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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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Tech News: 2016-04

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

Tuoreet muutokset

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [1][2]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [3]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [5]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [6]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [7]

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25. tammikuuta 2016 kello 18.38 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [8] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [9] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Replicator: Wikidata import tool
  • The Facebook of German Playwrights
  • Language usage on Wikidata
  • Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
  • Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
  • some visualizations:
    • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
    • Doctoral students of Gauss
    • Tributaries of the Danube
    • Children of Kronos
    • Influenced by Leibnitz
    • Graphs
    • Zika virus papers
  • KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
  • Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
  • Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
  • WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
  • Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
  • Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
  • Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
  • New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
• Development
  • und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
  • Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
  • Final touches on making search work on mobile
  • Finishing identifier datatype and section
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2016-05

Wikimedia-yhteisön uusimmat tech-uutiset. Toivomme sinun jakavan tietoa näistä muutoksista yhteisössäsi. Uutiset on käännetty toisille kielille.

Ongelmat

• Sivustot wikimedia.org-osoitteessa ohjattiin vahingossa Wikimedia Foundation wikiin 26. tammikuuta. Tämä sisälsi Metan ja Wikimedia Commonsin. Vahinko korjattiin tunnin päästä. [10]
• Joillakin käyttäjillä oli ongelmia sisään ja uloskirjautumisessa 22. tammikuuta. Boteilla oli myös ongelmia sekä esikatselu ei toiminut kunnolla. Tämä johtui ongelmista liittyen uuteen SessionManager-komponenttiin. Se kumottiin 23. tammikuuta. [11][12]
• SessionManagerin uusien ongelmien vuoksi viimeisin MediaWikin versio poistettiin Wikimedia-wikeistä uudelleen 31. tammikuuta. Uusi versio tällä viikolla tulee ilman SessionManageria. [13]

Muutokset tällä viikolla

• Sivun historia -sivulle tulee ohjelinkki. Se ohjaa oletuksena Metan sivulle Help:Page history. Wikit voivat vaihtaa sen oman projektinsa linkiksi. [14]
• Ilmoitukset näyttävät vain osan sivun nimestä, jos nimi on liian pitkä. Saatavilla on myös toinen tapa merkitä ilmoitukset luetuiksi. [15][16]
• Universal Language Selectorin syöttötavat ovat nyt saatavissa visuaalisessa muokkaimessa. Tämä tarkoittaa sitä, että monet jotka kirjoittavat ei-latinalaisilla kirjaimilla, voivat nyt käyttää visuaalista muokkainta. [17]
• Visuaalinen muokkain tarjoaa enemmän työkaluja taulukoiden muokkaamiseen. Voit siirtää rivejä ja sarakkeita taulukossa ja kopioida osia tehdäksesi uusia. Voit myös kopioida ja liittää useammin kuin yhden solun kerrallaan. [18][19][20]
• Visuaalisessa muokkaimessa on uusi varoitusviesti, kun jätät sivun, jota olet muokkaamassa, etkä ole tallentanut. Ei-englanninkielisten wikien täytyy kääntää se. [21][22]
• MediaWikin uusi versio otetaan käyttöön testiwikeissä ja MediaWiki.orgissa 2. helmikuuta. Se otetaan käyttöön kaikissä ei-Wikipedia-wikeissä ja joissakin Wikipedioissa 3. helmikuuta. Se on käytössä kaikissa wikeissä 4. helmikuuta (kalenteri).

Tapaamiset

• Voit osallistua seuraavaan viikoittaiseen tapaamiseen VisualEditor-tiimin kanssa. Tapaamisten aikana voit kertoa kehittäjille tärkeistä ongelmista. Tapaaminen on 2. helmikuuta klo 20.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.
• Voit osallistua seuraavaan tapaamiseen Architecture committeen kanssa. Aiheena tällä viikolla on tarkkailulistan sivujen vanhentuminen. Tapaaminen on 3. helmikuuta klo 22.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.

