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Wikidata weekly summary #227
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
 * New request for comments: Merging male and female labels


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
 * Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
 * Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
 * Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
 * Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
 * #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
 * The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
 * You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
 * There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
 * You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
 * How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Embassies%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20as%20%3Fcountry%29%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcity_label%29%20as%20%3Fcity%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Faddress%29%20as%20%3Faddress%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20as%20%3Fcoordinates%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Foperator_label%29%20as%20%3Foperator%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fphone%29%20as%20%3Fphone%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Femail%29%20as%20%3Femail%29%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fwebsite%29%20as%20%3Fwebsite%29%0A%09%28SAMPLE%28%3Ffacebook%29%20as%20%3Ffacebook%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Ftwitter%29%20as%20%3Ftwitter%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20as%20%3Fimage%29%20%20%20%20%20%3Fwikidata%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%09%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3917681.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%2a%2Fwdt%3AP17%20%3FcountryId.%20%3FcountryId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP131%20%3FcityId.%20%3FcityId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcity_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcity_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%7D%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP137%20%3FoperatorId.%20%3FoperatorId%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Foperator_label.%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Foperator_label%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Fphone.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP968%20%3Femail.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fwebsite.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2013%20%3Ffacebook.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP2002%20%3Ftwitter.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fwikidata%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cru%2Cde%2Cfr%2Ces%22%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fwikidata%20%3FwikidataLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3Fcountry%29%20ASC%28%3Fcity%29%20ASC%28%3Foperator%29 Embassies] (source)
 * World map of water towers (source)
 * "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
 * Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
 * Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
 * Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
 * Newest database reports: list of embassies


 * Development
 * We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
 * The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:05, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38
 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
 * Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC and 16 September 12:50 UTC.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is multi-content revisions. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan.

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Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28
Please join us in downtown San Francisco!



Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.



Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official deadline is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.



Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

See you soon! ,, and  | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:34, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to 	 Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
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Tech News: 2016-39
 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
 * If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it.
 * When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions.
 * Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on September 27 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on.

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Wikidata weekly summary #228
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) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: WikiCon 2016
 * Past: OASPA conference (slides)
 * Past: State of the Map
 * Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
 * Upcoming: SMWCon
 * Upcoming: office hour on IRC
 * Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
 * HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
 * TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
 * Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
 * Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
 * Development
 * mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (T137808)
 * Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (T145516, T146030, T146274)
 * More work on usage tracking UI (T145965, T143148, T145189, T144923)
 * RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (E273)
 * Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (T105100)
 * Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (T117032)
 * Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (T144303)
 * Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (T146356)
 * Expanding references again in diffs (T129836)
 * Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (T142203)
 * Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (T119492)
 * Worked on improving the query service documentation (T133052)
 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

The Signpost: 29 September 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #229
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
 * Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
 * Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
 * Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
 * The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
 * Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
 * Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
 * Log of our last office hour discussion
 * The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
 * You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN


 * Query examples:
 * Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
 * Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
 * Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
 * trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
 * Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
 * Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)


 * Development
 * Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
 * Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (T145412)
 * Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (T144687)
 * Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (T146318)
 * Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (T144037).
 * Made it possible to use the  and   protocols in URL data types (T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-40
 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.


 * will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use  instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible.

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Wikidata weekly summary #230
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
 * Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
 * Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
 * A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
 * The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
 * People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
 * Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
 * Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
 * 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
 * Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
 * chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
 * PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature


 * Query examples:
 * Chemistry Nobel prizes through time (source)
 * Former countries without continent (P30) (source)
 * Rivers without any mouth specified (source)
 * Interesting items near you (source)
 * Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
 * Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented


 * Development
 * The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (T146271)
 * More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987)
 * More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (T76007)
 * Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (T144921)
 * Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * 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!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

<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; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:13, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41
<section begin="technews-2016-W41"/> 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 show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using . You can now use tag filters by using.
 * The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
 * Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.

Changes this week
 * Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W41"/> 20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Cesar Ascarrunz for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cesar Ascarrunz is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Cesar Ascarrunz until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Dolotta (talk) 01:42, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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A kitten for you!
So glad to hear from you. Thank you so much for sending postcard. Looking forward to see you again, hopefully at an aerospace museum.

DreamLiner ''' Talk 14:52, 12 October 2016 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * The postcard was delivered yesterday and my friends love it. For some reason mine is still on the way, may deliver by tomorrow. Thx again for ur help.-- DreamLiner ''' Talk 00:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)