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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
- The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [1][2][3]
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [4]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [5][6]
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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to remind you the importance of WP:BEFORE and accurate summaries for deletions. The rationale was "This seems to me to not be notable because I can't find discussion of it in the literature." but the source for Dual control (politics) clearly states " This was termed Dual Control (Anglo-French) over Egypt’s finances." It does seem like you didn't look all that hard to find that in the source. Additionally a simple google search would've shown [[7]] at Encyclopedia.com, [[8]] from Britannica.com, and there are many more examples. Mistakes happen and I'm sure there are plenty times you are spot on target just remember to do a couple searches first! Hell in a Bucket (talk) 02:18, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Hell in a Bucket:. Sorry about that, I should have found those. StudiesWorld (talk) 11:29, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
- Trust me I get it, I once tried to delete Belieber! I thought it was just some fanboy stuff from a non notable youtuber...boy was I wrong lol! Hell in a Bucket (talk) 12:30, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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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
- The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [9][10]
Problems
- Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [11]
Changes later this week
- You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [12]
- When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in
local storageinstead ofsession storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [13] - You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata
wb_termstable will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it. - Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [15]
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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 April 2019
- News and notes: An Action Packed April
- In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
- Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
- Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
- Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
- Technology report: A new special page, and other news
- Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
- News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
- Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
- From the archives: Portals revisited
Fireflies
[16] Ehm? © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 21:52, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- [17] I'm not reverting it, but how am I vandalizing? © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 22:16, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Tbhotch: Sorry, about that. I think that I misread the diff as being the reverse change. It was an accident. StudiesWorld (talk) 00:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.
Other notable performances were put in by 
Barkeep49 with six GAs, 
Ceranthor, 
Lee Vilenski, and 
Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 
MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Congratulations from WP:STiki!
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Congratulations, StudiesWorld! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 14:21, 2 May 2019 (UTC) |
- @West.andrew.g: Thanks for this! I first used your tool in 2015 and I recently got back into using it. For me, it has been one of the most helpful Wikipedia-related tools out there. StudiesWorld (talk) 18:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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May 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Эlcobbola talk 16:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Elcobbola: I apologize for the error. In general, I try to treat all edits equally. When I saw the edit in STiki, it appeared to me to be vandalism. When I saw the fact that it was by an experienced user, I reconsidered it and thought that more likely than not it was vandalism. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- And did nothing to act on that reconsideration. Per Wikipedia:STiki, the tool you used, vandalism is an edit "blatantly unconstructive and intentional in its malice." The tool is employed by humans, rather than bots, implicitly so that actual judgment may be used. Perhaps you should not subordinate judgment to haste going forward. Эlcobbola talk 16:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for your thoughts. I will try to do better in the future. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Shit happens. Learning experience and we all move on. Thank you for your contributions. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 02:57, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for your thoughts. I will try to do better in the future. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- And did nothing to act on that reconsideration. Per Wikipedia:STiki, the tool you used, vandalism is an edit "blatantly unconstructive and intentional in its malice." The tool is employed by humans, rather than bots, implicitly so that actual judgment may be used. Perhaps you should not subordinate judgment to haste going forward. Эlcobbola talk 16:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Graham Linehan
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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.
Problems
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [18]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).
Meetings
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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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Prep 5
Hi, thanks for helping out with the hook promotions at DYK. I'd just like to note a few details that we try to follow while building prep sets.
First, we look at the previous few image sets to see what kinds of images are running. The previous sets depicted person-nature-building-building. We are due for another person image now. Moreover, the image you chose is very dark and uninteresting at thumbnail size. Even though the nominator supplied it, we don't need to use it if it's not interesting. Additionally, the hook itself is not all that hooky either. Lead hooks and images really should be special.
The three middle hooks are all sports hooks. We try to aim for a balance in the set; one sports hook is enough. In that same spirit, you have a sports car crash, an airplane crash, and a hook talking about capital punishment. I admit it's not easy building sets, but with more practice you'll surely get the hang of it.
So... would you like me to move around some of these hooks to other sets? I'm already removing the image and moving that hook somewhere else. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer on my talk page. Best, Yoninah (talk) 18:44, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: - Thanks for the feedback. I'd appreciate if you could fix it. I'll take a look at how you change it and try to learn from it. I do want to get more involved in DYK and will try to do better in the future. StudiesWorld (talk) 22:34, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
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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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar).
