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GAN December 2013 Backlog Drive
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Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:50, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about the RfD process
 * Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
 * Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
 * d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
 * Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: none
 * Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
 * Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
 * Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
 * Development Word from John
 * To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)
Books & Bytes Sign up for monthly delivery Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world. Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations... Spotlight on people: Another Believer and Wiki Loves Libraries...  Books & Bytes in brief: From Dewey to Diversity conference...  Further reading: Digital library portals around the web...   Read Books & Bytes , 16:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Gary Alter
It looks like his publications may be under Alter GJ. Check the history of the alterable for more, someone did a mass removal. Sportfan5000 (talk) 18:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, User:Sportfan5000. I'll have a look again at the weekend. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:36, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Time Persons of the Year 1951–1975
Hi there. I know you have contributed to Time Person of the Year in the past. It would be great to have your opinion on an ongoing RfC at Template talk:Time Persons of the Year 1951–1975, regarding how entries for 1960 and 1975 are listed. Thanks. -  H IGHFIELDS  ( TALK    &bull;   UPLOADS  ) 15:24, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #87
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Change the resysopping process
 * Inactive administrators
 * Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
 * A few new features which require your testing!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
 * Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
 * Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
 * Development
 * Finalized localization of quantity values
 * Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
 * More work on improving diffs
 * Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
 * Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
 * Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
 * Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
 * Database performance improvements
 * Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
 * Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Tech News: 2013-49
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features
 * The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata.
 * JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster.

VisualEditor
 * You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows.
 * You can now open VisualEditor by adding  to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences.
 * Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page.

Problems
 * Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
 * The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2013-50
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features
 * You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used.
 * If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences.

VisualEditor
 * The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert".
 * You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
 * The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula".

Problems
 * There was a problem with the "" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone.
 * The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week.
 * Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
 * You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example)
 * GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17.
 * A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it.

Other
 * You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)