• Events/Press/Blogs
  • International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
  • Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
  • Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
  • Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
  • Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
  • The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:FIH player ID,seed dispersal,number of works,inflorescence,minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity,maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity,Eurovision Song Contest song ID,Ghetto Encyclopedia ID,category for value same as Wikidata,MOOMA artist ID,PhilPapers record,Serbia cadastral municipality ID,next higher rank,next lower rank,New Zealand Heritage List number,Serbia municipality ID,Eu-football.info player ID,CEV player ID,USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID,USCG Lighthouse ID,Commons maps category,public key fingerprint
  • Query examples:
    • Countries with similar populations (source)
    • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
    • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source andinspiration)
    • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
    • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Fashion

• Development
  • Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. Itis available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
  • SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
  • Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one ofthese.
  • Help develop the next summaryhere!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item
  • Helptranslate 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

Latesttech 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 now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget thediacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.[1]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.[2]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.[3]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user'sSpecial:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.[4]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.[5]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from theabuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log.[6]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (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 on7 March at 20:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Clarification

• The2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. TheAMF format will be available later.

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Latesttech 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

• You will be able to show references from<references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use<references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.[7][8]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 on14 March at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• Some oldweb browsers will not be able to useJavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.[9]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.[10][11]

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• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
  • Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
  • Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin?You can choose the next date!
  • Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
  • Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
  • Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look atthis useful collection of links byYMS
  • Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool byEnvlh
  • Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (byKnut)
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th:discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • WMF is hiringa program manager,a product manager anda community liaison to work onthe structured data project on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:pole position,MIMO instrument ID,openMLOL author ID,IPv4 range,Iditarod musher ID,SAHRA heritage site ID,DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID,average space complexity,best-case space complexity,worst-case space complexity,average performance,best-case performance,worst-case performance,Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID,KMDb documentary ID,Google Maps CID,Israel Football Association player ID,SSRN author ID,Wildflowers of Israel ID,World Rugby Sevens Series ID,number of subscribers,ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
    • Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
    • Awards received by more women than men (source)
    • Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
    • The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Natural arches around the globe (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:Board Games
  • Newest external tools:official first release of WikidataIntegrator

• Development
  • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test ithere (phab:T134643).
  • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
  • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
  • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
  • Finishing federation prototype.
  • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
  • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
  • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
  • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
  • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
  • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
  • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming:Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming:Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora:Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora:Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th:discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 posterLinking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:FFA ID,European Athletics ID,All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442,phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• TheSave page button now saysPublish page orPublish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.Publish page is when you save a new page andPublish changes when you edit an existing page.[12]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected toarchive.org or anothermirror. DMOZ has been removed from theRelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage.[13]
• You can see monthly page views when you click onPage information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.[14]
• TheLinter extension is now onsmaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.[15]
• TheMediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to useDebian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.[16]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, pleasereport it.[17]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcutCtrl+Shift+X on PCs orCmd+Shift+X on Macs.[18]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 on21 March at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th,16:00 UTC, on#wikimedia-office^connect
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr)Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes andexamples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:FI WarSampo army unit ID,KMRB film rating,FI WarSampo person ID,film script,volcano observatory,BoF person ID,Bivouac.com pass ID,Elle.fr person ID,Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID,Parks.it ID,YerelNET district ID,The Numbers movie ID,S2A3 Biographical Database ID,Mapa place ID,Tax-exempt heritage asset ID,TV Guide show ID,original film format,Launchpad.net project ID,INEGI municipality ID,Safsal coach ID,Safsal player ID,Star Wars Databank ID,autonomous system number,Bureau of Meteorology station ID,Flora of Israel plant ID,Dictionary of Sydney ID,IPv6 routing prefix,rate of fire,Art Renewal Center ID,AnimeCons.com ID,Telegram username,BNA author ID,danskefilm silent film ID,danskefilm person ID,danskefilm film ID,CiteSeerX ID,Christie's work ID,Artnet artist ID,has active ingredient,active ingredient in,negative allosteric modulator of,positive allosteric modulator of,antisense inhibitor of,inhibitor of,disrupting agent for,blocker of,antagonist of,agonist of,activator of,PeakFinder ID,It's Rugby ID,Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports:film scripts
  • Showcase items:Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
  • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
  • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
  • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
  • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech 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 see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.[19]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.[20][21]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwikion March 28. Other wikis will get itprogressively. The new filters includefiltering,highlighting and, on certain wikis,user intent prediction.
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th,16:00 UTC, on#wikimedia-office^connect
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk:Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster:Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stuppet al.
    • Poster:Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeesteret al.
  • Five years ago,the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention:Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation:Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of theirSongkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest arein Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:located in present-day administrative territorial entity,Human Phenotype Ontology ID,slope rating,Tab4u artist ID,Tab4u song ID,United States Public Law,Pinterest username,Mendeley person ID,RTC film rating,diaspora,Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID,object has role,CueTracker player ID,Publons author ID,wears,JSTOR topic ID,Welsh Rugby Union player ID,United States Statutes at Large citation,VTJ-PRT building ID,Ethnologue language status,rules for classification,Bangla Movie Database ID,Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns,source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command:wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function:remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function:simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria:sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter:Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries asWikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending toWikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• TheSave page button now saysPublish page orPublish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.Publish page is when you save a new page andPublish changes when you edit an existing page.[22]
• The tracking categoryCategory:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.[23]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki acookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a newIP address the cookie will block them again.[24]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.[25]

