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Wikidata weekly summary #246

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now download query results as SVG images
    • When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
    • We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
    • Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
    • Setting up test system for lexemes
    • Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
    • Doing more groundwork for lexemes
    • Working on better integration with Elastic
    • More work on Federation
    • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
    • Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
    • Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
    • Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
    • Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

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This Month in GLAM: January 2017



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50 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Nursing in Germany (talk) Cleanup
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4,586 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 (talk) Expand
490 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Nuclear proliferation (talk) Expand
60 Quality: Low, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: Start Heathrow Terminal 5 station (talk) Expand
82 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Nursing in India (talk) Unencyclopaedic
33 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Politics in the British Isles (talk) Unencyclopaedic
561 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Abdul Qadeer Khan (talk) Unencyclopaedic
139 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Private member's bill (talk) Merge
190 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Ventricular pressure (talk) Merge
98 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Diciotti-class offshore patrol vessel (talk) Merge
782 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Euroscepticism (talk) Wikify
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Supernatural Chicago (talk) Wikify
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Revenue Act of 1940 (talk) Wikify
4 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Lopes Suasso (talk) Orphan
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Alex Hills (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start André Stordeur (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Arthur Boyer (talk) Stub
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Delegated Legislation Committee (talk) Stub
26 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Public bill committee (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Raymond Rock (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Noël Saint-Germain (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Elphège Marier (talk) Stub

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Tech News: 2017-07

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

  • EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [1]

Problems

  • The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [2]
  • Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [3]

Changes this week

  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [4]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (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 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [5]
  • The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #247

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
    • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
    • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
    • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

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Please comment on Talk:2017 World Rally Championship

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Protection of Template:Infobox

Can you lower the protection of template:infobox to "template protection", so template editors can edit it? --George Ho (talk) 21:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Wow, that one was a long time ago! Happy to - template protection wasn't around in 2006 and per WP:PP it looks like it's recommended for these cases. Might be worth running a report to switch it on all these old heavily-used ones... Andrew Gray (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Government of the Republic of China

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Wikidata weekly summary #248

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
    • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
    • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
    • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

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Tech News: 2017-08

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

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [7]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [8]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [9]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (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 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

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63 Quality: High, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: FA Reportedly haunted locations in Pennsylvania (talk) Cleanup
184 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Eleanor Laing (talk) Cleanup
17 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Justice Select Committee (talk) Expand
4 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency) (talk) Expand
137 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal (talk) Expand
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start The quick and the dead (idiom) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
150 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Abkhaz–Georgian conflict (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,162 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Nurse practitioner (talk) Unencyclopaedic
34 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C NHS Digital (talk) Merge
466 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C National Insurance (talk) Merge
591 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B English as a second or foreign language (talk) Merge
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Military Soyuz (talk) Wikify
15 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Richard Brome (talk) Wikify
9 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Greatest Remix Hits (album series) (talk) Wikify
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub St James Street tube station (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Hug A Brit (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start CAARE (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Advisory Committee on Works of Art (talk) Stub
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Anatole Carignan (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Paul-Émile Côté (talk) Stub
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Communities and Local Government Committee (talk) Stub
12 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle (talk) Stub
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Joseph-Séraphin-Aimé Ashby (talk) Stub

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1,975 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B European migrant crisis (talk) Cleanup
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4,015 Quality: High, Assessed class: GA, Predicted class: FA Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (talk) Expand
484 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Search and rescue (talk) Expand
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48 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Lancaster Gate tube station (talk) Unencyclopaedic
440 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start History by period (talk) Merge
416 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Constellation program (talk) Merge
81 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Lloegyr (talk) Merge
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100 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA ISS ECLSS (talk) Wikify
33 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Orion abort modes (talk) Wikify
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8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Environmental Audit Select Committee (talk) Stub
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Request for Geonotice - Lima Peru

Hi, Andrew!

I have just added a request for a Geonotice for an edit-a-thon taking place on March 11 in Lima, Peru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Requests However, the link to the meetup page is showed in red, so now I don't know if I have put my request in the right place. Is there a different page for requests for Spanish Wikipedia? I would really appreciate any help on this. --Yhhue91 (talk) 18:25, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Southern American English dispute

Hello, I got your name off and active list of admins. I was wondering if you could please help in regards to this topic: On the southern American English page, Me, along with Kelthan and Dubyavee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image ) opposed taking the map off. It was originally removed without any edit summary. Since it was sourced, I heard you can't remove content without justification. That's three opinions against one that have given feedback on this. I took this to Bilcat who reverted our edits. I politely contacted Bilcat on his talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:BilCat&action=history), and he immediately removed and ignored my message. Can you please help? If you look at the history page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_American_English&action=history You can see both Kelthan and I were against taking the map off. And there was a previous discussion about this on the talk page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Southern_American_English#Delete_image where Dubyavee disagreed with taking the map off. Bilcat then reverted this falsely claiming the consensus was against this. The map was originally taken off without given and edit summary, despite it being sourced. Can you please help? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinfromtx (talk • contribs) 23:45, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Libraries Without Borders

Hello, I'm very new to wikipedia, and I wanted to correct the Libraries Without Borders article on the site. Bibliothécaires Sans Frontières means Librarians without borders, a separate, different organization. So, I wanted to change the title to: Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, or Libraries Without Borders as the translation of the page "Bibliothèques Sans Frontières" that already exists in French.

I'm not much of an online editor, but I do translation work and wanted to contribute. I don't know who created this page, but both the English content and the redirects to this page indicate that Bibliothécaires Sans Frontières page title is a typo that should be the English version for Bibliothèques Sans Frontières. Even the links on the page send me to their websites.

I'd really appreciate your help, M MattBenoît (talk) 09:33, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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