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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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30 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Andhra Christian College (talk) Cleanup
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207 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Lipid raft (talk) Cleanup
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39 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C David Waddington, Baron Waddington (talk) Unencyclopaedic
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start BMS World Mission (talk) Unencyclopaedic
671 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Claude Lévi-Strauss (talk) Unencyclopaedic
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Cornbrash Formation (talk) Merge
138 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Mermaid Avenue (talk) Merge
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Greaves' Rules (talk) Merge
34 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Major Greenwood (talk) Wikify
22 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Selsdon Group (talk) Wikify
117 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: B History of the Conservative Party (UK) (talk) Wikify
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Margaret P. Moss (talk) Orphan
5 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Kinetic-segregation model of T cell activation (talk) Orphan
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2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start John Ellison-Macartney (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Weston Cracroft Amcotts (talk) Stub
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Lisburn (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (talk) Stub
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Wikidata weekly summary #301

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
    • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
    • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2018-09

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

  • Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [1]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [2][3]
  • Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [4]
  • Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [5][6][7]

Changes later this week

  • Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [8]
  • Advanced item The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [9][10]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  • United States Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  • Germany FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  • India Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  • United States Ceranthor, India Numerounovedant, Minnesota Carbrera, Netherlands Farang Rak Tham and Romania Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start William Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy (talk) Add sources
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18 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Lord John Cavendish (talk) Add sources
9 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet (talk) Add sources
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start James Heywood (philanthropist) (talk) Add sources
53 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Atherton, Queensland (talk) Cleanup
41 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick (talk) Cleanup
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154 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Cornerstone Group (talk) Expand
4 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Kendal (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub David Ainsworth (talk) Expand
79 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: GA Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (talk) Unencyclopaedic
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Mike Whitby (talk) Unencyclopaedic
97 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Structural anthropology (talk) Unencyclopaedic
72 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Unification of Nepal (talk) Merge
56 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Media in Ethiopia (talk) Merge
116 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Communal conflicts in Nigeria (talk) Merge
24 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere (talk) Wikify
50 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (talk) Wikify
11 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Dr Williams's Library (talk) Wikify
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Antonio Modesto Quirasco (talk) Orphan
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Babubhai Desai (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Aimirgein mac Amalgado (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Charles Stuart Parker (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub David Heron (statistician) (talk) Stub
11 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub John Duncombe (talk) Stub
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Robert Wodehouse (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Alfred Bateman (talk) Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #302

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
    • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
    • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
    • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
    • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

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Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

  • You can now make longer edit summaries. [11]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [12]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [13][14]
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [15]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: February 2018



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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018

Milestone for mix'n'match

Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
    • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


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Tech News: 2018-11

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

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [16]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [17]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [18]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [19]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [20]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [21]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [22][23]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [24][25][26]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

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