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Wikidata weekly summary #157

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

This Month in GLAM: April 2015



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Bot

Hey, would you be able to code a bot for me? I'll explain more if you up for it. I know coding is hard but I don't think what I'm requesting is crazy. It has to do with maintaining a page for the GA Cup. Please let me know if you can help out. :) --Dom497 (talk) 23:31, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday June 10, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our next evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month will also feature on our agenda: recent and upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 16:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #158

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • 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, for the new properties listed above.

Consensus

Hello. I don't see a clear consensus here. Might you reconsider your close? --Epeefleche (talk) 17:14, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

Gantiadi move decision

Hi! Why have you moved the Gantiadi article even though there was no consensus? You haven't commented on the validity of the opposing arguments, that both names are equally (rarely) used and that nothing changed since the previous move request. Alæxis¿question? 11:28, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #160

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Asia/Oceania

Is there any discusssion anywhere in what you are doing to projects and their 'fit' into other projects? The issue of what fits into asia and oceania and the boundary has been a contentious one in the past, so if you didnt know or appreciate that, was curious as to why australia is not in oceania etc User:JarrahTree 23:48, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

JarrahTree: Not specifically regarding the categorization of Asia and Oceania projects. I tried to steer away from Oceania-related stuff, since it's loaded with ambiguity, but I may have forgotten to do so in some instances. In sorting Asia projects, I believe I only sorted things as Asia-related projects if there was no ambiguity. I am happy to have things sorted as both Asia and Oceania, or only one of the two, or neither, depending on what makes the most sense. My goal overall is to not have projects in parent categories when there are more specific sub-categories to sort them in. Harej (talk) 00:36, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
The way you emphasized I believe automatically made me think of jim carey. The thing about when asia and oceania were created as container 'projects' was that they were umbrella projects to be a central point under which any hair brained ideas could be 'contained' (projects for specific components - southeast asia for asia, by taking australia out of oceania you have sort of created a 'sense' problem - as the planet has umbrella projects of the 'continents' even when they werent, and now we have australia out of its umbrella project .... I am not happy with any playing on the oceania and asia border - as too often people take that ambiguity and run with it.. So here we are... I would strongly suggest re-inserting australia back into oceania. I would suggest we keep talking about the rest. if that is ok with you. User:JarrahTree 00:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
JarrahTree, I believe you are referring to this edit. I didn't remove it from the Oceania category because I (or others) don't consider Australia to be Oceania, but because it's already in the more precise Category:Australia-related WikiProjects, which in turn is in Category:Oceania WikiProjects. As all Australia projects are Oceania projects (or at least could be considered as such), it didn't make sense to redundantly categorize it. Does that clarify my edits? Harej (talk) 00:53, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
my sincerest apology - yup - my bad and ooops! thanks for taking the time to explain - must have a longer on or off wiki chat about projects some time - after 10 years of seeing people either dissavow of them (the radiator cleaners - they build up 100,000 k + edit histories playing with categories, and not once in their edit histories do they touch talk pages and projects - whereas the oil dip=stick checkers (project and talk page attention to detail) are few and far between - so few seem to understand to check both the water, and the oil... User:JarrahTree 01:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #161

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This Month in GLAM: May 2015



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Wikidata weekly summary #162

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?

  • A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
  • A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
  • New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
  • SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
  • Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.


Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

WP:MCB/S

Hi, Since you seem to know what your doing with CSS, I was wondering if you could have a quick look at the MCB WikiProject statistics page (WP:MCB/S). I'm struggling to get it to render sensibly on mobiles. If you've any advice I'd be interested to know how to get it to render better. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 09:54, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #163

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of http://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • 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, for the new properties listed above.

Co-op Pilot Results & Mentoring

Hey there! The Co-op has been on a hiatus for a bit, but we are planning on opening up shop again soon. When you're able, please read over and respond to this update on our talk page. We have favorable results from our final report regarding the pilot, and we are interested in seeing who is available to mentor when we reopen our space and begin to send out invites again. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for WikiProject directory

Thank you for your work with the WikiProject directory! I find the statistics very useful for comparisons.

However, the bot dropped WP:GLAM/Pritzker from the list when it ran last. I re-added GLAM/Pritzker to the list under Cultural partnership projects. Can you add us to the right place in the bot so this doesn't happen again? Thanks in advance! TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

TeriEmbrey, WikiProject listings on a directory are based on the categories they belong to. I've added the project to the Cultural Partnership WikiProjects category, ensuring that it will be in that directory section in future updates. Harej (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:13, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Bots


You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

What, exactly, is breaking? The "default continuation mode" for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. To find out whether your script or bot may be affected, then search the source code (including any frameworks or libraries) for the string "query-continue". If that is not present, then the script or bot is not affected. In a few cases, the code will be present but not used. In that case, the script or bot will continue working.

This change will be part of 1.26wmf12. It will be deployed to test wikis (including mediawiki.org) on 30 June, to non-Wikipedias (such as Wiktionary) on 1 July, and to all Wikipedias on 2 July 2015.

If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages ), it's time to fix your code!

Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.

Do you need help with your own bot or script? Ask questions in e-mail on the mediawiki-api or wikitech-l mailing lists. Volunteers at m:Tech or w:en:WP:Village pump (technical) or w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard may also be able to help you.

Are you using someone else's gadgets or user scripts? Most scripts are not affected. To find out if a script you use needs to be updated, then post a note at the discussion page for the gadget or the talk page of the user who originally made the script. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Whatamidoing (WMF), a question: is there a specific bot or script of mine that triggered this message, or is this a blanket warning to bot operators in general? Harej (talk) 22:27, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Yes, it's for you in particular (and this account), but unfortunately, nobody knows which script(s) caused the warnings in the logs. If you use NAVPOPS a lot (hundreds of times a day), then that alone could have caused it. Mr. Stradivarius has posted a search string at VPT that finds all the scripts that still contain the problem; you could use that to see whether any of yours are still at risk. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 07:27, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday July 8, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month will also feature on a review of past and upcoming editathons, including Black Lunch Table Editathon @ MoMA on July 13.

We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities.

After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street

Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 05:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Wikidata weekly summary #164

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Top Gear

I cannot message you but why did you stop editing to top gear 2002 series it had so problems on and my edits were undone Williamg209 (talk) 14:11, 29 June 2015‎ (UTC)

Hello Williamg209, I originally locked the Top Gear (2002 series) article because of excessive speculation over Jeremy Clarkson. Your edits were undone by Andromedabluesphere440, as seen here: [1]. Generally speaking, an assertion that someone has left the show should be backed up by a source saying so. Harej (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #165

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