Tulevia muutoksia

• Verkkotunnus rest.wikimedia.org suljetaan. Sen on suunniteltu tapahtuvan maaliskuussa. Sinun pitäisi käyttää sen sijaan koodia /api/rest_v1/ jokaisen yksittäisen projektin verkkotunnuksena. [23]

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1. helmikuuta 2016 kello 23.02 (EET)

Tech News: 2016-06

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

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [24]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [25]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [26]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [27][28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [29][30]
• Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [31][32][33]

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8. helmikuuta 2016 kello 20.58 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: HakanIST
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
  • Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
  • Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
  • How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
  • What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
  • We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
  • Andrew updated his maps
  • We crossed edit 300,000,000!
  • Graph example: matrices
  • Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
  • Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
• Development
  • Search now works on mobile
  • Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
  • Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
  • Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
  • Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
  • More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Help wanted
• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
• Traffic report: Bowled
• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue I, January 2016 Headlines Africa report: #OpenAfrica15 Argentina report: New Editing Challenges and Design the guidelines for cultural institutions Australia and New Zealand report: WiR at State Library of Queensland Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more France report: New year, new start Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Technische Sammlungen & Verkehrsmuseum Dresden Italy report: BEIC Library Project goes on, and Wikipedia for Press and Media Freedom in Europe Macedonia report: Wikipedia 15 Netherlands report: Wiki loves artists - We need your help; Two Wikipedia edit-a-thons Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Folk & Gobernantes de Chile Sweden report: New year, new projects UK report: Audio-describing London Landmarks, celebrating Wikipedia 15 Special story: Pre-production starts for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons tutorial videos Open Access report: Open Access stats; data citation, dino jaw, dozens of beetles Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

• In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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Tech News: 2016-07

Wikimedia-yhteisön uusimmat tech-uutiset. Toivomme sinun jakavan tietoa näistä muutoksista yhteisössäsi. Uutiset on käännetty toisille kielille.

Tuoreet muutokset

• Voit nyt muokata sivuja mobiilisivustolla ilman JavaScriptiä. [34]
• Math-laajennosta voi nyt käyttää kemian kaavojen kirjoittamiseen. [35]

Ongelmat

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [36][37]

Muutokset tällä viikolla

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [38][39]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [40]
• MediaWikin uusi versio otetaan käyttöön testiwikeissä ja MediaWiki.orgissa 16. helmikuuta. Se otetaan käyttöön kaikissä ei-Wikipedia-wikeissä ja joissakin Wikipedioissa 17. helmikuuta. Se on käytössä kaikissa wikeissä 18. helmikuuta (kalenteri).

Tapaamiset

• Voit osallistua seuraavaan viikoittaiseen tapaamiseen VisualEditor-tiimin kanssa. Tapaamisten aikana voit kertoa kehittäjille tärkeistä ongelmista. Tapaaminen on 16. helmikuuta klo 20.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.

Tulevia muutoksia

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [41]

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15. helmikuuta 2016 kello 18.16 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #196

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
  • Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
  • We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
  • WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
  • Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
  • WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
  • Autolist now supports SPARQL
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
  • A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
  • Hay created a new property browser
  • Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
• Development
  • Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
  • UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
  • Work on properly linking identifiers
  • Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
  • Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
  • Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
  • Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
  • Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
• Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
• Technology report: Tech news in brief
• Traffic report: Super Bowling

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Tech News: 2016-08

Wikimedia-yhteisön uusimmat tech-uutiset. Toivomme sinun jakavan tietoa näistä muutoksista yhteisössäsi. Uutiset on käännetty toisille kielille.

Tuoreet muutokset

• Phabricator has been upgraded. [42][43]

Ongelmat

• There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [44][45]

Muutokset tällä viikolla

• 23. helmikuuta jälkeen voit käyttää Wikidataa kieltenvälisiin linkkeihin Wikiopistossa. [46]

Tapaamiset

• Voit osallistua seuraavaan viikoittaiseen tapaamiseen VisualEditor-tiimin kanssa. Tapaamisten aikana voit kertoa kehittäjille tärkeistä ongelmista. Tapaaminen on 23. helmikuuta klo 20.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22. helmikuuta 2016 kello 20.22 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
  • Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
  • Timeline of Zika papers
  • A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
  • The museum map now works for all countries
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
  • Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
  • Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
  • Query example: natural numbers
• Development
  • The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
  • The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
  • Input needed on caching for the query service
  • Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
  • We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
  • Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
  • More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
  • Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
  • wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

• Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

• Technology report: Tech news in brief

• Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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VisualEditor News #1—2016

Lue tämä toisella kielellä • Monikielisen uutiskirjeen tilauslista

Tiesitkö?

