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Tech News: 2016-06
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages.
 * When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary.
 * Octicons-tools.svg RESTBase is now using  instead of.

Changes this week
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February.
 * Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type.

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Wikidata weekly summary #195
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) 21:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: HakanIST
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
 * Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
 * Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
 * How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
 * What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
 * We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
 * Andrew updated his maps
 * We crossed edit 300,000,000!
 * Graph example: matrices
 * Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
 * Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
 * Development
 * Search now works on mobile
 * Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
 * Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
 * Investigated further options for performance improvement (T125502)
 * Indexing labels in elastic properly (T125500)
 * More work on cleaning up language codes (T125063, T124757)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016
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English Democrats/Katherine Tonkiss
Hi; are you at liberty to shed more light on this edit? Did the author contact OTRS? I ask not least because it may cast doubt on other references. Cheers. Keri (talk) 10:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, that edit was made in response to an OTRS ticket from the author of the book in question. There were no other issues raised in said exchange and I don't believe she wants to get involved any further. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:01, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. I don't have that book to hand to check how it was interpreted, so I've asked the editor who originally used it as a source to comment. I don't want to cast aspersions, it just flags the area up in my mind. Keri (talk) 12:23, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07
 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 changes
 * You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript.
 * You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas.

Problems
 * A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it.

Changes this week
 * There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
 * Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta.

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Wikidata weekly summary #196
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) 09:56, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
 * Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
 * We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
 * WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
 * Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
 * WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
 * Autolist now supports SPARQL
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
 * A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
 * Hay created a new property browser
 * Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
 * Development
 * Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (T125822)
 * UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (T125391, T125503)
 * Work on properly linking identifiers
 * Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (T125063)
 * Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (T126349)
 * Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (T121395)
 * Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (T111173)
 * Made search work properly on mobile (T85368)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (T125636)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #196
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) 09:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
 * Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
 * We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
 * WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
 * Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
 * WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
 * Autolist now supports SPARQL
 * Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
 * A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
 * Hay created a new property browser
 * Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
 * Development
 * Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (T125822)
 * UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (T125391, T125503)
 * Work on properly linking identifiers
 * Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (T125063)
 * Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (T126349)
 * Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (T121395)
 * Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (T111173)
 * Made search work properly on mobile (T85368)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (T125636)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Books & Bytes - Issue 15
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Issue 15, December-January 2016 by, , , ,

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 * New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
 * # 1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
 * New branches and coordinators

Tech News: 2016-08
<section begin="technews-2016-W08"/> 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 changes
 * Phabricator has been upgraded.

Problems
 * There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time.

Changes this week
 * After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186

<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:23, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
 * Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
 * Timeline of Zika papers
 * A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
 * The museum map now works for all countries
 * Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
 * Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
 * Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
 * Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
 * Query example: natural numbers
 * Development
 * The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (T2708)
 * The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
 * Input needed on caching for the query service
 * Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
 * We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
 * Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (T127095)
 * More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
 * Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
 * wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.