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This Month in GLAM: November 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #137
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
 * Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
 * past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
 * Development
 * More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
 * Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
 * Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
 * Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
 * Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
 * Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
 * Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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: 2014-51
 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 software changes
 * You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
 * You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf12 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
 * You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,  or.
 * VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
 * The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.

Future changes
 * The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
 * You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).

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Leslie Harpold
Hi Tom, Thanks for your help a couple years ago. I've worked very hard with help from some other folks and now have a complete and proper page for Leslie Harpold. Jessamyn West helped proof it and gave me some cleanup recommendations before I just now made it live, so I think we're all good to go. Note: the slightly unusual main photo is from the conference session discussed in the Influence subsection. MetaGrrrl (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC) Heh. Except that it apparently got created as Leslie harpold small-H. Working with Jessamyn to fix that.MetaGrrrl (talk) 21:57, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I've just sorted the copy-and-paste move, User:MetaGrrrl. Full response in a sec. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:03, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've now moved the page that was in your user space to Leslie Harpold, so it has the full edit history from when it was in your userspace. I've deleted the cut-and-paste move. I've redone a copyedit that User:Jessamyn made in the meantime. And I've put some WikiProjects on the talk page. Great work on finding all the sources and writing the article, User:MetaGrrrl. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:10, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hooray! Thank you so much for all your help, Tom. I deeply appreciate it!MetaGrrrl (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Pushing a few admin buttons takes no work at all compared to the hard work of finding sources and writing the article. Some barnstars should be turning up on your page and User:Jessamyn's page in just a moment. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:14, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)
Hello Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:


 * Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
 * Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
 * Pelican Books - ebook monographs
 * Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team.00:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)


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The Interview (2014 film)
There have been good-faith additions that have been reverted on good faith during protection. Perhaps extend protection? --George Ho (talk) 22:20, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Um... there have been vandalism at its talk page. Wanna take action? --George Ho (talk) 06:51, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm busy. AIV is that way. —Tom Morris (talk) 09:34, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #138
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 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Petr Matas
 * Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Welcome Freebase!
 * Freebase announcement
 * Wikidata announcement
 * Wikiproject
 * Primary sources tool
 * Heise
 * Venturebeat
 * Gigaom
 * Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
 * New tree of life based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
 * New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
 * Showcase items: Lion
 * Development
 * Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
 * Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
 * Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
 * Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
 * Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
 * Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
 * Finished tree of life
 * Some more work on support for units
 * Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
 * Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
 * The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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

VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014


Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor. Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements
Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid  and   elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl + F or ⌘ Cmd + F.

You can now create and edit simple  paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "" into a "".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing " * " will make the line a bullet list; " 1. " or " # " will make it a numbered list; " == " will make it a section heading; " : " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: " [[ " for opening the link tool, and " {{ " for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ⌃ Ctrl + K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead
VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Help
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 * Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
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 * The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.

Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52
 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 software changes
 * The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private.

Software changes this week
 * There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6.

Future changes
 * The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations.
 * A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis.

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Thanks for protecting the ISIL article
I was wondering about ways of extending protection to all groups in Category:Designated terrorist organizations associated with Islam. Would something like this be possible? Thanks. GregKaye ✍ ♪  18:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Gregkaye, there aren't really an admins who'd be keen on going for that. The protection policy says that we don't pre-emptively protect articles. That said, if there are articles about terrorist groups that attract vandalism, violations of the WP:BLPbiographieis of living persons]] policy, edit warring or other kinds of disruption, don't hesitate from nominating them for protection. I'll take a look through the category and see if there are articles there with problems and consider applying protection to them, but I'm not sure I'll have time to go through all of them as I'm visiting my family over the Christmas break. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:02, 22 December 2014 (UTC)