Kokeneiden muokkaajien keskuudessa taulukon muokkaaminen on visuaalisen muokkaimen suosituimpia toimintoja.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

Voit lukea ja auttaa kääntämään käyttöoppaan, jossa on enemmän tietoa visuaalisen muokkaimen käyttämisestä.

Viimeisimmän uutiskirjeen jälkeen VisualEditor-tiimi on korjannut monia ongelmia. Heidän tehtävälistansa löytyy Phabricatorista. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Tuoreet muutokset

Voit vaihtaa wikitekstistä visuaaliseen muokkaimeen sen jälkeen, kun olet aloittanut muokkaamisen. Tämä toiminto on saatavilla lähes kaikille muokkaajille suurimmassa osassa wikeistä pois lukien Wikisanakirjat ja Wikiaineistot.

Monet paikalliset visuaalisen muokkaimen palautesivut on ohjattu sivulle mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Tulevat muutokset

Yksi muokkausvälilehti -projekti yhdistää "Muokkaa" ja "Muokkaa wikitekstiä" -välilehdet yhteen "Muokkaa"-välilehteen. Tämä on sama järjestelmä, jota on käytetty jo mobiiliversiossa. (T102398) Aluksi "Muokkaa"-välilehti aukeaa siinä muokkaustilassa, jota käytit viime kerralla. Viimeisin muokkaamisvalinta tallennetaan tilisi asetuksiin kirjautuneilla käyttäjillä, ja evästeenä uloskirjautuneilla käyttäjillä. Kirjautuneilla muokkaajilla on nämä valinnat sivun Special:Preferences Muokkaus-välilehdellä:

• Muista viimeksi käyttämäni muokkain,
• Käytä aina visuaalista muokkainta, jos mahdollista,
• Käytä aina wikitekstin muokkaustilaa, ja
• Näytä minulle molemmat muokkausvälilehdet. (Tämä on tila käyttäjille, jotka käyttävät nyt visuaalista muokkainta.)

Visuaalinen muokkain käyttää samaa hakukonetta kuin Special:Search haettaessa linkkejä ja tiedostoja. Tämän haun kirjoitusvirheiden havaitsemistoiminto paranee pian. Nämä muutokset näkyvät myös visuaalisessa muokkaimessa.

Visuaalinen muokkain tulee tarjolle kaikille käyttäjille suurimmassa osassa "vaiheen 6" Wikipedioissa seuraavien kuukausien aikana. Tämä koskee mm. seuraavia kieliä: japani, korea, urdu, farsi, arabia, tamil, marathi, malajalam, hindi, bengali, assami, thai, aramea.

Työskennellään yhdessä

• Kokeile yhden muokkausvälilehden uusinta versiota test2.wikipedia.orgissa. Sinun tulee ehkä palauttaa oletusasetukset (sivun test2wiki:Special:Preferences alaosassa) nähdäksesi nykyiset valinnat. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
• Osaatko kirjoittaa ja lukea koreaa, arabiaa, japania, indoarjalaisia kieliä tai han-merkkejä? Tuntuuko näillä kielillä kirjoittaminen luonnolliselta visuaalisella muokkaimella? Kieli-insinööri David Chan haluaa tietää. Katso ohjeet sivulta mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test, jos voit auttaa. Kirjoita kommenttisi ja kieli/kielet, joita testasit, sivulla mediawiki.org.
• Jos et lue tätä suosikkikielelläsi, auta meitä kääntämisessä! Liity kääntäjien postituslistalle tai ota yhteyttä suoraan, jotta voimme ilmoittaa sinulle, kun seuraava teksti on valmis käännettäväksi. Kiitos!

Elitre (WMF), 26. helmikuuta 2016 kello 21.21 (EET)

Tech News: 2016-09

Wikimedia-yhteisön uusimmat tech-uutiset. Toivomme sinun jakavan tietoa näistä muutoksista yhteisössäsi. Uutiset on käännetty toisille kielille.

