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Wikidata weekly summary #99

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about defining lists
  • Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
  • Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
  • Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
  • Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
  • Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
• Development
  • Made loading items a lot faster
  • Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
  • Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
  • Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
  • Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
  • Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
  • Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Pithovirus sibericum

Needs to go in to List of viruses. (Talk:List of viruses Crisp list is 404.)

All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 14:50, 4 March 2014 (UTC).

Thanks to User:RDBrown for adding this. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 20:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #100

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
  • Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
• Development
  • Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
  • More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
  • Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
  • Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
  • Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
  • test2.wiki.x.io and test.wiki.x.io now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
  • Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
  • Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
  • Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

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Makambako#Education

Needs a (very) little copyediting. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 19:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #101

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

• Discussions
  • Notability of items
  • Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
  • Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Happy Pi Day
  • paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
• Development
  • Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
  • Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
  • Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
  • Continued research for user interface redesign
  • Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
  • Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
  • Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
  • Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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AJS

Model	Year	Notes	Type	Photograph
AJS Stormer	1968–1974	Villiers Starmaker-derived 2-stroke engine. (Y4)250, 370 & 410	Scrambler
FB-AJS	1974–1982	Villiers Starmaker-derived 2-stroke engine. 250, 370 & 410	Moto-X & Trail
Cotton Cobra Replica	1991–2000	Villiers Starmaker-derived 2-stroke engine. 250	Scrambler
Cotton Telstar Replica	1992–1998	Villiers Starmaker-derived 2-stroke engine. 250	Classic Racer
Cotton Triumph Replica	1992–2000	Triumph 500 unit twin	Pre-65 Moto-X
AJS YX-R 125	2006–2008	4-stroke, air & oil-cooled single-cylinder, 4 valves	Trail
AJS CR3-125	2006–2008	4-stroke, air-cooled single-cylinder	Sports
AJS Regal Raptor DD50E	2002–current	50 cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled single-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor DD125E	since 2005	125 cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor DD125E-8 Silverhawk	2007–2008	125 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor Eos 125	since 2007	125 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor Eos 250	since 2008	250 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor DD250E-9B	2006–2008	250 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS NAC12	Since 2010	125 cc, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled, twin-cylinder	Naked
AJS Regal Raptor Daytona 125	since 2010	125 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Custom
AJS Regal Raptor Bobber 125	since 2010	125 cc, 4-stroke, water-cooled twin-cylinder	Old Skool Custom
AJS Eco1 (JS125-E)	2007–2008	125 cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled, single, OHC, with Balance Shaft	Roadster
AJS Eco2 (JS125-E)	since 2009	125 cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled, single, OHC, with Balance Shaft	Roadster
AJS JSM 125	since 2009	125 cc, 4-stroke, air-cooled, single, OHC, with Balance Shaft	Super Motard or Trail versions

This version corrects some formatting issues with the one in the article. All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 19:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC).
((Done))

Wikidata weekly summary #102

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

• Discussions
  • Wikiquote notability
  • Belongs to jurisdiction
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
  • Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
  • The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
  • Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
  • GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
• Development
  • Continued making the UI faster
  • Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
  • Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
  • Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
  • wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
  • Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
  • Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
  • Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
  • Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
  • Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

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• WikiProject report: We have history

• Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic

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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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

• Discussions
• Wikiquote notability
  • Discussion relating to DBpedia
  • Discussion over Wikidata data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
• Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
• Development
  • Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
  • Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
  • Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
  • Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
  • Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
  • Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
  • Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
  • Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
  • The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 19:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Once you've caught up(!), you might like to note Wikipedia:List of infoboxes and teh 'appendix', User:Underlying lk/Misc infoboxes. See also the last three or four weeks or so of TfD pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:06, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Тотал listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Тотал. Since you had some involvement with the Тотал redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Gorobay (talk) 16:24, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm MCaecilius. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Kumao Imoto, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. M. Caecilius (talk) 23:28, 31 March 2014 (UTC)