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Tech News: 2018-47
 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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is an A/B test for  data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks.

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

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 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated.
 * The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #339
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
 * Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
 * Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
 * The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
 * External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
 * External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%3Fitem%20%0A(SAMPLE(%3Fitem_label)%20AS%20%3Fbattle)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Fplace_label)%20AS%20%3Fplace_label)%0A(SAMPLE(%3FpartOf_label)%20AS%20%3FpartOf_label)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Fyear)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Fimage)%20AS%20%3Fimage)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Flayer)%20AS%20%3Flayer)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Fcoords)%20AS%20%3Fcoords)%0A(SAMPLE(%3Frgb)%20AS%20%3Frgb)%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ178561%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ188055%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fitem_label%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3Fitem_label)%20IN%20('fr'%2C%20'en'))%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20%3FpartOf%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpartOf%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartOf_label%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3FpartOf_label)%20IN%20('fr'%2C%20'en'))%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Place%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fplace_label%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(LANG(%3Fplace_label)%20IN%20('fr'%2C%20'en'))%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Coords%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FcoordsItem%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FcoordsPlace%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(COALESCE(%3FcoordsItem%2C%20%3FcoordsPlace)%20AS%20%3Fcoords)%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Date%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20(wdt%3AP585%7Cwdt%3AP580%7Cwdt%3AP582)%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20BIND(YEAR(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%23%20Layer%0A%20%20VALUES%20(%3Flayer%20%3Fmin%20%3Fmax%20%3Frgb)%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Prehistory%22%20-100000%20-3500%20%220078BF%22)%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Ancien%20History%20-3500%20%E2%86%92%20500%22%20-3500%20500%20%22DDD700%22)%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Middle%20Ages%20500%20%E2%86%92%201500%22%20-500%201500%20%225BD500%22)%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Early%20Modern%20Period%201500%20%E2%86%92%201750%22%201500%201750%20%2200CE23%22)%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Mid%20Modern%20Period%201750%20%E2%86%92%201914%22%201750%201914%20%2200C699%22)%0A%20%20%20%20(%22Contemporary%20Period%201914%20%E2%86%92%20present%22%201914%203500%20%220078BF%22)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20(%3Fmin%20%3C%3D%20%3Fyear%20%26%26%20%3Fyear%20%3C%20%3Fmax)%0A%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear%20%3Fbattle Battles with location and date in Wikidata] (source)
 * Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
 * Software-related companies founded by women (source)
 * Films based on video games (source)
 * Newest database reports: Vasily
 * Showcase items: Fugger


 * Development
 * Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (T154869)
 * Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (T124451)
 * Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (T208846)
 * Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
 * Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (T208681, T209206)
 * Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
 * Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
 * Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (T184933)
 * Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
 * Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (T204066)
 * Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (T207150)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Page Move Help
Hey there! Im aware that you have made a page creation protection to the title Ghairat. But i have recently accepted an AFC submission which appears to be notable now which is now found at Ghairat (Pakistani television series). Could you please unprotect it so that it can be moved there? Thanks VKZY LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 15:14, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Removed - TNT 💖 16:53, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks very much :) VKZY LUFan (talk) (Mind the Gap!) 22:45, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48
 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
 * On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use  to create a new page:  . The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages.

Changes later this week
 * The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia.
 * Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (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 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning   in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains  . There is a migration guide. It explains how to use   instead.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #340
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.


 * Events
 * Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
 * Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
 * Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
 * Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
 * Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
 * A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
 * SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
 * Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
 * Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
 * Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
 * Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
 * Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
 * Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
 * Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
 * The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
 * Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
 * Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
 * Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
 * External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
 * External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID


 * Query examples:
 * Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
 * Location of city halls in Spain (source)
 * Timeline of famous pirates (source)
 * Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
 * Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23The%20world's%20tallest%20200%20mountains%2C%20and%20if%2Fwhen%20they%20were%20first%20climbed.%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20(sample(%3Fheight)%20as%20%3Fheight)%20(year(%3Fdate)%20as%20%3Fyear)%20(sample(%3Flocation)%20as%20%3Flocation)%20%3Flayer%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ8502%20.%20%23%20Everything%20that's%20a%20mountain%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20coordinate%0A%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP2044%20%3Fheightstatement%20.%20%23%20and%20has%20a%20height-statement%0A%20%20%3Fheightstatement%20psv%3AP2044%20%3FPSVStatement.%20%23%20normalised%20height%20statement%0A%20%20%3FPSVStatement%20wikibase%3AquantityNormalized%20%3Fanother_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fanother_statement%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fheight.%23%20height%20-%20phew!%0A%20%20FILTER(%3Fheight%20%3E%206000)%20%23%20only%20the%20tallest%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fmountain%20p%3AP793%20%3Fevent%20.%20%23%20and%20within%20that%20%22significant%20event%22%20statement%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20ps%3AP793%20wd%3AQ1194369%20.%20%23%20continued...%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20.%20%23it%20has%20a%20%22point%20in%20time%22%20qualifier%20statement.%0A%20%20%20%20bind%20(%22Climbed%22%20as%20%3Flayer)%20%23%20this%20seems%20to%20be%20what%20we%20need%20to%20get%20colour%20labels%20-%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20ie%20if%20it%20falls%20in%20the%20optional%20group%20of%20%22was%20first%20summited%22%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20then%20bind%20to%20a%20new%20layer%2C%20otherwise%20no%20special%20layer%0A%20%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0Agroup%20by%20%3Fmountain%20%3FmountainLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Flayer%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20(%3Fheight)%0ALIMIT%20200 The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
 * Newest database reports: Fugger


 * Development
 * Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (T199420)
 * Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (T186006)
 * Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (T199611)
 * Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (T207484)
 * Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (T203354)
 * Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (T208423)
 * Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (T204397)
 * Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (T180303, thanks to Tpt)
 * Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (T203457, T209931)
 * More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:48, 1 December 2018 (UTC)