Meetings
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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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“Cov Campus”
Would references from the original website of the newspaper count? - TheBullHorde
- @TheBullHorde: - Unfortunately not, we need to see independent, reliable sources. I don't think that at this time, the newspaper is notable. However, if it becomes notable, you should create an article. I hope that you will stay and create other articles though because there are many topics that need greater coverage. StudiesWorld (talk) 01:03, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019  The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM (text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
The review tool requires a log in on sciencesource.wmflabs.org, and an OAuth permission (bottom of a review page) to operate. It can be used in simple and more advanced workflows. Examples of queries for the latter are at d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource project/Queries#SS_disease_list and d:Wikidata_talk:ScienceSource_project/Queries#NDF-RT issue. Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
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NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello StudiesWorld,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
- Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
- Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
- Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
- Backlog drive coming soon
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- News
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
- Discussions of interest
- A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
- There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
- What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like
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Nancy Pelosi
I see you passed Nancy Pelosi without any response to my comment. Am I correct to assume you disagreed with all of it? Knope7 (talk) 13:52, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Knope7: - No, not at all. I agree that that is a major weak point of the article. However, I interpreted it as being in the gap between the "main aspects" requirement of GA and the "comprehensiveness" requirement of FA, especially given that those periods were relatively less notable periods of her life. I sincerely apologize for not responding to your comment on the GA page and before closing the review, as your comment most definitely was deserving of a reply. Do you think that this was significant enough to warrant failure or further revision prior to GA? StudiesWorld (talk) 14:02, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for the response. I know there is a wide spectrum for how the criteria is interpreted and I appreciate you explaining your thought process here. I agree main aspects should be something less than comprehensiveness, but to me skipping over so much time doesn't feel like its addressing the main aspects. It looks like a variety of editors have focused on recent and polarizing events, which is a frequent problem in articles like these although your point that she is more notable in recent years is well taken. The lack of detail early in the article has also caused a lot of one sentence paragraphs and disconnected thoughts which go to the quality of the prose and compliance with the manual of style. I probably should have expressed this more clearly before the article was passed. If I decide I think the problems are serious enough, I would probably do a community reassessment. I don't think that's in the cards now. Knope7 (talk) 01:25, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Knope7: Okay, that makes sense. I hope that at some point someone uses one of her many biographies to improve the article towards FA status, but we'll see. I would imagine that the biographies do a better job of covering her early life. StudiesWorld (talk) 01:27, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for the response. I know there is a wide spectrum for how the criteria is interpreted and I appreciate you explaining your thought process here. I agree main aspects should be something less than comprehensiveness, but to me skipping over so much time doesn't feel like its addressing the main aspects. It looks like a variety of editors have focused on recent and polarizing events, which is a frequent problem in articles like these although your point that she is more notable in recent years is well taken. The lack of detail early in the article has also caused a lot of one sentence paragraphs and disconnected thoughts which go to the quality of the prose and compliance with the manual of style. I probably should have expressed this more clearly before the article was passed. If I decide I think the problems are serious enough, I would probably do a community reassessment. I don't think that's in the cards now. Knope7 (talk) 01:25, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Naomi Koshi
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Recent changes
- The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.
Problems
- File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [19][20]
- Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [21][22]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [23]
- The Wikidata
wbeditentityAPI endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [24]
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13:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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June events with WIR
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Wikidata weekly summary #366
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
- Published in WWW 2019
- Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
- QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
- Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
- Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
- Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
- Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
- External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
- Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
- Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
- Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
- More work to get termbox ready for deployment
- Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [25][26]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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TheWikiWizard - Update
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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
- News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
- In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
- Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead
- Technology report: Lots of Bots
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
- Essay: Paid editing
- From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Hi, I changed the name of the 1st episode the actor appeared in CSI, I was watching the 2nd series as I spotted it, everything else in the page was fine, it was just the wrong episode he first appeared — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.50.179.159 (talk) 12:49, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #367
- Events
- Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
- Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
- Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada
- Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
- Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
- At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
- Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
- Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
- External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
- External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
- Query examples:
- Gay parades in Italy in 2019
- Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
- Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
- Dunes in Wikidata (source)
- Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
- Map of archives in the world (source)
- Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
- Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
- Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
- More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
- Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
- Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
- WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
- Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
- More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
- Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
- Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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 now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [27]
- There is now a field called
depictson Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [28] - Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [29][30]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [31]
Changes later this week
- Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [32]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
Administrator changes
Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
- An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
- An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.
Technical news
- The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
- Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
Miscellaneous
- The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
- The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.
This Month in GLAM: May 2019
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