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Wikidata weekly summary #257
- 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 and Cognate on Wiktionaries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: 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:
- Newest WikiProjects: 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 a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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
- New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [1]
- When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards 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 can read more about user groups. [2]
Problems
- Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [3]
Changes this week
- The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [4]
- Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [5]
- The new 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 on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: [April 2017]
Volume 6 | Issue 3 | April 2017
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. Be sure to check out the full version, and past editions. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team!
In This Issue
The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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 content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [6]
- Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or addmediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [7][8]
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 at 14:00 (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 on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how 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 a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [9]
- The
Publish changes
,Show preview
andShow changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI 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. [10]
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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #258
- 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 - by Songkick, about their data donation
- Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The 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?
- Newest properties: 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:
- 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 new d: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 a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!