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Tech News: 2015-23
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error.
 * Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday.
 * Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
 * You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Wikidata weekly summary #161
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) 15:14, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
 * Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
 * New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
 * The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
 * Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
 * Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
 * Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
 * Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
 * Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
 * Connectivity statistics were updated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
 * Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
 * Development
 * Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
 * The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
 * Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
 * Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:  and.
 * Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
 * Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
 * Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
 * Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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Tech News: 2015-24
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar).
 * If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools.
 * When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool.
 * The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC).

Future changes
 * If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for  will change at the end of June.

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #162
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) 12:08, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata.
 * Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
 * Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
 * News about Wikidata FIST
 * Review of the big interwiki link migration
 * Timeline of Christopher Lee films
 * Wikidata map - 19 months on
 * A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ViziData has been improved significantly
 * Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
 * New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
 * Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
 * Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
 * Development
 * Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
 * More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
 * Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (T102148)
 * More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
 * More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
 * The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
 * Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
 * Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
 * Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
 * New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-25
 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
 * Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool.
 * Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it.
 * If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use anymore.

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #163
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) 11:34, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
 * Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
 * More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
 * Nice new manual for MixnMatch
 * The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
 * National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
 * Development
 * Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
 * Worked more on unit support
 * Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (T98471)
 * Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
 * The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
 * The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see T100813
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
 * Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
 * Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
 * Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
 * Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (T93534)
 * 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
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-26
 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
 * Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users.
 * You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser.

Problems
 * On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours.
 * On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons.
 * Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #164
<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="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) 18:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Ateliers Wikidata
 * Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
 * Reductionism
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
 * Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
 * Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
 * Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
 * Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
 * Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
 * Development
 * Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
 * Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
 * Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (T96298)
 * Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (T94588)
 * More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
 * Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (T103796)
 * Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
 * Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (T103489)
 * Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (T103603)
 * Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-27
<section begin="technews-2015-W27"/> 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
 * Long lines in code blocks now look better.
 * You can now see graphs in VisualEditor.
 * When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page.
 * The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile.
 * You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites.

Problems
 * JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
 * You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color.
 * When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them.
 * If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password.
 * Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for  doesn't work any more.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future
 * When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org.

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