Changes this week

• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 on4 April at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on5 April at 16:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters includefiltering,highlighting anduser intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikiswill get it later.[26]

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:Zolo
  • New request for comments:Proposed client side disambiguation page

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
  • Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
  • Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline forsubmitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania istoday, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
  • There's now also a#100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named#100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
  • New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
  • Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
  • New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
  • You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
  • Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
  • Help us translating this short message in your language

• Did you know?
• Newestproperties:TV Guide person ID,Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID,DLV athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable integers
    • Longest streets of Moscow
    • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
    • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
    • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:Figure skating
  • Newest external tools:Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Newest database reports:list of duos

• Development
  • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
  • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
  • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitextwould cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now aParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You canread more about how you can use it.[27]

Changes this week

• Some olderweb browsers will not be able to useJavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.[28]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix theuser intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikiswill get it later.[29]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.[30]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 on11 April at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available onthe test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it andgive feedback.

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Latesttech 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 add?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personalCSS andJavaScript. Example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.[31]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks onSpecial:AutoblockList.[32]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from[[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, seehow to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.[33]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 on18 April at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You cansee the new prototype. You canleave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the featurecan give feedback.[34]
• From next week, user scripts using very olddeprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can seeexamples of how to upgrade scripts.[35][36]

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• Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
• "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

• Attention:Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
• More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
• You can now cheatStadt Fluss Land game witha query ;)
• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th:new datatype for geoshapes andCognate on Wiktionaries

• Newestproperties:type of reference,suicide rate,Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID,MyDramaList name ID,iTunes app ID,Wormbase Gene ID,Environment Ontology ID,route diagram,cinenacional.com person ID,Quebec municipalities geographical code,LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID,Soundtrack Collector ID,Rat Genome Database ID,FlyBase Gene ID,cinenacional.com movie ID,LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID,LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID,Irish Rugby Football Union ID,Open Library subject ID,DBC author ID
• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
• Newest external tools:Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
• Newest database reports:list of anthology films

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to aShowcase item.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
  • Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • Deployed on Monday, April 24th:new datatype for geoshapes andCognate on Wiktionaries

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:PictoRight ID-Droit de suite,observing time available,MetaboLights Compound ID,Swiss Federal Archives ID,Boijmans artist ID,KVAB member ID,number of perpetrators,History of Modern Biomedicine ID,Tilastopaja male athlete ID,Red Bull athlete ID,Tilastopaja female athlete ID,National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID,Caverphone,Cologne phonetics,Soundex,HappyCow restaurant ID,category for alumni of educational institution,Justia Patents company ID,Justia Patents inventor ID,daily patronage,patronage,tributary orientation,ZFIN gene ID,IAFD female-born performer ID,MyDramaList title ID,Israel Chess Federation player ID,LAWA waterbody ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
    • Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
    • Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
    • Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:Wikiproject Terrorism
  • New template:d:Template:Film festivals