Tuoreet muutokset

• Kaavio-laajennuksen ja Pageview API:n ansiosta meillä on nyt {{Graph:PageViews}}-mallineita, jotka voivat näyttää sivujen näyttökerrat kaikissa wikeissä mistä tahansa wikistä. Katso esimerkkejä.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [47][48]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [49][50]

Muutokset tällä viikolla

• Wikeissä, joissa visuaalinen muokkain on saatavilla yhdellä muokkausvälilehdellä, punaiset linkit saattavat avautua visuaalisessa muokkaimessa wikitekstin muokkaustilan sijaan, riippumatta asetuksista. [51]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [52]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [53]

Tapaamiset

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [54]
• Voit osallistua seuraavaan tapaamiseen VisualEditor-tiimin kanssa. Tapaamisten aikana voit kertoa kehittäjille tärkeistä ongelmista. Tapaaminen on 1. maaliskuuta klo 20.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.

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29. helmikuuta 2016 kello 22.12 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #198

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
  • Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
  • In search of French towns on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
  • Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
  • A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
  • Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
  • Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
  • The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
  • Query example: battles
• Development
  • Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
  • Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
  • More groundwork for Commons support
  • Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
  • More performance work
  • In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
  • More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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• Argentina: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
• Argentina and Mexico: First mentoring program between the Argentine and Mexican chapters
• Czech Republic: Czech education program turns professional with a new education manager
• Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate the seventh conference of WEP
• Nigeria: Wikipedia workshop for students of Fountain University
• Sverige: Teacher celebrated for excellent pedagogy with Wikipedia
• Taiwan: Taiwanese students use Spoken Wikipedia as their service learning
• Global: Education Program Historic Data Campaign
• Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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Tech News: 2016-10

Wikimedia-yhteisön uusimmat tech-uutiset. Toivomme sinun jakavan tietoa näistä muutoksista yhteisössäsi. Uutiset on käännetty toisille kielille.

Tuoreet muutokset

• Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [55]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [56]
• The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [57]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [58]
• Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [59]

Ongelmat

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [60]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [61]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [62]
• You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [63]
• Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [64]

Muutokset tällä viikolla

• Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [65]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
• Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [66]

Tapaamiset

• Voit osallistua seuraavaan tapaamiseen VisualEditor-tiimin kanssa. Tapaamisten aikana voit kertoa kehittäjille tärkeistä ongelmista. Tapaaminen on 8. maaliskuuta klo 20.00 (UTC). Katso miten voit liittyä.

Tulevia muutoksia

• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [67]
• The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [68]

Tech-uutiset on tech-lähettiläiden koostama ja niitä jakaa Global message delivery -botti • Osallistu • Käännä • Pyydä apua • Anna palautetta • Tilaa tai peru tilaus.

7. maaliskuuta 2016 kello 22.24 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
  • Statements per item
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
  • You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
  • Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
  • A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
  • Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
  • Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
• Development
  • Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
  • More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
  • Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
  • Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
  • Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

• Traffic report: Brawling

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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This Month in GLAM: February 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue II, February 2016 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Austria report: GLAM activities for libraries and archives in the DACH region Belgium report: Gender Redirect Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Open Belgium 2016 France report: Getting technical...! Germany report: 30 GLAM volunteers in museums and libraries Italy report: Four new Wikipedians in Residence, and Food! Macedonia report: Theatre actors of Macedonia Mexico report: Towards to our first Art and Feminism 2016 Netherlands report: Naturalis' Wikipedia project; Open Culture Data Spain report: Free pictures, classical music & libraries Sweden report: Maps, planes and metadata on artists UK report: Wales Report; Wikidata Tour Down Under; Museums Galleries Scotland report; Oxford USA report: One month, dozens of events: Black History Month, Art+Feminism and more Special story: Lightning talk overview of upcoming video series Open Access report: Gravitational wave detection; viral biomechanics, anglerfish, smart dining table Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes: A Wikipedia Library Newsletter Wikidata report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share
• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
• Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
• Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."
• Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
• Traffic report: All business like show business
• WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

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Tech News: 2016-11

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

Recent changes

• The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [69]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [70]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
• Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [71]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [72]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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14. maaliskuuta 2016 kello 20.37 (EET)

Wikidata weekly summary #200

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
  • Upcoming: digikult.se
  • Wikidata Tour Down-Under
  • Open culture session at Open Belgium
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
  • Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
  • ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
  • Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
  • There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
  • Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
  • iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
  • Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
  • A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
  • Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
• Development
  • We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

    

    Faster!!!

  • Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
  • Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
  • We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
  • Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
  • Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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