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Tech News: 2016-08

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• Phabricator has been upgraded. [1][2]

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Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
  • Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
  • Timeline of Zika papers
  • A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
  • The museum map now works for all countries
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
  • Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
  • Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
  • Query example: natural numbers
• Development
  • The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
  • The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
  • Input needed on caching for the query service
  • Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
  • We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
  • Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
  • More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
  • Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
  • wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
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		Red Dwarf spacecraft (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
		Stephen Harper (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
		Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (talk)						Merge
		Open source (talk)						Merge
		Ghanaian pound (talk)						Merge
		Kim Seung-woo (talk)						Wikify
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Geonotice

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Tech News: 2016-09

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

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [6][7]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [8][9]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [10]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [11]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [12]

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Wikidata weekly summary #198

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
  • Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
  • Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
  • A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
  • Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
  • Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
  • The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
  • Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
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  • Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
  • Query example: battles
• Development
  • Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
  • Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
  • More groundwork for Commons support
  • Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
  • More performance work
  • In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), and Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.

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		Ordination of women (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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		Inanna (talk)						Merge
		Business travel (talk)						Merge
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		John Bennet (judge) (talk)						Wikify
		79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Wikify
		Military discharge (talk)						Wikify
		Albert Knapp (talk)						Orphan
		Aleš Padělek (talk)						Orphan
		Alexander Anoprienko (talk)						Orphan
		Sir Thomas Skipwith, 4th Baronet (talk)						Stub
		Amulree, Ontario (talk)						Stub
		Mayor of Totnes (talk)						Stub
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Tech News: 2016-10

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

• Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [14]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [15]
• The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [16]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [17]
• Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [18]

Problems

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [19]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [20]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [21]
• You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [22]
• Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [23]

Changes this week

• Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [24]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
• Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [25]

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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [26]
• The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [27]

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Wikidata weekly summary #199

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
  • Statements per item
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
  • You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
  • Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
  • A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
  • Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
  • Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
• Development
  • Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
  • More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
  • Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
  • Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
  • Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
• Monthly Tasks
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UK MP links from Wikidata

I hope you'll be able to help me.

Template:UK MP links bundles up a whole load of external links for MPs. The links to Hansard (the 2006-present one on parliament.uk) are fixed at 2013-14 which is obviously wrong for the many MPs who left in 2010 or were newly elected in 2015. I attempted a version which included all years from 2006 which was knocked back for including too many bad links.

A first-cut of a wikidata based version is sitting in the sandbox. In order to add just the right number of Hansard links (or Hansard links for the 5 years of each parliament in which the MP sat) the obvious place to go is to use the work you've done at d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians which is complete for the 3 parliaments covered by parliament.uk's Hansard:

54th United Kingdom (2005-10) member of (P463):54th United Kingdom Parliament (Q21084471)

55th United Kingdom (2010-15) member of (P463):55th United Kingdom Parliament (Q21084472)

56th United Kingdom (2015-20) member of (P463):56th United Kingdom Parliament (Q21084473)

My problem is, I have no idea how to reach that deep into wikidata to get at the Parliaments of which an MP is a member. {{#property|P463}} gets me to "member of". How do I go that last step to get the parliament? Thanks, Bazj (talk) 08:45, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

@Bazj: Interesting project! Okay. So to be clear, what you're looking for is "display link syntax X if the MP was in the 2005-10 parliament, or Y if a member of the 2010-15 parliament, or Z if a member of the 2015-20 parliament, or any combination of the above"?

It feels like you might be able to do this with an if clause and Module:Wikidata, but I'm stalling on trying to figure out how to. I don't have much experience with writing data retrieval templates, sadly. Perhaps you could ask RexxS? He's pretty sharp on this kind of thing and might be able to figure out a solution. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:06, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, 5 links per condition, but yes: if member of (P463):54th United Kingdom Parliament (Q21084471) then 05-06, 06-07, 07-08, 08-09, 09-10 with the twist that 10-11 and 11-12 sessions are stored as 10-12(1) and 10-12(2) just to make sure it's not straightforward.

Module:Wikidata seems set up to enable say, Q(Nick Clegg) -> P(member of) from the wiki page of any arbitrary MP, but not that step deeper into the data of Q(Nick Clegg) -> P(member of) -> Q(2005-10).