• Development
  • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
  • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
  • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
  • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
  • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
  • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
  • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
  • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
  • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You canturn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.[37]
• Whenadministrators,bureaucrats andstewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time.Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You canread more about user groups.[38]

Problems

• Since thedata centre test last week thecontent translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.[39]

Changes this week

• TheGuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.[40]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. TheCognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You canread more about this.[41]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 on25 April at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

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Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Thecontent translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.[42]
• Scripts using very olddeprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can seeexamples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue2017/16.You need to addmw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or addmediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section inMediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.[43][44]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

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 on2 May at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki acookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a newIP address the cookie will block them again.[45]
• ThePublish changes,Show preview andShow changes buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with theOOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding&ooui=1 to the URL.[46]

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• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
  • Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
  • Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - bySongkick, about their data donation
  • Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - byThe History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention:Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
  • new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
  • Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
  • Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
  • Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service?Give us your feedbacks
  • Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID,contributed to published work,Répertoire national des associations identifier,IPA number order,UNESCO Thesaurus ID,Athletics Australia athlete ID,GuideStar Israel organization ID,MobyGames developer ID,newspaper format,STW Thesaurus for Economics ID,Bollywood Hungama ID,last words,Reprezentacija ID,LoJ peak ID,Ishim ID,GINCO ID,VIVC grape variety ID,column,had as last meal,ADAGP artist ID,CONICET person ID,Medium username
  • Query examples:
    • 15415 people who died in 2016
    • Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
    • Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
    • Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
    • A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
  • Newest database reports:list of newspapers by newspaper format

• Development
  • Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
  • Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
  • The newd:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
  • Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
  • Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
  • Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:Updating References for External Data

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Registration is open for theCeltic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
  • Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join theWikidata documentation sprint

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Vote in the board election (see alsoVoter guides and rationales
  • Sitelinks for the newDoteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can beadded
  • You can nowtrack the number of identifier properties for an item
  • We provide weekly a new type of database dumps:nt truthy dumps
  • Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
  • Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:light sector,Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent,Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID,contributed to published work
  • Query examples:
    • All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
    • Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
    • Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
  • Newest database reports:list of oldest lighthouses

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
  • Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
  • Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
  • Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn onHide categorization of pages in your watchlist preferences. You can turn offExpand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories fromSpecial:EditWatchlist/raw.[47]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered aCAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.[48]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now sayVisual editing andSource editing instead ofSwitch to visual editing andSwitch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.[49]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (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 on9 May at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.[50][51]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If-{ is used intransclusions orweb addresses it has to beescaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and%2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use-{ in a template:{{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to thepreprocessor and affects all wikis.[52][53]

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L&E Newsletter / Volume 4 / Issue 12 / May 2017
Learning Quarterly

MediaWiki message delivery (talk)20:52, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

• Discussions
  • Development input:Client editing prototype

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past:Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (seea video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
  • Upcoming:Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join theWikidata documentation sprint
  • Upcoming:WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin:June 7th in WikiBÄR
  • You can still register for theWikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
  • WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
  • TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
  • OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
  • TheOSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
  • Two language properties will be merged butthe discussion still needs to go on
  • Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
  • The constraint table has been updated

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:NLL player ID,Italian Senate ID,ALPG golfer ID,Stereo Ve Mono artist ID,BioRxiv ID,narrower external class,Juwra.com ID,MLL player ID,Directorio Grierson ID,RANM member ID,Old Bailey Proceedings ID,Tumblr ID,Bmx-results.com rider ID,Israel Antiquities Authority ID,OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID,ESTC citation number,named by,Reactome pathway ID,NFF person profile ID,Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID,face value,Cinema ID,Digital Valencian Library author ID,copyright owner,Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID,V&A item ID,MotoGP racer ID,eWRC-results.com athlete ID,USATF athlete ID,Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID,Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID,Diamond League athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
    • Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
    • Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)

• Development
  • More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
  • Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
  • Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
  • Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Help addingmissing statements to properties
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech 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 now useISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that haveenabled Citoid.[54]
• TheTwo Column Edit Conflict View is available as abeta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.[55]

Problems

• Themediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. YourSpecial:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try addingmw.loader.using('mediawiki.util').done(function(){ as the first line in the file and}); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the2017/18 issue.[56]

