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This Month in GLAM: August 2018



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Wikidata weekly summary #329

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

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Tech News: 2018-37

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

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [1]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [2]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [3]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [4]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [5]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [6]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed Emad Eldin

Hi Andy. I just saw a comment at the Teahouse, and thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed Emad Eldin. Trusting this finds you well, active and (seemingly from the post above) almost notable! Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:16, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #330

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
    • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing
  • Development
    • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
    • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
    • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
    • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

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: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [7]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [8]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [10]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

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

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft I just created

I just threw together Draft:Andy Mabbett, and I wanted to know what you thought (e.g. if you thought you met notability guidelines, or there was something inaccurate in the draft, etc.) IntoThinAir (formerly Everymorning) talk 16:07, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@IntoThinAir: Thank you for asking. It's not for me to comment on my own notability. My own CV is not, in Wikipedia terms, a "reliable source". No-one whose voice recording is sourced from BBC recordings "participated" in the WikiVIP project; you can name Fry, Jimmy Wales, Kate Warner, and Paolo Nespoli if you wish - the latter's recording is the first content made for Wikipedia in space. See also [11]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:13, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [12]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #331

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
    • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
    • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
    • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
    • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
    • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

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.


DYK for Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)

On 26 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Thomas Hawker (British Army officer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a successful Peninsular War charge led by Thomas Hawker (pictured) was said to prove that the use of carbines by cavalrymen was "nothing short of insanity"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Hawker (British Army officer). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Thomas Hawker (British Army officer)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

g'day Andy

It's a bit black over Bill's mother's. --Ahaust (talk) 02:37, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

hrahaman_bd attempt to edit

Thanks for organizing the workshop. Hrahaman bd (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello from Jeff

Thanks for the workshop. --Jeff2063 (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Thanks for the information about Wikipedia today in Perth! Delby9 (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Message for Andy - thanks

Thanks for the workshop at Flux. Handy info. --Jeifer19 (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

hiya Andy from Geraldton WA

Awesomesauce

thanks for teaching us wiki --Three Days Photography (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

G'day Andy

Thanks for presenting the Wikimedia workshop in Perth, today.--Futureboy1 (talk) 02:39, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Kaya Andy

It's a good day, isn't it?--Janhezhang (talk) 02:39, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Andy

Glad you came to Perth. --Chillychips (talk) 02:39, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Kaya Andy

Thankyou for such a wonderful workshop session at the Flux. PigsotWing (talk) 02:39, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

#ASA2018

Thank you for all your hardwork this week. I really appreciate it Morethangrass (talk) 02:41, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

birmingham

birmingham JarrahTree 02:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Andy!

Hello this is Louise Trott--LouiseTrott27 (talk) 03:00, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

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