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Wikidata weekly summary #222
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
- Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
- History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
- ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
- You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status
Structures in London on Histropedia - The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
- Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
- New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
- UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
- Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
- Development
- mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
- Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
- Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
- Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
- Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
- Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
- Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
- Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
- Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
- Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
- 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!
- 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
The Signpost: 18 August 2016
- News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
- Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
- In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
- Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
- Traffic report: Olympic views
- Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
- Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
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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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [1]
The normandccnormfunctions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [2]- The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [3]
Problems
- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [4]
- When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [5]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [6][7]
- How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [8]
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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #223
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
- Closed request for comments:
- Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
- Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
- Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
- Refining "part of"
- Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Wikidata:Notability overhaul
- RfP voting eligibility
- Standards for property proposal discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
- August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
- Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
- All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
- Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
- Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
- COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
- Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
- WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
- Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
- Did you know?
Popular surnames among humans - Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
- Query examples:
- A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
- Common occupations of heads of state (source).
- Murderers by region in France (source).
- Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
- Popular surnames among humans (source).
- Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
- Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
- Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
- Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
- Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
- Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
- Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
- New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
- Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
- Development
- Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
- Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
- Menus are now internationalised on the query service
- Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
- Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
- Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
- Worked on the interface stability policy
- Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
- Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
- 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!
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #224
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
- Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
- Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
- GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
- Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
- Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
- WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
- The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
- enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
- Query examples:
- RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
- Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
- Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
- Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
- 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
- All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
- Drug-disease interactions (source)
- Nicknames of serial killers (source)
- Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
- Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
- Network of color (source)
- Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
- Newest gadgets:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
- Newest database reports:
- New feature/gadget requests:
- Showcase items:
- Development
- Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
- We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
- Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
- The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
- Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
- Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
- Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)
- 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!
- 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
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [9]
- When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing
Tabin the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. PressingShiftandTabin the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [10]
Changes this week
- The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [11][12]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:02, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Books & Bytes - Issue 18
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads
- New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
- Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
- TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
- OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution
The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #225
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
- What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
- 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
- Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
- Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
- 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
- Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
- Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
- Query examples:
- People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
- The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
- Things named after Polish people (source)
- Drama schools by number of students (source)
- Average gestation period of genera (source)
- Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic
- Development
- RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
- Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
- Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
- Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
- Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
- We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
- Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- 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
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
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [13]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [14]
- When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [15]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [16][17] - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [18][19]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [20]
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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 September 2016
- Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
- WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
- Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
- Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
- Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
- Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
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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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [21]
<maplink>and<mapframe>can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [22][23]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [24]
- A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [25][26]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
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Wikidata weekly summary #226
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
- Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
- Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
- How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
- #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
- Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
- How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
- Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
- Query examples:
- New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
- Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
- Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
- A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
- Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
- Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
- Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #227Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:21, 29 September 2016 (UTC) New newsletter for NotificationsHello You are subscribing to the Notifications newsletter on English Wikipedia. That newsletter is now replaced by the monthly and multilingual Collaboration team newsletter, which will include information and updates concerning Notifications but also concerning Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please subscribe! All the best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:51, 29 September 2016 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #229Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes this week
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Invite to the African DestubathonHi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. If you could help spread the word and publicize it too I'd be grateful. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:35, 6 October 2016 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #230Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 15:01, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #3—2016Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter • Subscribe or unsubscribe on the English Wikipedia  Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?  Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor. Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support. Recent changes
Future changesThe visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic. The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list. Let's work togetherDo you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC) The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Wikidata weekly summary #231Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata weekly summary #232Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline. Birthday events Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
Online A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens! You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page. If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.
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The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC) Invitation to Asian Women MonthHi there! As you may know, this November is Asian Women Month, hosted by Wikipedia Asian Month and WikiWomen In Red. Our goal is to encourage coverage of Asian women in order to help overcome the Asian content gender gap. Asian Women Month observes the rules of Wikipedia Asian Month. You will receive a special Asian Women Month barnstar if you create four articles in accordance with the rules for the event, as well as a postcard sent from an Asian community! Thanks for your consideration. Read more here! -Rimmel.Edits Talk 01:33, 4 November 2016 (UTC) The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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 Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present! Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 03:09, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Two-Factor Authentication now available for adminsHello, Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #235Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
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