Changes this week

• TheRevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.[57]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.[58][59]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If-{ is used intransclusions orweb addresses it has to beescaped appropriately. You can use-<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and%2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to thepreprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now seethe full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might findfalse positives. You canread more about what to fix.[60][61]

Older unreported changes

• YourMeta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word__NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this.[62][63]

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Latesttech 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

• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a<div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitextparser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You canreport new problems you think are related to this.[64]

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:MisterSynergy,Queryzo,ChristianKl

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
  • Upcoming:Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
  • Current:WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Current:Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
  • Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
  • Paper:Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The extension RevisionSlideris now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
  • Check out someupdates about the WikidataCon
  • We reachedQ30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
  • An additional 10k article placeholderson Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:Unifrance person ID,Unifrance company ID,IECIC 2015 ID,Songkick venue ID,BVMC work ID,secretary general,Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID,PIM authority ID,PASE Domesday place,PASE Domesday person ID,channel number,signed form,CETS no.,final event,programming paradigm,Bridgeman artist ID,BDCYL authority ID,Clochers de France ID,Global Trade Item Number,Unifrance film ID,Base biographique AUTOR ID,NNL work ID
  • Query examples:
    • Websites but without an official website
  • Plants with associated emoji (source)
    • Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
    • HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
    • Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
    • Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Counter-Vandalism,WikiProject Documentation

• Development
  • Participating to theWikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
  • Helping improving the documentation for theproperty constraints, thebeginner documentation about Wikidata,how to install Wikibase
  • Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354,help update translations)
  • Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
  • Setting up aconstraints development/testing wiki
  • Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
  • Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:MisterSynergy,Queryzo,ChristianKl (all successful)
  • New request for comments:Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past:WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can checkon Twitter andthe video streams to see what happened
  • Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
  • Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Eurowings app uses Wikidata
  • Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7created aweb app.
  • Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:Filmweb.pl ID,racon signal,Vitaskrá ID,SSB urban settlement number,Austrian Textbook ID,EKATTE place ID,members have occupation,National Library Board Singapore ID,SHARE Catalogue author ID,Sequence Ontology ID,supports programming language,subreddit,sports league level,TA98 Latin term,Misjonsarkiv person ID,Unifrance person ID,Unifrance company ID,IECIC 2015 ID,Songkick venue ID,BVMC work ID,secretary general,nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID,PIM authority ID,PASE Domesday place,PASE Domesday person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
    • Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
    • Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
    • Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
  • NewestWikiProjects:WikiProject Zika Corpus
  • Newest external tools:Wikidata to CSV
  • Newest database reports:Roger Moore filmography

• Development
  • Attending WikiCite
  • Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
  • Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
  • Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals -proposals needing attention
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech 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 version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen.[65]

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 on30 May at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get anotification when they mention you. You cantest this on Beta Wikipedia. You canread more and give feedback on Meta.[66]

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Latesttech 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 see new files onSpecial:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.[67]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.[68]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.[69]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.[70]

Problems

• TheMediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.[71]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use thecompact language links will see languages they have in theirBabel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on inyour preferences.[72]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.[73]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.[74]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.[75]

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 on6 June at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• The2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can seea picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.[76][77]
• Wikimedia wikis useOCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative isElectron. You cantell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.[78]
• TheArchitecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on thedraft that describes the new committee.

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• Discussions
  • Open request for bureaucrat:Lymantria

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in theWikiBÄR local room
  • Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
  • Upcoming:Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop duringHackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
  • Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" byRod Page (Q7356570)
  • MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
  • Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends atDBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
  • Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:reviewed by,Hungarian NGO ID,PLU Code,Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID,Google Scholar paper ID,DNCI musical work ID,Cullum number,Pinakothek artist ID,ADW taxon ID,DFB datacenter player ID,danskefilm TV series ID,danskefilm animated film ID,dimension,USL player ID,The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession,Ustream username,SlideShare username,Vimeo username,Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID,Giphy username,Semantic Scholar author ID,Semantic Scholar paper ID,GDP (PPP),RKY national built heritage environment ID,Early Aviators people ID,DBS ID,overrules,Bavarikon ID,shield image,official Facebook page,WFD Ecological status,Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
  • Query examples:
    • Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
    • Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
    • Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
    • Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
    • Female given names ending in "o" (source)
  • Newest external tools:Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.),Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
  • Newest database reports:list of items with the property "has fruit type"

