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Dec 2015
Hi, I've left you a note here.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  07:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50
 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 Problems
 * Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias.
 * Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later.

Changes this week
 * You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles.
 * IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature.
 * You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be.
 * It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead.
 * You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor.
 * UploadWizard will look a bit different.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
 * New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default.

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Wikidata weekly summary #187
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) 15:49, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
 * notes
 * example queries
 * a few images
 * Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
 * Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
 * Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
 * Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
 * Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
 * Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
 * Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
 * The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
 * Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
 * We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
 * I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
 * Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
 * Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
 * Map of narrative locations in Denmark
 * Experimental REST API for Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
 * Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
 * Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
 * Development
 * Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
 * Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
 * Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
 * Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
 * Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
 * Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
 * Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
 * Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
 * Worked on PHP7 support
 * 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.

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