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Wikidata weekly summary #155

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Wikidata weekly summary #157

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Template:XXXX stations

You obviously don't know that these templates usually come in groups that may include {{XXXX lines}}, {{XXXX station}}, {{XXXX color}} and {{XXXX style}}. The ones you have nominated for deletion probably have related templates that should also be deleted. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

@Secondarywaltz: I know the templates are used in groups; I just didn't occur to me to nominate the rest of the templates in the groups as well. Thanks for reminding me though. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 06:41, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Sorry. I assumed, because you had ignored them, you were unaware of how they worked together. Thanks for the cleanup. Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #158

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Template:Infobox Taiwan station

Any idea what the Bopomofo in Template:Infobox Taiwan station/testcases (scroll to the bottom) is for? Alakzi (talk) 18:00, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

It appears they used to be used internally as part of a standard phraseology or somesuch, but were phased out at some point in the past - see zh:國音電報. I'm not sure if any part of the TRA section needs to be kept. Alakzi (talk) 20:51, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: Given that it seems to be no longer in use, it should probably be removed, especially given that there is also a numbered station code. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 08:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Quite so. Perhaps we could place the TRA "level" in |category=, and with "mileage" in |distance=, we've got everything covered. Alakzi (talk) 10:37, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: Sounds great. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 10:42, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I was about three-quarters in when I noticed I'd had a space before the line list's first item, but other than that, the replacement of it went smoothly. Alakzi (talk) 21:49, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #159

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Template:Infobox China station conversion

Hi Jc86035. Any idea what a "bus rotary" is? Check the values of |bus=. If you could also review my wrapper in the sandbox, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Alakzi (talk) 17:55, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps it means "bus loop"? Secondarywaltz (talk) 18:02, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
That would make sense. We should sort these out before substituting the infobox. Alakzi (talk) 19:23, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: I'm not really sure what "bus rotary" means, although the version of the bus services switch at {{Infobox Japan station}} suggests it means a route terminates at the bus stop. The wrapper is quite good, although I'm not sure if "Station"/「站」 should be kept in the title while it isn't kept in the title in most other places. I've also added the |operator2= header to {{Infobox station/sandbox2}} (it needs a little bit of fixing-up), but it's neither in the main {{Infobox station}} template nor in {{Infobox China station/sandbox}}. Jc86035 (talk | contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 09:41, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. |operator2= could be accommodated in |type= or |symbol= - or am I missing something? Also, I'm not quite sure what the |station_code= is - atonal Pinyin? Alakzi (talk) 10:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: That's what |station_code= seems to be; it should probably have tones added. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 10:14, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Are we ready to substitute this one? Alakzi (talk) 13:57, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: No, not yet. I haven't added all of the logos to {{Rail-interchange}} yet (since I'm adding them along with the {{China line}} links) but I can add all the logo symbols first if necessary. (Side note – the sandbox currently uses |symbol3=, which doesn't currently exist in the live version of {{Infobox station}}, but the sandbox of {{Infobox station}} has it since I converted it to use a module for the symbols. Could you help merge the sandbox code to the main template? Thanks.) Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 14:01, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
These icons have been causing quite a stir, so I think it would be better if you were to open an edit request and I let someone else do it. Alakzi (talk) 14:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Template deletion nomination

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You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

You say "legend3" is redundant to "Color box". I use this template to show football team colors. Color box is too large to use for this purpose. Delete Color box instead. First you have put "See TfD" notice before all legends, then someone has broken the collapsible feature of the collapsible box. My pages look terrible. Red_devil_41 (talk) 18:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

@Red devil 41: I've put the TfD notice in <noinclude> tags so that it doesn't display in transclusions. The collapsible tables not working seems to have been a server error; I experienced this as well and there's a thread at the village pump about it, but it looks like it's gone now. I'm not sure how {{Colorbox}} would be too large for your purposes, since the only visible differences of {{Legend3}} are that it's slightly thinner and that the text is too small. Can you give me an example of a page where replacement of {{Legend3}} with {{Colorbox}} or {{Color box}} would make it look worse? Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 04:28, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

For example; if legend3 is used:

00 Xxxxx 0000 Round 1 Team One    0 – 0    Team Two Xxxxxx Stadium, X City
Sunday, 00:00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx 00'
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Yellow card 00'		 Report 00' Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Yellow card 00' Xxxxx Xxxxxxx		 Referee: Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Or, if color box is used:

00 Xxxxx 0000 Round 1 Team One    0 – 0    Team Two Xxxxxx Stadium, X City
Sunday, 00:00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx 00'
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Yellow card 00'		 Report 00' Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Yellow card 00' Xxxxx Xxxxxxx		 Referee: Xxxxx Xxxxxx

In football boxes; national flags are used to indicate national football teams. For club teams however, team coat of arms are not allowed to use. Instead, I thought, team colors are relevant. Team colors are considered as inseparable parts of football teams. When "color box" is used, the result is something larger than flags. Although it was not in exact dimensions, "legend3" fits better.

