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Wikidata weekly summary #233

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

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [1]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [2]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [3]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd ( calendar).
  • Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template ( what's this?)" field when editing templates. [4]
  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [5]

Future changes

  • New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [6]

Miscellaneous

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Roger Waters: The Wall

I'm sorry to bother you about this but I can't find this information. In the concert film Roger Waters: The Wall, who is the man that Waters is driving with for a good part of the film? They're obviously old friends but do you know his name or any of his backstory? Thanks, † Dismas†| (talk) 02:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Peter Medak; see [7]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:33, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you! † Dismas†| (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Read the full newsletter



19:08, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Template:BBC programme

Hi, I'm not sure if you can help but I noticed since the template was changed to use Wikidata, the name of the programme, which should be in italic, is no longer in italic but is treated like it's an episode, while the site BBC Programmes is now in italic, when it shouldn't be. I thought I should ask you as it was edits you made that caused this change. Because this template is used for external links rather than citations, perhaps {{ cite web}} shouldn't be used. Thanks. anemone projectors 11:37, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

{{ Cite web}} also does not work with Template:Coronation Street character link, as character names are not titles. Please can you not use cite web where it does not work, and change any other affected templates? Thanks anemone projectors 11:37, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
I've changed the two templates I mentioned, and I believe they both still work correctly. All I did was remove cite web so they work in the same way as before, but I think they should still work with wikidata. anemone projectors 11:42, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #234

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Map of the birthday parties

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45

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

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [8]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [9]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [10]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [11]

Changes this week

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 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2016



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Wikidata weekly summary #235

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
    • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
  • Development
    • More work on federation ( phabricator:T76007)
    • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support ( phabricator:T148139)
    • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary ( phabricator:T987)
    • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
    • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
    • Analysed queries used with Listeria
    • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines ( phabricator:T117693)
    • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages ( phabricator:T124036)
    • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders ( phabricator:T113955)
    • Fix for bug that prevented editing ( phabricator:T150401)
    • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions ( phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:20, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Merging Infobox templates

Past attempts to merge the Infobox Single and Song templates might have been unsuccessful because the two had different fields. With the recent removal of the "cover versions" fields from Infobox songs, they are getting closer. Maybe with more streamlining and shared fields, a merger would be more likely. — Ojorojo ( talk) 17:41, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-46

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

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [16]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 ( calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [17]

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 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Light clay article

Thanks for adding a WikiProject classification to Light clay. However, although it has been used in antiquity, most people will know it as recently rediscovered natural eco-build material and as such I am not sure that archeology is the right category for it. I am not familiar with WikiProject ontology, so... could you review the classification and adjust it if appropriate? (btw, also saying hi -- we used to meet at OSM conferences, I hope you are well!) PeterEastern ( talk) 16:59, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

@ PeterEastern: I'm good thanks; I hope you are too. WikiProjects are not categories; you're welcome to add one for modern building too, if you know of one; I looked but could not see anything suitable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:11, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hello Pigsonthewing. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as mark pages as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

  • Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
  • You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
  • Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
  • Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. — MusikAnimal talk 20:00, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Andy, MusikAnimal just beat me to it at PERM. As I know you personally and am familiar with your outreach and user training, perhaps you could also be on the look out for people who have been accorded the user right but might be struggling a bit with their patrolling. We have a school here that needs trainers. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:47, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

List of public art

Andy, Ages ago you started lots of lists of public art in XXX. I've just returned to List of public art in Somerset to try to expand and improve it, but I'm still unsure of the scope - would war memorials eg Mells War Memorial be included? What about medieval church crosses?— Rod talk 13:43, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

@ Rodw: Discussed in part in comments at: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/public-art-wikipedia/ For war memorials, separate lists would be better. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:58, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
OK what about market crosses (which were once functional but may be retained as decorative/art) eg Yarn Market, Dunster or Market Cross, Cheddar?— Rod talk 16:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
@ Rodw: They might better in lists of "listed buildings and structures", unless they are carved with animals or suchlike, but there are no hard-ad-fast rules; use your best judgement. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:15, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #236

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels ( gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong ( phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder ( phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension ( phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions ( phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

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

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [19]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [20]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [21]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [22] [23] [24]

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 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [25]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [26]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Pigsonthewing. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Replacement of coordinates parameters in infoboxes

Hi, would you like to help out at Wikipedia:Coordinates in infoboxes? It's fine if you don't, but I'd like to take a wikibreak due to real-life commitments and currently there are only two other editors working on updating and fixing the infoboxes. Thanks, Jc86035 ( talk) Use {{ re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 14:07, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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