• Development
  • Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
  • Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
  • Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
  • Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
  • Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
  • Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
  • Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
  • Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
  • Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
  • More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
  • More work on statements (phab:T165480)
  • More work on constraints (phab:T167107)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

• From the editors:Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
  Inviting new writers, editors, and ideas

• News and notes:Global Elections
  WMF Board election results, and FDC elections begin

• Arbitration report:Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
  Two cases were closed from 19 February to 27 March.

• Op-ed:Wikipedia's lead sentence problem
  Lead sentence metadata is out of control and a serious impediment to readability

• Featured content:Three months in the land of the featured
  Eighty-eight articles, forty-three lists, five topics and twenty-two pictures were promoted

• In the media:Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
  Garfield is male, and other places Wikipedia made the news

• Recent research:Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
  ...but are they real?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment

• Technology report:Tech news catch-up
  Bots, scripts, tools, and changes from February to June 2017

• Traffic report:Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
  Two weeks of film dominance: Baahubali and the Academy Awards

• Discussions
  • Discussion:Convert UBERON ID to external-id

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
  • Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
  • The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
  • MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
    5. Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Thecall for submissions for theWikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
  • You can also apply for ascholarship for the WikidataCon
  • Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
  • Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
    • Announcement & guide

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:EspritBleu athlete ID,J.League manager ID,Sandbox-Geographic shape,SIMC place ID,Sandbox-Tabular data,therapeutic area,emulates,ESBL athlete ID,Rock.com.ar album ID,Rock.com.ar artist ID,Rock.com.ar biography ID,Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID,South Australian Heritage Register Database ID,field of view,Shironet song ID,Shironet artist ID,Mastodon address,reviewed by,Hungarian NGO ID,PLU Code,Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID,Google Scholar paper ID,DNCI work ID,Cullum number,Pinakothek artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
    • Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
    • Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
  • Newest external tools:matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
  • Newest database reports:new people gallery

• Development
  • Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
  • More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
  • Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
  • Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
  • Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
  • More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
  • Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
  • Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
  • Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
  • New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighterOOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.[79]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.[80]

Changes this week

• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on13 June at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on thetest wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.[81]
• Wikimedia wikis useOCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative isElectron. You cantell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.[82]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding&fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking atSpecial:Undelete.[83][84]

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• Discussions
  • New requests for comments:
    • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
    • Findagrave removed as a source for information

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
  • Upcoming:Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th,University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
  • Upcoming:Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channelwikimedia-office
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) atELAG 2017 conference in Athens
  • Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata atWikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.

• WikidataCon
  • Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
  • Let's build the program byproposing a project until July 31st
  • Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You canapply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have reached500,000,000 edits.
  • You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
  • Your feedback is still welcome onthe prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
  • beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata

• Did you know?
• Newestproperties:Zemereshet song ID,Zemereshet artist ID,identifier shared with,CONI athlete ID,CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID,COSR athlete ID,MOB athlete ID,COA athlete ID,Team USA athlete ID,ČOV athlete ID,LTOK athlete ID,COB athlete ID,Irish National Monument ID,FINESS medical facility ID,Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID,NZOC athlete ID,Norwegian List of Lights ID,Team Canada athlete ID,Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID,Academia.edu institutional ID,Ukrainian regulations base ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
    • Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
    • The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
    • Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
    • Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
  • Newest external tools:Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata

• Development
  • Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
  • Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
  • Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
  • More experimenting with the new front-end framework
  • Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40UTC. It has now been fixed.[85]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.[86]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.[87]
• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on20 June at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how theTemplateStyles extension works onBeta Labs.

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

• New and expanded research accounts
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
• Bytes in brief

Read the full newsletter

• News and notes:Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
  While the English Wikipedia community produces no new requests for adminhood in June, the Wikimedia Foundation makes changes to the Product and Technology departments.

• In the media:Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 ofDrama on the Hill
  The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.

• Op-ed:Facto Post: a fresh take
  Exploring sourcing issues in Wikimedia projects, a solution in Wikidata and fact mining, and a newsletter to continue the conversation.

