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Wikidata weekly summary #109
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 23:01, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Developer user group
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
 * Development
 * Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
 * More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
 * Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
 * Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (55347)
 * Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (63309)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

This Month in GLAM: April 2014
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Tech News: 2014-20
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news
 * A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis.
 * Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly.

Future software changes
 * It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently.
 * You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API.
 * You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with.
 * The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work.
 * The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded.
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
 * An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion).
 * Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets [ that link to the Toolserver] to point to Tool Labs instead.

Problems
 * There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error.

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This Month in Education: May 2014
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I don't get that
Hi Tom,

By a huge coincidence I added the birth-date of Janet Soskice very soon after you had created the article. Coincidence because I was working on random birthdays and she came up. What surprised me was that the edit time shown for the creation of the article is tomorrow. How does that work? Are you also Dr Who and are operating in the future. It made me smile with curiosity. You look like the sort of person that could explain it to a simple pensioner. Best Richard Avery (talk) 07:20, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

No, no, no. Ignore me Tom, I have muddled March and May. It must be a wonder I manage to get my trousers on the right way round in the morning. Apologies. As you were. Richard Avery (talk) 07:27, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * If I had time travel powers, messing with Wikipedia would be fairly low priority. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:34, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110
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 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
 * Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
 * Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
 * The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
 * The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest task forces: WikiProject Mathematics
 * Development
 * We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
 * Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
 * Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
 * Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
 * Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
 * Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
 * Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
 * Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
 * Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
 * Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
 * Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (64741)
 * More testing on simple queries
 * Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-21
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates
 * Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
 * The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work.
 * MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome.
 * VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys.
 * VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like  and not just.
 * VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it.
 * VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit.
 * The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor.

Future software changes
 * User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences.

Problems
 * For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem.

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