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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards



 * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
 * There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
 * Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar



 * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
 * One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
 * New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
 * Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
 * Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

 * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
 * Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
 * Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as . API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

Problems
 * There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
 * The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
 * Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

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 23 October. See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  14:42, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #387
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 on October 25-26. If you're not attending, you can follow most of the sessions remotely with live stream.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata's seventh birthday, on October 29th. You can organize an event in your area and add it to the list!
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Finding GLAMs campaign cont. with OpenRefine demo, 22 October. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikidata and Archival Metadata : opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon in Study day on Linked Data,, Friday November 22th, 2019.
 * Past: Several sessions at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2019 (11–13 October):
 * Wikidata content oriented projects, talk by Mārtiņš Bruņenieks (video)
 * Using Wikidata as an Educational Platform, talk by Nebojša Ratković (video)
 * Beyond the basics: Intermediate Wikidata tools, workshop by Asaf Bartov (not recorded)
 * Your first Wikidata Lua infobox, workshop by Tobias Schönberg (not recorded)


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Querying Wikidata RDF with SQL using RDF2X
 * Ozymandias in Canberra - how the Atlas of Living Australia could be enhanced using Wikidata
 * Knowledge Graph Consolidation by Unifying Synonymous Relationships - Jan-Christoph Kalo, et al.
 * PhD thesis: Candela Romero, Gustavo (2019). Publicación y enriquecimiento semántico de datos abiertos en bibliotecas digitales (in Spanish).
 * Wikidata Wordmap


 * Tool of the week
 * The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
 * Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
 * Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
 * You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: image backside, frontside image, gender educated, image with frame, line(s), minimum temperature record, glacier status, number of processor threads, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature
 * External identifiers: Professional Football League of Ukraine player ID, Rotterdam City Archives actor ID, FreeBSD port, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, Steam bundle ID, FantLab author ID, NAD place ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com referee ID, FantLab award ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab work ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, WorldFootball.net competition ID, Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID, Basis Wien person ID, Basis Wien institution ID, Basis Wien event ID, Basis Wien object ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Czech Fortuna liga player ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Soccerbase team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinematoscope film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: MOHW HospID, graph diameter, ICP filing, aspect, key col, key col of
 * External identifiers: FlashScore.com match ID, GHR Conditions ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munchs correspondance person ID, Neliti Journal ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph Serviceperson ID, iNaturalist place ID, dp.ru persons ID, IISG ID, ifixit ID, Wolfram Language entity type, CinemaRx person ID, Kinématoscope - Literary work, Kinématoscope - Film director, Kinématoscope - Writer, Stathletics-ID, BDFutbol team ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of châteaux in the French world heritage site "the Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fimage1%20%3Fitem1Label%20%3Frgb%20%3Fitem2%20%3Fimage2%20%3Fitem2Label%20%3FedgeLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem1%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fcharacter%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20sport%20-%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fsport%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP674%20%3Fcharacter.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP641%20%3Fsport.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Find%20games%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fgame%20as%20%3Fitem1%29%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7889.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fgame%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ219623.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%227FFF00%22%20as%20%3Frgb%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item1%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%28%3Fitem1%20AS%20%3Fitem2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item2%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item1%20.%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25item2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem1%20%3Fwdt%20%3Fitem2%20.%0A%20%20%3Fedge%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fwdt%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem1%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage1%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem2%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage2%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Graph of the personal relationships between Tekken characters and their fighting styles] (source)
 * Timeline of the chief ministers of Haryana and Maharashtra (source)
 * Language representation of descriptions in Wikidata for objects connected to Ksamsök (source)
 * Cricketers who have ever played on an Indian Super League team (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (T234094)
 * Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (T229241)
 * research delayed kicking in of Bridge (T233305)
 * enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (T230342)
 * More work on reducing the resource loader modules
 * More work on tainted references

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 &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44
 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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (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 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:25, 28 October 2019 (UTC)