Thank you for your reply and interest. have a good time. Red_devil_41 (talk) 21:02, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Module:Rail-interchange multi

Hi Jc. I'm wondering if you could explain the slightly odd interface of Module:Rail-interchange multi (slashes and pluses) - I assume this is to facilitate specifying multiple symbols for location X without having to repeat location X? I wonder if there's a way to make it less opaque. Alakzi (talk) 10:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: The reason it works like that is a legacy of Sameboat's sandbox module, which he suggested to me back in February would be useful for displaying multiple symbols in {{Infobox station}}. That module (which creates a table, like this one) uses newlines for the separator between each row, but since the implementation in {{Infobox station}} uses the #if parser function (which, as you probably know, would make the separator not work) I changed it to use plus signs. Since I don't really know how to write Lua code, improving it would best be left to someone who knows how to write Lua better than I can. (The current approach, however, has the advantages of (in doublerow) easily allowing the first symbol instead of the last to be in the middle if there is an odd number of symbols, and allowing more than one parameter to be passed through to {{rint}} through |symbol= of {{Infobox station}}.) Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 10:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
OK. This is only going to be used internally in {{Infobox station}}, correct? If so, we can revisit the interface if it ever becomes an issue. Honestly, I don't think that faux-tables are at all necessary here; the symbols could simply be divided by a linebreak. Alakzi (talk) 15:03, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

Screenshot showing the link tool's context menu


The link tool has been re-designed:

Screenshot of the link inspector


There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

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Wikidata weekly summary #161

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Vancouver SkyTrain stations

I don't know why you are adding symbols to Vancouver SkyTrain stations? Please show me where this exists in the real world. Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

@Secondarywaltz: I didn't add them originally; I just moved them from |type=, which is where Northwest put them, to the built-in symbol parameters. The logo appears to be displayed on station entrance signage. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 13:08, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Where? I don't see it in any pictures or on the website. Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:10, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
@Secondarywaltz: Some stations (Stadium–Chinatown) seem to have it, but the newer stations on the Canada Line (Broadway–City Hall) look like they don't. I don't think it's really necessary though (since |type= already has "SkyTrain station"); should it be removed? Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 13:17, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. I could not find it in widespread use. If a logo had been in station articles before then it could have been updated, but in this application I agree that it is probably just decorative and redundant. Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:21, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Wikidata weekly summary #162

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Singapore Train Distruptions

Since train distruptions in Singapore is common, is it okay to create a page for that. Just today, train service were already distrupted after a train fault. MarcusCheeKJ (talk) 05:29, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #163

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  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
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    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox television

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Wikidata weekly summary #164

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style

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Station layout templates

I just closed this discussion, so it would be great if you could help with replacing the templates. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:09, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Template:BS-map

Please don't forget to update the documentation. (Adding a new parameter is a significant change.) Useddenim (talk) 14:27, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #165

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Template editor

You're competent to be a template editor. Would you like to apply for the right? Is there anything that worries you? Alakzi (talk) 14:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: I'd be fine with applying for the right, but I don't meet criteria 5 yet and I'd need to avoid screw-ups like this. Also, I'm not really sure what I would be using it for, except maybe adding Module:Unsubst to protected templates and fixing infoboxes affected by the MediaWiki:Common.css edit which left-aligned all the row headers. Jc86035 (talk • contribs) Use {{re|Jc86035}} to reply to me 05:14, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #166

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Wikidata weekly summary #167

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Wikidata weekly summary #168

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Please comment on Talk:Interstellar probe

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Wikidata weekly summary #169

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VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Screenshot showing the special character tool, selected text, and the special character that will be inserted


Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

Screenshot showing the special character tool and the same text after the special character has been inserted


You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. 

In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.  

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

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  • The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

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