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Wikidata weekly summary #170
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up
here.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at
d:Wikidata:Flow.
Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
@happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
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
MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
[1]
The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
[2]
You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
[3]
You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
[4]
It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
[5]
JavaScript authors:
You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can
see a list of pages to fix.
[6][7]
You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can
see a list of pages to fix.
[8][9]
The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.
[10]
Problems
More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
[11]
Importing a
Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
[12]
Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.
[13]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (
calendar).
UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
[14]
You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.
[15]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
Some things in the watchlist will get a new look.
[16]
You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases?
Try relabel!
SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack
d:Property:P570 (date of death).
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
Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
[17][18][19]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to
the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.
[20]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
[21][22]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.
[23]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (
calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.
[24]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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Hot women. Since you had some involvement with the Hot women redirect, you might want to participate in
the redirect discussion if you have not already done so.
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talk) 20:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect
Hot men. Since you had some involvement with the Hot men redirect, you might want to participate in
the redirect discussion if you have not already done so.
Mr. Guye (
talk) 20:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)