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overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A
WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (
more info)
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
Wikimedia projects use
Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use
WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
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There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can
read the documentation and
download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You can test a new
reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the
beta cluster. You can see
an example article.
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I would recommend in future, that you do not approach any veteran Wikipedian with such accusations of vandalism, as you did me. Not everyone is as patient as I.
GoodDay (
talk) 17:56, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Response to commenting editors
Hello, I noticed you made a comment about
GoodDay that did not seem civil. In some cases, it may be appropriate to notify the user about what they had done wrong. But just saying that the edit was vandalism when it was not can consider bad practice. Thank You.
NicholasHui (
talk) 23:35, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
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
The
Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an
API problem. It is now working again.
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Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.
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Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact
NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.
[6]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the
holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "
advanced mode".
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can use setlang in the
URL to change the
user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript is not working in your browser.
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The revised version of the very powerful
PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool:
Dwynwen, adapted from
Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
The pilot in command of an aircraft is the person aboard who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only one certificated and qualified pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.
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 later this week
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (
calendar).
Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.
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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old
TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to
downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the
browser recommendations.
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Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (
calendar).
Future changes
Deepcat and
Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead.
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You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.
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Upcoming: next
Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the
Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team
Tool of the week
The
Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see
discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at
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The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please
help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
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 later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (
calendar).
Future changes
There is a
new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can
give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python
library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support
Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can
get help to do so.
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The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss
in Phabricator if this affects you.
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You can
read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region located in northern
Tanzania, Africa. It spans approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi), and hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal
migration in the world. Pictured is a
leopard in a tree in the Serengeti.