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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
- Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
Last week's rollback is now documented. [1]
Problems
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [2]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).- It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [3]
- Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [4]
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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [5]
Future changes
- The current icon for Notifications "Meddelelser" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [6]
- Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [7]
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25. jul 2016, 21:54 (CEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #219
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
- Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
- Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
- Development
- Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
- We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
- When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
- Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
- Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #220
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Repository Fringe
- Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
- Upcoming: CCBWIKI
- Localités au fil de l'eau
- WDQ, obsolete?
- BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
- You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
- You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
- There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
- Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
- You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
- IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
- WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
- Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
- Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
- Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
- Development
- Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
- Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
- Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
- Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
- Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
- Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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
- A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [8]
- The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
- Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [9]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (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 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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