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Wikidata weekly summary #315

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
    • Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
    • Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
    • Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
    • Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
    • Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
    • Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
    • Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
    • Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
    • Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
    • Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
    • Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
    • Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)

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.


Tech News: 2018-23

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [1]
  • Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [2][3]
  • Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [4]

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
  • MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Wow... you welcomed neil patrick harris!

Hello! Thought you might like to know that in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX_jkRI5pNE) you welcomed Neil Patrick Harris on his User_talk:Actuallymenph. Ok bai lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.190.44.65 (talk • contribs) 23:39, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red tools and technical support

We are preparing a list of tools and technical support for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided assistance in connection with Wikidata and on article boxes. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or corrections.--Ipigott (talk) 07:25, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott: That's fine; thanks for letting me know. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2018



Headlines
  • Armenia report: GLAM meetings and collaborations
  • Australia report: GLAM Peak having impact & International Museum Day edit-a-thon
  • Belgium report: Public domain month celebration; Edit-a-thon Amnesty International Vlaanderen; Upcoming photo contest: Wiki Loves Heritage
  • Brazil report: New milestones for Brazilian GLAMs
  • France report: Bibliothèque universitaire de la Sorbonne; Laboratoire Latmos; Study day on photographic as heritage
  • Germany report: Two fantastic weekends with science fiction literature and the history of mining made audible
  • Ireland report: First Irish GLAM upload to Wikimedia Commons; Hunt Museum is first Irish GLAM to donate images to Wikimedia Commons
  • Italy report: Contests, webinair and meetings
  • Macedonia report: GLAM activities
  • Netherlands report: Women Tech Storm, GWToolset workshop and Wiki goes Caribbean
  • Norway report: Bodil Biørn and human rights
  • Portugal report: FEM's GLAM and Guinea-Bissau
  • Russia report: GLAM in Russia: need more contests
  • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence in the Museum of Yugoslavia
  • Sweden report: Democracy; Museum of World Culture
  • UK report: Scottish Library and Information Council
  • USA report: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editor's Article on Doria Ragland Tops Wiki Search List For UK Royal Wedding: Libraries Key in her Wikipedian Journey
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
  • Wikidata report: EuropeanaTech conference, Lexicographical data, plus all your usual news
  • WMF GLAM report: Recent travels; Structured Data on Commons updates
  • Calendar: June's GLAM events
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CEE Newsletter - May 2018


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PoliMo 2018-06-11

Hello Andy. Dilanokalfa (talk) 10:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. GiuliaBevi93 (talk) 10:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Ali esmaeili1364 (talk) 10:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy.Ilaria.denti (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Alessandro Lodesani (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Montanabernese (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy, Mcmor (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. ‍‍Alireza1990polimi (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Goeie middag Andy! Greetings in my native Language ;). JFA DeWit (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy.Fede lucy (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Matteo1234MM (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Jalayer masoud (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Nicolo.pini92 (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy.ASDFG (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Javalone (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy.Su.formenti (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy DocMatSte (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Keith arano (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy, later when you have time I would like to make 2 questions. Thanks a lot. B.regards Luisaugusto.polimiit (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Greetings. --MaurizioFD (talk) 10:12, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. By --MATTEO BOZZI (talk) 10:13, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

KHsdkfk --Linmao1013 (talk) 10:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello andy Ale va991 (talk) 10:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Andy,Fujinbin1993 (talk) 10:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy. Alireza1990polimi (talk) 10:22, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 10:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #316

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Press, articles, blog posts
    • Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)
  • Development
    • Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
    • Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
    • Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
    • Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
    • Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
    • Started planning for support for Senses
    • Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
    • Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
    • Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
    • Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
    • Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
    • Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)

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.


Tech News: 2018-24

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

  • In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [8]
  • Advanced item There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [9]

Problems

  • The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [10]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Bibliography

Hello. Is there a template for a list of an author's notable/recent publications, such as that at Eric Scerri? I can't seem to find one. Msuxg (talk) 16:11, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Many people use the CS1 family of templates, including {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}, for this purpose. They take a bit of work to learn, but they have some error-checking built in and help ensure a consistent format. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:48, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Ah, so a bibliography has no separate template of its own, people just list appropriate articles using the CS1 templates? Msuxg (talk) 16:52, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

  • As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
  • Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 100 review coin, 250 review coin, 500 review coin, 1000 review certificate.
  • Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

ISNI surge in Wikidata

ISNI now before LCCN. 2.247.26.14 (talk) 13:26, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

A listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect A. Since you had some involvement with the A redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:35, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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 later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [14][15]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [16][17]
  • Advanced item All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [18]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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