I'm pretty convinced it'll need to be coded in a Lua module but none of the documentation I've managed to find explains how to dig around in the wikidata data model and retrieve deeper data.

RexxS, any help would be hugely appreciated. Bazj (talk) 22:32, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

There's a very useful utility in Module:Wikidata that allows you to see all the data in the linked Wikidata article, formatted in a JSON-like layout. Try pasting {{#invoke:Wikidata|Dump}} into a short section (like 'References') of an article like Nick Clegg, and preview it. Please don't save! You can Ctrl/Cmd-F to search for "P463" for example - you'll see that the first ["P463"]["mainsnak"]["datavalue"]["value"]["numeric-id"] has the value 21084471 and d:Q21084471 is "54th United Kingdom Parliament". The second and third ["mainsnak"]s belonging to ["P463"] point to the next two parliaments. That should give you a good idea of the structure needed to supply to the call ViewSomething. There's a similar discussion at Module talk:Wikidata#Help retrieving properties embedded as references. if you're happy to develop a call for yourself. Nevertheless, although I haven't looked in detail at what you're trying to do, I suspect you may want to use the result of asking for e.g. Nick Clegg's active parliaments as a link into the data for each of those parliaments. We can do that, because arbitrary access is enabled now, but it would mean writing some Lua specifically to do that job. I don't know if you feel confident doing that (using some of what I've written & documented in Module:Wikidata as a starting point), or whether you might prefer to make a specific request at Module Talk:Wikidata as there are other editors there who might be able to help as well. I'd be happy to look at it, but I need a fairly long uninterrupted session to write decent code, and that might not be available to me for a while. --RexxS (talk) 23:08, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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• The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [28]
• The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [29]

Changes this week

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WorldCat links via VIAF identifiers

Hello, I am not sure how much you know about Scribunto (I do not see any contributions from you in the Module namespace), but can you perhaps weigh in on Template talk:Authority control#Switch WorldCat links to using VIAF over LCCN. I ask based on: "[...]the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities[...]It will shortly be possible to link using VIAF values[...]" from 1 October 2012. Thank you. 15.65.244.12 (talk) 23:36, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

It looks like my changes were already deployed. Thanks anyway. 15.65.244.12 (talk) 00:36, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #200

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• Events/Blogs/Press
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• Did you know?
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• Development
  • We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

    

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  • Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
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Tech News: 2016-12

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• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
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Changes this week

• It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [33]
• You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [34]
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Wikidata weekly summary #202

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• MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [36] [37]

Problems

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Tech News: 2016-14

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. [41]
• Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [42]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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Wikidata weekly summary #203

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

• Events/Blogs/Press

  

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  • Upcoming: WWW 2016
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
    • Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
      • Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
      • Data imports including National Library of Israel
      • Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
      • Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
      • Improvements for Librarybase
      • Automated language links for Wiktionary
      • Cleanup of existing data import tools
    • partial group photo
  • Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata

    

    Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge

  • This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
  • If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
  • There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
  • There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
  • Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
  • PetScan now has item creator functionality.
  • The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
  • Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
  • Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
  • Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
• Development
  • 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
  • Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
  • The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
  • Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
• 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!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Tech News: 2016-15

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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [43][44]
• Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [45][46]
• ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [47]
• The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [48]

Problems

• There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [49]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
• The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [50]

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 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [51]

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20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #204

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

• Discussion
  • Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: digikult.se
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour
  • Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
  • A week of looking at women
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
  • Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
  • Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
  • Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
• Development
  • Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
  • Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
  • Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
  • Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
  • Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
  • More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
  • Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
  • Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
  • Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
• 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!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue III, March 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Asia report: Wikidata tour visits Jakarta Belgium report: Just For The Record: March France report: Zoology, feminism and contemporary art Germany report: Wiki loves librarians Greece report: Edit-a-thon in Athens Italy report: Biggest donation of photos from an Italian institution Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Riga Macedonia report: Editing competition about the villages in Aegean Macedonia Netherlands report: Open Culture Data Lab Republic of Srpska report: First GLAM project in the Republic of Srpska Serbia report: GLAMers opened their doors to Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: Libraries, free pictures and audios & new partners UK report: GLAM Marches on in the UK Open Access report: BartBotje; Rats as dino models; Auditory illusion; Crab-hunting octopus Wikipedia Library report: Hashtags, Campaigns and New Access donations Wikidata report: A really busy month all round Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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