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Tech News: 2018-09
 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
 * Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
 * Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
 * Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.

Changes later this week
 * Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #302
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
 * WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
 * Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Global preferences are available for testing
 * Statement 400.000.000 was created
 * You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
 * External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID


 * Query examples:
 * 3D models on Commons (source)
 * Timeline of programming languages (source)
 * Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
 * Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
 * Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
 * Newest database reports: nomes de países em português


 * Development
 * Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (T179012)
 * Investigate on the size of logging table (T188635)
 * Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (T186467)
 * Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (T186726)
 * Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-10
 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 make longer edit summaries.

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
 * On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
 * You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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Wikidata weekly summary #303
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Notability and Commons


 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
 * Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
 * German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
 * Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
 * Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
 * Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS updater switched to Kafka
 * First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
 * Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
 * "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
 * You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
 * Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
 * WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: calculated from
 * External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID


 * Query examples:
 * Some costume items ending in 'us'
 * Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
 * WikiProjects about women (source)
 * Software of the KDE community (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20films%20starring%20more%20than%20one%20future%20head%20of%20government%0ASELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20CONCAT%28%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%40en%2C%20%3Fdescription%29%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%3B%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FheadsOfGovernment%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3FpublicationDate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement.%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3FheadOfGovernment.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FheadOfGovernmentStatement%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter.%20%3Fcharacter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcharacterLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20%7D%20%23%20label%20service%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20work%20for%20this%20one%20for%20some%20reason%20%E2%80%93%20perhaps%20the%20query%20optimizer%20is%20being%20stupid%20and%20moving%20the%20label%20service%20before%20this%20optional%20block%2C%20so%20that%20%3Fcharacter%20isn%E2%80%99t%20bound%20yet%20when%20the%20label%20service%20runs%0A%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fposition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FstartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartTime%20%3E%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20%2afuture%2a%20head%20of%20government%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20p%3AP39%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP39%20%3FotherPosition%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3FotherStartTime%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FotherPosition%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20wd%3AQ2285706.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3FotherStartTime%20%3C%20%3FpublicationDate%29%20%23%20not%20already%20a%20head%20of%20government%20%28some%20people%20held%20multiple%20%E2%80%9Chead%20of%20government%E2%80%9D%20offices%2C%20or%20the%20same%20one%20multiple%20times%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FheadOfGovernment%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FheadOfGovernmentLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpositionLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3ArunLast%20false.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28BOUND%28%3FcharacterLabel%29%2C%20CONCAT%28%3FcharacterLabel%2C%20%22%20%2F%20%22%40en%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%2C%20%3FpositionLabel%29%20AS%20%3Fdescription%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20ASC%28MIN%28%3FpublicationDate%29%29 Films starring more than one future head of government] (source)
 * [http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=%23Female%20computer%20scientists%0ASELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?deathDate%20?deathPrecision%20?image%20?educated_at%20?country_of_birth%20?award_received%20?rank%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20?rank%0A(SAMPLE(?deathDate)%20as%20?deathDate)%0A(SAMPLE(?deathPrecision)%20as%20?deathPrecision)%0A(SAMPLE(?image)%20as%20?image)%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A?person%20wdt:P106/wdt:P279*%20wd:Q82594%20.%20%0A?person%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A?person%20wdt:P21%20wd:Q6581072%20.%0A?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birthDateNode%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birthDate%20.%0A?birthDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birthPrecision%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?deathDateNode%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?deathDate%20.%0A?deathDateNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?deathPrecision%20.%0A%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P18%20?image%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P19%20?birthPlaceItem%20.%20?birthPlaceItem%20wdt:P17%20?birthCountryItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P69%20?educationItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?awardsItem%20%7D%20%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B?article%20schema:about%20?person%20%7D%0A?person%20wikibase:sitelinks%20?rank%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?person%20?birthDate%20?birthPrecision%20?educationItem%20?birthCountryItem%20?awardsItem%20%20?rank%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?person%20rdfs:label%20?personLabel%20.%0A?educationItem%20rdfs:label%20?educated_at%20.%0A?birthCountryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth%20.%0A?awardsItem%20rdfs:label%20?award_received%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(?rank)&md=true&g=person&l=person&t=personLabel&s=birthDate&sp=birthPrecision&e=deathDate&ep=deathPrecision&i=image&c=country_of_birth&f=educated_at,award_received&v=t Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists] (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen


 * Development
 * Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
 * Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (T188279)
 * Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (T189320)
 * Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:46, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11
 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
 * 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons.
 * Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made.
 * Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be [ tagged] for review.
 * Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab.

Problems
 * The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC).

Changes later this week
 * You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week.
 * It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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