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Wikidata weekly summary #118
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 23:14, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about removing person data
 * Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Main Page redesign suggestions
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
 * Development
 * Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
 * Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
 * Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
 * Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
 * Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-30
 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 (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
 * CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date.
 * The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places.
 * Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions.
 * A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on [//tools.wmflabs.org/ Tool Labs].

VisualEditor news
 * Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome.
 * All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons.
 * You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target.
 * Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week.

Future software changes
 * It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow.
 * You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
 * An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode.
 * A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems
 * Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem.

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Confusion in Media regarding scope of your blockage of IP 143.231.249.138
Please address the issue raised on this talk page. Thank you. JohnValeron (talk) 15:45, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #119
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 22:48, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * User conduct policies RfC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
 * User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikisource
 * Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
 * Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
 * Development
 * Published the first JSON dumps
 * Finishing touches on badges support
 * Finishing touches on redirects
 * Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
 * Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
 * Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
 * The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
 * Worked on improving the code of the parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-31
 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 (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
 * You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor.
 * The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit.
 * If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters.
 * You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation.

Future software changes
 * You will soon be able to filter [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1 Meta-Wiki's user rights log] by wiki and user.
 * Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Badges Wikidata's list].
 * It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace.

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You have been active at the article or talk page, so here's a note about Anarcho-capitalism
I have nominated Anarcho-capitalism for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Binksternet (talk) 18:14, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey thanks
Hey thanks for the Barnstar. I am really excited to continue my work at METRO this summer, fall, and winter. Please find info on our upcoming events at GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. See you at the next WMNYC event! OR drohowa (talk) 14:09, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OR drohowa: that is unlikely - I don't like in NYC, I live in London. I just saw the work you'd been doing while patrolling and thought to drop you a barnstar. —Tom Morris (talk) 15:02, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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