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The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
- Traffic report: Purple
- Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks
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 now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [1]
Problems
- There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [2]
Changes this week
- You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [4]
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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:YouTube
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Please comment on Talk:Area of a disk
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Please comment on Talk:Jean Lapierre
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Jean Lapierre. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Not done, Not really related to Science. Davidbuddy9 Talk 20:28, 9 May 2016 (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
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [5]
- You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [6]
- Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [7][8]
- You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [9]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [10]
- The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [11]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [12]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [13]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (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 May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).
Future changes
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [15]
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23:23, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
- Cannot wait for that category sorting to be fixed! Davidbuddy9 Talk 00:28, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Second law of thermodynamics
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- Not done Davidbuddy9 Talk 20:33, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy
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- Not done. Davidbuddy9 Talk 21:43, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Eidetic memory
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Later when more users comment on this issue, then I will decide if I step in or not. Davidbuddy9 Talk 21:55, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
- Not done The requester wants input mainly from WP:WikiProject Psychology and WP:Biology. Davidbuddy9 Talk 02:39, 16 May 2016 (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
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [16]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [17]
Changes this week
- Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [18]
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [19]
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [20]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Using self-closing tags like
<div/>and<span/>to mean<div></div>and<span></span>will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as<div>and<span>instead. This is normal in HTML5. [21]
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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
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 now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [22]
Problems
- Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [23]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [24]
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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:World Wide Web
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No comment Davidbuddy9 Talk 22:54, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine
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- No comment, not into Medicines enough to constructively contribute. Davidbuddy9 Talk 04:39, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Nomination of List of Kepler exoplanet candidates by ESI for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Kepler exoplanet candidates by ESI is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Kepler exoplanet candidates by ESI (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. jps (talk) 22:58, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Microbiology
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Microbiology. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
- Not done Davidbuddy9 Talk 21:11, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 May 2016
- News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
- Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
- Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
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
- There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [25]
Problems
- A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [26][27]
- CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [28]
Changes this week
- When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [29]
- The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [30]
- A change to the
<charinsert>feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [31][32] - Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [33]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #211
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
- Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
- Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
- Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
- Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
- Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
- Development
- Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
- More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
- Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
- Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
- 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.
Please comment on Talk:Giraffe
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Done, see WP:NAD. Davidbuddy9 Talk 04:36, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Garden of Eden (cellular automaton)
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- Not done Davidbuddy9 Talk 05:27, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Smartbond
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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- Not done Davidbuddy9 Talk 20:14, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Lists
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Lists. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
- Not done Davidbuddy9 Talk 04:27, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 June 2016
- News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
- Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
- Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
- Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
Wikidata weekly summary #212
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: OpenData.ch
- Upcoming: HackHPI
- Upcoming: ELAG
- Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
- Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
- wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
- It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
- Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
- Development
- Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
- Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
- Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
- Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
- Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
- Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
- More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
- Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
- 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.
Please comment on Talk:Isaac Barrow
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- Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 16:55, 6 June 2016 (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
Changes this week
- The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [36]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)