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Tech News: 2020-04
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the  tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #400
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
 * Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
 * The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
 * The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
 * Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
 * Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
 * Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
 * From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
 * Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
 * Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
 * List of 400m distance sports events.
 * 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
 * List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
 * Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!


 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
 * Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
 * Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th


 * Tool of the week
 * Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
 * OpenRefine usage survey 2020
 * Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
 * External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
 * External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID


 * Query examples:
 * The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
 * Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
 * 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)


 * Development
 * More work on wb_terms migration
 * Units support for quantity datatype (T239474)
 * Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (T222257)
 * More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
 * Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (T243269, T242212)
 * Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (T234789)
 * Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:03, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 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: 2020-05
 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
 * Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it.

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

Future changes
 * There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at T232688.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Jkxyz/Spartan race
User:Jkxyz/Spartan race, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Jkxyz/Spartan race and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:Jkxyz/Spartan race during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:00, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Dennis Brown
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Wikidata weekly summary #401
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel


 * Events
 * Past: | Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham


 * Tool of the week
 * VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
 * 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
 * Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
 * Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
 * OpenRefine 3.3 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
 * External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
 * External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
 * Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
 * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
 * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)


 * Development
 * Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
 * Work on adding a button to hide the notification (T234789)
 * Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (T234790)
 * More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
 * More work on wb_terms migration

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * 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: 2020-06
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:05, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
BlackcurrantTea (talk) 14:27, 9 February 2020 (UTC)