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Books & Bytes - Issue 17
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by
The Interior,
Ocaasi,
UY Scuti,
Sadads, and
Nikkimaria
- New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
- Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
- New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate)
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Wikidata weekly summary #214
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
- New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
- We are looking for people who work on list articles.
- You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
- Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
- Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
- First beta release of StrepHit
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
- Query examples: colors of chemical compounds ( source), map of braodway venues ( source), sculptures by Max Bill ( source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme ( source), works of art where the title is an alliteration ( source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service ( source)
- Development
- Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
- More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly ( phabricator:T134259)
- Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up ( phabricator:T138059)
- Improved display of query examples ( phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
- Improved database access ( phabricator:T137539)
- Fixed a but with the rank selector ( phabricator:T109583)
- Started concept work for automated list generation
- Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
- 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.
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
- Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [1]
Changes this week
- The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [2] [3]
- Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [4]
- When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [5]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is
develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on
22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
Harej ( talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
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
- The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [6]
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [7]
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [8]
Problems
- The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [9] [10]
Changes this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (
calendar).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [11]
Meetings
- 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
28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [12]
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [13]
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [14] [15] [16]
- From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected.
[17]
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [18]
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #215
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
- TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
- Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
- SQID now shows references ( example)
- INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
- PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
- Query examples: sandwich ingredients ( source), inventors killed by their own invention ( source), objects with most mass ( source), music genres ( source), number of jurisdictions by driving side ( source)
- Development
- The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
- You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites ( example)
- Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype ( phabricator:T134473)
- Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder ( phabricator:T138500)
- Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty ( phabricator:T115269)
- Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language ( phabricator:T138725)
- 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.
Editing News #2—2016
Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
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 fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. 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: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It 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 around September 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.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.
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!
17:18, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Windows 10
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Windows 10. Legobot ( talk) 04:25, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #216
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
- The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
- Wikidata auf der GPN
- Past: PSESHSF ( You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
- Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
- Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
- Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
- Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
- Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer ( source), largest cities per country ( source), longest river of each continent ( source), rivers in Antarctica ( source), continents ( source), and some other continents ( source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole ( source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items ( source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique ( source), music composers by birth place ( source), places of whorship ( source), teachers with most students ( source), buildings in more than one country ( source), sandwiches ( source), composers and their most-used tonality ( source), former capitals ( source), list of suicide attacks ( source), birthplaces of people named Antoine ( source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level ( source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
- Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
- Development
- More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
- Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! ( phabricator:T89663)
- Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code ( phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
- Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
- Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment ( phabricator:T138974)
- Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation ( phabricator:T139284)
- 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.
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
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
- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [19]
Changes this week
- The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [20]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (
calendar).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia Writeathon at ISMB 2016
Hey Daniel! Are you at ISMB? There's a Wikipedia writeathon coming together on Monday night, which I figure you might be into. See you there? - Kieran ( talk) 18:42, 9 July 2016 (UTC) Hi Kieran, thanks for the pointer. I am aware of the session but not attending ISMB this time. Shall be around remotely, though, so in case anything comes up where I could be helpful, please ping me here or on Wikidata. -- Daniel Mietchen ( talk) 05:06, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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
- A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [21] [22] [23]
- Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [24] [25] [26]
- Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [27] [28] [29]
Problems
- On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [30]
- Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (
calendar).
Meetings
- 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
12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #217
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
- Past: office hour on IRC ( log)
- Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
- Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
- Upcoming: OpenSym
- Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
- Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
- Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
- TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
- Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
- Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
- There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
- Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
- Query examples: timeline of space probes ( source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites ( source), places in America named after places in England ( source), emergency number by country size ( source)
- Development
- Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
- Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) ( phabricator:T107595)
- Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
- Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages ( phabricator:T139509)
- Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T137115)
- Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger ( phabricator:T133973)
- Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile ( phabricator:T138413)
- Disabled PDF export in item and property pages ( phabricator:T136814)
- Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set ( phabricator:T115270)
- 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.
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