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Wikidata weekly summary #392
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Join the global WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
 * Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
 * Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
 * Past: | Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
 * Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).


 * Tool of the week
 * Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
 * Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
 * Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
 * New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
 * External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
 * External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID


 * Query examples:
 * Paintings of people with cats (source)
 * Number of English Lexemes in Wikidata by first letter (source)
 * Tree map of 1990s National Film Award winners, sorted by specific award (source)
 * Map of world's disputed areas (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
 * Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson


 * Development
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
 * Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (T238575)
 * More work on improving the edit summaries (T224013)
 * Bridge: Viewing existing references (T233397)
 * Preserving native behavior on key+click (T234060)
 * Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (T235771)
 * Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (T237368)

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!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's reply-link


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Evad37's Thanky* SuperHamster's CiteUnseen* Mattflaschen's Compare link.js
 * Enterprisey: diff-context* fancy-diffs* offset-history-link
 * BrandonXLF: NoRedirect* WatchDoc* HotDefaultSort* TodoList


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle has received multiple updates
 * Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks
 * For those who haven't noticed, per T234576, using  instead of   no longer works

Miscellaneous
 * Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
 * Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
 * Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
 * Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests
 * A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

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 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #393
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
 * Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past,,.
 * Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
 * Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
 * Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ


 * Tool of the week
 * Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
 * Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: covered period
 * External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
 * External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID


 * Query examples:
 * Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar (source)
 * Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en") (source)
 * Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list (source)
 * Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne


 * Development
 * Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
 * Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (T224013)
 * Implement Shortened version for edit summary (T224013)
 * Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (T226709)
 * Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (T232040)
 * Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (T232468)
 * Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (T235154)

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!

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Tech News: 2019-49
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Recent changes
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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Wikidata weekly summary #394
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
 * Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
 * Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
 * Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
 * How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
 * How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill


 * Tool of the week
 * overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: file page
 * External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
 * External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages (source)
 * Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata (source)
 * Movie directors having the longest carrier (source)


 * Development
 * Implement Shortened version for edit summary (T224013)
 * Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (T239411)
 * DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (T222497)
 * Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (T226709)
 * Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (T232468)

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.

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 * 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!

Tech News: 2019-50
 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
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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Weekly Summary #395
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 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
 * WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
 * Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019


 * Tool of the week
 * Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
 * New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
 * Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
 * MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
 * External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
 * External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID


 * Query examples:
 * Wikidata properties > 7000
 * Wikidata External identifiers > 4590
 * Map of locations of "big cities" (source)
 * Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election (source) (mapped)
 * artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana (image view)
 * Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support WikiForHumanRights)


 * Development
 * Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
 * Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (T235154)
 * Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (T240329)
 * More work on the new term store
 * Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (T235745)
 * New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
 * Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (T240316)
 * Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (T227083)

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!

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Tech News: 2019-51
<section begin="technews-2019-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

Your draft article, Draft:Mirza Azim Beg Chugtai


Hello, StudiesWorld. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Mirza Azim Beg Chugtai".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Bkissin (talk) 17:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52
<section begin="technews-2019-W52"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes
 * You can use  in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:38, 27 December 2019 (UTC)