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Wikidata weekly summary #356

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
    • View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
    • Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
    • Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
    • Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
    • Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
    • Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
    • Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
    • Deploy the score data type to production

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #357

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
    • An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in
  • Development
    • Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
    • Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
    • Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
    • Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
    • Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
    • Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
    • Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
    • Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
    • Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
    • Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
    • Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
    • Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
    • Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
    • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

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Wikidata weekly summary #358

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
    • Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
    • Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
    • Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
    • Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
    • Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
    • Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
    • More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
    • Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
    • Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
    • Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
    • Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
    • Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
    • Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
    • Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
    • Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)

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