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Wikidata weekly summary #384

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
    • Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
    • You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th
  • Development
    • More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
    • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
    • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
    • research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
    • More preparation work for improving references

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 #385

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
  • Development
    • Continue work on removing and optimizing resource loader modules
    • Wikidata Bridge: obey wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish (phab:T228260)
    • Canceling the modal (phab:T231282)
    • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
    • Investigation to ensure editing with the same credentials (phab:T231887)

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 #386

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
  • Development
    • Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
    • A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
    • Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
    • Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
    • Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
    • Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
    • Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

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.

Proposed deletion of New Capitol Cinemas

Notice

The article New Capitol Cinemas has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable company.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:04, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of New Capitol Cinemas for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article New Capitol Cinemas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Capitol Cinemas until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 09:58, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #387

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata won an Open Publishing Award (description).
    • Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
    • Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
    • You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
  • Development
    • Fixed the DuplicateReferences gadget that was broken due to refactoring work needed to make pages load faster and development easier (phab:T234094)
    • Wikidata Bridge: restricting the length of string value inputs (phab:T229241)
    • research delayed kicking in of Bridge (phab:T233305)
    • enable/disable save button depending on Bridge state (phab:T230342)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted references

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.


Oct 23: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

October 23rd, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan
(note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 05:32, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

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