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Tech News: 2013-40
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
 * Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
 * There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices.

VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools.
 * Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste.
 * You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop").
 * You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

Future
 * Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas.
 * Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users.
 * You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3.
 * You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

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Wikidata weekly summary #78
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 23:08, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
 * Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * UK Wikidata training
 * Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
 * Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
 * Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
 * Wikidata Query updates
 * Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
 * Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
 * Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
 * Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
 * We've crossed ID 15000000: Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
 * Development
 * Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
 * Continued work on numbers data type
 * Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
 * Fixed RDF serialization issue
 * Merged merge API module
 * Finished up database schema updating code
 * Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
 * Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
 * Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Some cleanup of EntityView
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
 * I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #79
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 17:26, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * [//blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/wikidata-sends-goodies/ Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers]
 * [//ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html A Wikidata interview with Lydia]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
 * Help the development team prioritise!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
 * Development
 * Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
 * Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
 * Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
 * Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
 * Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
 * Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
 * Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
 * Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
 * Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
 * Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
 * MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
 * Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

Wikidata weekly summary #80
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 19:57, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
 * Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
 * Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
 * Newest task forces: International relations task force
 * Development
 * Further development on WikibaseDatabase
 * IE8 is working again
 * JSON socumentation created and merged
 * Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
 * Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
 * Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment".
 * Hack on one of these.

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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Tech News: 2013-42
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 choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like  for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
 * Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now create and edit references inside media captions.
 * You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content.
 * When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center.

Future
 * The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you.
 * MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
 * The interface to reset your password will soon be changed.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 09:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #81
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 22:51, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
 * Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
 * Closed:Place of property documentation
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
 * Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
 * Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
 * Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
 * Development
 * Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
 * Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (46538)
 * Bene worked on a table of content for items (44876)
 * Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (55466)
 * Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (54103)
 * Linked sitelinks in diffs (53471)
 * Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
 * Worked on the user interface for simple queries
 * Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
 * Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
 * 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.

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

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Tech News: 2013-43
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
 * The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it.

VisualEditor news
 * On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the   ,      and      spaces.

Problems
 * On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused  sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to   for a few hours.

Future
 * MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
 * In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us.
 * You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 09:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)