• Featured content:Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
  22 featured articles, 17 featured lists, 7 featured pictures

• Traffic report:Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
  Summer blockbusters and sports, Trump and world events.

• Recent research:Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?
  A researcher applies Marxist critiques of political economy to investigate whether gamification, a culture of altruism, and other anti-corporatist influences on peer production can create a sustainable gift economy in a project like Wikipedia.

• Technology report:Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
  Search now can include sister projects; EpochFail

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Wikidata workshop inRennes, June 26th
  • Upcoming:Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channelwikimedia-office
  • Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
  • Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
  • ORCID Mania (in response to thiscall for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
  • I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
  • Resource discovery and Wikidata
  • Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
  • Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
  • ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
  • Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
  • New Wikidata Game:Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
  • OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
  • Nice graphics aboutWikidata andthe Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
  • New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed tomatch the catalogue
  • Some help needed tomap the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger andthe Glottolog catalogue

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID,MyAnimeList manga ID,MyAnimeList anime ID,MyAnimeList character ID,MyAnimeList people ID,HFC NPS unit ID,image captured with,Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID,number of houses,Theatres Trust Database ID,SKIP code,Pizmonet ID,WorldSBK.com racer identifier,Czech Monument Catalogue Number,FFN swimmer ID,Wikia wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
    • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
    • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
    • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
  • Newest external tools:VizQuery

• Development
  • Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
  • Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
  • More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
  • Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
  • Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
  • Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
  • Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
  • Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech 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 <inputbox> has a newsearchfilter parameter. You can add values likesearchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query.[88]

Changes this week

• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.[89]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on27 June at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on27 June at 13:00 UTC.[90]

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• Discussions
  • New request for comment:When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
  • Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
  • Upcoming:Wikidata and SPARQL workshop andCeltic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during theAfrica Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
  • A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
  • Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Jointhe Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
  • Sitelinks for the newKabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can beadded
  • We reachedQ31000000
  • a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
  • New Mix’n’match catalog:Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from theConnected Open Heritage in Wikidata
  • We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
  • The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
  • Platypus has started to learn Spanish
  • WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
  • WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
  • MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:parliamentary group,metrically compatible typeface,BVMC place id,MuseScore ID,RePEc institute ID,Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID,Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID,Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID,checksum,Irish Grid Reference,Biodiversity Repository ID,Global Terrorism Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
    • First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
    • Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
    • Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
    • Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
    • Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
    • Pictures of Pharaos (source)
    • Map of departemental archives in France (source)
  • Newest gadgets:Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
  • Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.[91]

Changes this week

• Very old and inactive unpublished translations in theContent Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replaceRCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the2017/07 issue.[92]

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• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming:Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
  • Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
  • Past:WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
  • A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team

• WikidataCon
  • Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, pleasefill the form before July 16th
  • Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have some realMeta data!
  • TheStrepHit team has submitted anofficial uplift proposal for theprimary sources tool
  • Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
  • Sitelinks for the newAtikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can beadded
  • Citation management toolZotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata viaQuickStatements. SeeWikidata:Zotero for details.
  • New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
  • One week afterQ31000000 we haveQ32000000

• Did you know?
  • Newestproperties:PalDat plant ID,openAIP ID,Ontario Heritage Act Register ID,NLS Geographic Names Place ID,NLS-FI Geographic Name ID,National Record of the Historic Environment ID,JewAge person ID,INSPIRE ID,ADK member ID,FRED time-series ID,danskfilmogtv person,danskefilm TV Christmas calendar,Crunchyroll ID,URN-NBN,Gedbas genealogy person ID,Framalibre ID,Finnish archaeological heritage ID,EGF rating,Carnegie Hall agent ID,assets under management,Atlas of Hillforts ID,dissertation submitted to
  • Query examples:
    • Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
    • 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
    • Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
    • Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
    • Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
  • Newest database reports:reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)

• Development
  • Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
  • Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
  • Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
  • Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647,Project chat)
  • Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752,help page)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals:all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to aShowcase item.
  • Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Helpwrite the next summary!

Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article.[93]

Changes this week

• Thenew version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on11 July at 19:00 (UTC). Seehow to join.

Future changes

• Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.[94]
• We willnot useTidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read thesimplified instructions for editors.