth use, and users on multi-language or multi-script wikis now get TemplateData hinting for templates as they would expect (bug 50888).
 * Reuse of VisualEditor: Work on spinning out the user experience (UX) framework from VisualEditor into oojs-ui, which lets other teams at Wikimedia (like Flow) and gadget authors re-use VisualEditor UX components, is now complete and is being moved to a shared code repository.
 * Support for private wikis: If you maintain a private wiki at home or at work, VisualEditor now supports editing of private wikis, by forwarding the Cookie: HTTP header to Parsoid ( set to true) (bug 44483).  (Most private wikis will also need to install Parsoid and node.js, as VisualEditor requires them.)

Looking ahead: If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 22:20, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
 * VisualEditor will be released to some of the smaller Wikipedias on 02 December 2013. If you are active at one or more smaller Wikipedias where VisualEditor is not yet generally available, please see the list at VisualEditor/Rollouts.
 * Public office hours on IRC to discuss VisualEditor with Product Manager James Forrester will be held on Monday, 2 December, at 1900 UTC and on Tuesday, 3 December, at 0100 UTC. Bring your questions.  Logs will be posted on Meta after each office hour completes.
 * In terms of feature improvements, one of the major infrastructure projects affects how inserting characters works, both using your computer's built-in Unicode input systems and through a planned character inserter tool for VisualEditor. The forthcoming rich copying and pasting feature was extended and greater testing is currently being done.  Work continues to support the improved reference dialog to quickly add citations based on local templates.

Wikidata weekly summary #85
<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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
 * Closed: Commons links
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * An interview with Denny Vrandečić
 * WikiCon 2013
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Reasonator now supports cities and locations
 * The quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
 * Development
 * Refactored Api output
 * Collect tasks for Google Code In
 * Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
 * Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
 * Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
 * Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
 * Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
 * Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
 * Improved Wikibase Lua code
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 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
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Wikidata weekly summary #86
<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 21:41, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Showcase items - take 2
 * Verified statements
 * Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
 * Closed: Image properties
 * Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
 * Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
 * Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities datatype is available for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
 * Newest task forces: Sports results task force
 * Development
 * Ranks are nearing completion (49120)
 * Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - 54318)
 * Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
 * Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
 * Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
 * Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
 * Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
 * Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (54324)
 * Released the Datavalues library
 * Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
 * Defined permissions for Simple Queries
 * First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
 * Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #87
<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 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
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 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
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Wikidata weekly summary #88
<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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
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 * Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
 * Newest task forces: Political geography task force
 * Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
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 * Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
 * Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
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VisualEditor newsletter • 19 December 2013
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some toolbar improvements, fixing bugs, and improving support for Indic languages as well as other languages with complex characters. The current focus is on improving the reference dialog and expanding the new character inserter tool.

There have been dozens of changes since the last newsletter. Here are some of the highlights:

Looking ahead: The transclusion dialog will see further changes in the coming weeks, with a simple mode for single templates and an advanced mode for more complex transclusions. The new character formatting menu on the toolbar will get an arrow to show that it is a drop-down menu. The reference dialog will be improved, and the Reference item will become a button in the main toolbar, rather than an item in the Insert menu.
 * Rich copying and pasting is now available. If you copy text from another website, then character formatting and some other HTML attributes are preserved.  This means, for example, that if you copy a pre-formatted suggested citation from a source like this, then VisualEditor will preserve the formatting of the title in the citation.  Keep in mind that copying the formatting may include formatting that you don't want (like section headings).  If you want to paste plain, unformatted text onto a page, then use Control or Command  (Mac).
 * Auto-numbered external links like can now be edited just like any other link.  However, they cannot be created in VisualEditor easily.
 * Several changes to the toolbar and dialogs have been made, and more are on the way. The toolbar has been simplified with a new drop-down text styles menu and an "insert" menu. Your feedback on the toolbar is wanted here.  The transclusion/template dialog has been simplified.  If you have enabled mathematical formula editing, then the menu item is now called the formula editor instead of LaTeX.
 * There is a new character inserter, which you can find in the new "insert" menu, with a capital Omega ("Ω"). It's a very basic set of characters.  Your feedback on the character inserter is wanted here.
 * Saving the page should seem faster by several seconds now.
 * It is now possible to access VisualEditor by manually editing the URL, even if you are not logged in or have not opted in to VisualEditor normally. To do so, append   to the end of the page name.  For example, change   to   to open a random page in VisualEditor.  This is intended to support bug testing across multiple browsers, without requiring editors to login repeatedly.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #89
<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 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
 * Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
 * RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams
 * Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
 * Development
 * Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
 * Improved and added a lot of tests
 * Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
 * No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
 * Caching and database improvements
 * Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
 * More work on quantities UI
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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Wikidata weekly summary #90
<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 23:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over handling of items
 * RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
 * Closed: Inactive administrators
 * Closed: Bot policy
 * Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
 * Open RfA: GerardM
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: chromosome, produces
 * Development
 * Redesign and improvement of bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
 * Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
 * Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
 * Some progress on redirects
 * Tests, tests, tests
 * Vacations \o/
 * Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #91
<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 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item