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Wikidata weekly summary #173
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) 16:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
 * Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
 * First version of units is ready for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
 * Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
 * Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
 * Development
 * Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
 * Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
 * Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
 * API breaking change coming soon
 * API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (T97247)
 * Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
 * Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
 * Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as  which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (T93885)
 * Properties are now linked in the diff view (T105411)
 * Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg T68744, T48248, T86647)
 * Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (T110021)
 * Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (T109697)
 * Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
 * Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
 * Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-36
 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
 * VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
 * The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
 * VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module . Use   instead.
 * Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Potential admin
Hi, I notice you're on List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  09:25, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your appreciable response. There is no doubt that I'm interested in being an administrator on the English Wikipedia. I'm here on Wikipedia from last one year and have made nearly 7,000 edits which includes more than 40 articles. I know my these contributions are not that enough for the Wikimedia Foundation but begin an administrator I can be an assist to Wikipedia and can help a lot of contributors from the Republic of India and other nations. I've a good understanding of several local languages spoken in India, including English (I've made typo error but corrected once I noticed it) which is a positive point while helping volunteers on IRC channels. I never had any arguments over Wikipedia since I always try to resolve the issues by discussing the matters on the editor's or the article's talk page. Another thing, in the beginning of my contribution I made several mistakes which included nomination of Afds merely with no reliable references. If you still think I can be helpful to Wikipedia you can nominate my name. Thanks! — CutestPenguinHangout 14:03, 31 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool. Let's chat further here.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  11:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #174
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; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
 * Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
 * Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
 * Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
 * A new version of Kian has been released
 * The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
 * A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
 * >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
 * You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
 * Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
 * Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
 * A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
 * Development
 * Worked on search on the mobile site
 * Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
 * We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
 * Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
 * Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
 * Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-37
<section begin="technews-2015-W37"/> 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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users.
 * A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support.
 * You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed.
 * The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
 * The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters.
 * The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours.
 * Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places.

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