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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
- Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [1]
- When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing
Tabin the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. PressingShiftandTabin the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [2]
Changes this week
- The name of the "Gem side" button will change. The button will say "Offentliggør side" when you create a new page. It will say "Offentliggør ændringer" when you change an existing page. [3][4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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29. aug 2016, 17:59 (CEST)
This Month in Education: [September 2016]
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- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
- Brazil: Brazilian Wikimedians interview editor of academic journal Wiki Studies
- Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
- Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate eighth WEP conference
- Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
- Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
- Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
- Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
- Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
- Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
- Turkey: Psychology students of Uludag University are very proud of contributing Turkish Wikipedia
- West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
- Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1. sep 2016, 15:00 (CEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #225
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
- What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
- 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
- Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
- Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
- 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
- Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
- Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
- Query examples:
- People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
- The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
- Things named after Polish people (source)
- Drama schools by number of students (source)
- Average gestation period of genera (source)
- Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic
- Development
- RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
- Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
- Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
- Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
- Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
- We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
- Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [5]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [6]
- When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [7]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [8][9] - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [10][11]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [12]
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