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Wikidata weekly summary #224

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
    • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
    • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
    • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29
  • Development
    • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
    • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
    • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
    • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
    • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
    • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
    • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)


This Month in Education: [September 2016]


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Wikidata weekly summary #225

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
    • 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
    • Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
    • Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
    • English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
  • Development
    • RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
    • Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
    • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
    • Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
    • Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
    • Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
    • We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
    • Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #226

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
    • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
    • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
    • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
    • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
    • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
    • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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Infobox telescope

I noticed your edit to Template:Infobox telescope. This edit produces strange-looking results. The diameter (of the objective lens or mirror) is normally stated in inches for older optical telescopes (never feet and inches). For older radio telescopes the diameter of the main reflector is stated in feet (not feet and inches; usually the statements are not accurate to the inch so including inches would be false precision). For modern telescopes, both optical and radio, diameters are in meters. The template should not be converting inches to feet and inches, as it currently does for Hale telescope; the only conversions should be between American customary units and meters. The American customary unit for radio telescopes should be feet, and the American customary unit for optical telescopes should be inches. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:38, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Jc3s5h: Thanks for the heads-up about the issue. I think I've resolved it with this edit, which checks to see whether feet/inches/square inches are used rather than m/cm/sqm, and flips the conversion to convert to SI if needed. Does that look better to you now? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:17, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
It looks better for Hale Telescope. The modern large telescopes, where the diameter is usually designated in meters, all seem to have various notations and/or citations, which (properly) prevent the importation of Wikidata and hence avoid having your code apply to them.
It seems to work OK for South Pole Telescope using metres, so hopefully it'll work OK in the other articles when they're migrated. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:46, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
I argue that the customary American diameter of the South Pole Telescope should be give as 394 inches, to permit easier comparison to the diameter of older telescopes with well-known diameters in inches, such as the 200-inch Hale telescope or the 100-inch Hooker telescope. Jc3s5h (talk) 20:30, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
Quality process on Wikidata

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Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Mike Peel. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
  • A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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RfC on importing Wikidata information into Wikipedia observatory infoboxes

Please see the RfC Template talk:Infobox observatory#Comments on RfC: Satisfy verifiability related RfC? Jc3s5h (talk) 12:40, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
    • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
    • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
    • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
    • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
    • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

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Q42 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Q42. Since you had some involvement with the Q42 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Orange Mike | Talk 22:01, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
    • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
    • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

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