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Tech News: 2019-33

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

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [1]
  • Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [2]

Changes later this week

  • Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [3]

Meetings

  • 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 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019

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Wikidata weekly summary #378

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
    • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.
  • Development
    • Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
    • Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
    • Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
    • Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
    • Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
    • Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
    • More work on the the production Termbox service
    • tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
    • adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

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: 2019-34

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

Tech News

  • There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

  • Advanced item Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
  • Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [4]

Changes later this week

  • Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [5]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • 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 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
  • Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [6]

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15:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

RfC at Stanley Kubrick

This is a courtesy notice that there is an ongoing RfC about adding an infobox to Stanley Kubrick at Talk:Stanley Kubrick. Since you are a previous participant in such discussions, you may be interested in participating. --Laser brain (talk) 16:30, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Interwiki linking

Our article on the Royal Sardinian Navy has a link to the equivalent Italian article. That article has links to articles in French and Spanish. When I try to add the English article via Wikidata, there is an error message. I tried to file an error report but it didn't look correct on preview, with a redlink despite having the Q number correct. Wikidata is not my area of expertise, are you able to help sort this please? Mjroots (talk) 07:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

@Mjroots: Done. There was a duplicate item at Wikidata, which I have now merged. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:45, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Many thanks. Mjroots (talk) 12:41, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Waheed Arian

seems somewhat 'promo' IMO, Im surprised to have been reverted--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm surprised that you thought it OK to remove so much well-cited material, including the article subject being the recipient of significant awards, not least one from the president of his country, and being the subject of national television documentaries. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:56, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

August
red admiral
... with thanks from QAI

... for improving articles in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #379

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikimania recap, 27 August. Agenda
  • Development
    • Deploy mobile termbox, follow-up and bug fixing
    • Deploy then rollback the move of "Wikidata item" link on clients due to cache issues (phab:T66315)
    • Work on adjusting the save button of the Entity Schema editor (phab:T230398)
    • Work on the bridge emitting button (phab:T230326)
    • Introduce a header for the bridge modal (phab:T230328)
    • Produce initial statistics/indicators for the Wikidata Languages Landscape (phab:T223119)

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.

September 2019 at Women in Red

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Wikidata weekly summary #380

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
    • Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
    • Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
    • Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
    • Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
    • Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
    • Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
    • Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
    • Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
    • Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
    • Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
    • Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
    • Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
    • Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
    • Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
    • Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
    • Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

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: 2019-36

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

  • You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [7]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
  • The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [8]
  • The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [9]
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [10]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
  • When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [11]

Meetings

Future changes

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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2019

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 8 • August 2019

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

added Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
readded Floquenbeam • Lectonar
removed DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

removed Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

removed Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Category:Refugees by name

Hey there! I am at a loss to comprehend what you could possibly have had in mind when you created Category:Refugees by name. Huh?? Anomalous+0 (talk) 20:01, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear of your lack of comprehension. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:14, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Violet McDougall

Sources used for the recent reply to your question:

  • Mrs Violet McDougall lived at Icknield House, Tring Hill near Aylesbury - Bucks Herald 5 February 1943 Page 6 "Alleged Intent to Defraud" "Mrs. Violet Hannah McDougall, of Icknield House, Tring Hill, deposed that ..."
  • She regularly exhibited at the "Northern Counties Artists Exhibition" at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. = "Newcastle Journal" 26 March 1940 page 6 "Women Artists' Work ar THE LAING" by Edith Base, The Most noticable thing about the women's work in the Northern Counties Artist's Exhibition at the Laing Gallery this year .. At any rate, they have provoded a lovely show of serene and beautiful landscapes. Mrs Violet McDougall for instance (her daughter is married to Newcastle Under-Shefiff, Mr. Dudley F Appleby) shows a typical painting in her "Canal, Marsworth" ... (I did see another reference about her showing in previous years but cant find it at the moment!))
  • National Registration Act 1939 - 1939 Register list of people at Icknield House, Aylesbury includes "Violet H McDougall" born 10 Feb 1874, Unpaid Domestic Duties, married. Her husband is not at home but a Winifred A Dean born 2 October 1872 is listed as a Companion. Reference RG101/2136D/006/37
  • https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl shows a marriage between "Violet Hannah Arundel" and "Isaac McDougall" in Stockport in Q3 of 1898. Volume 8a Page 13. Free BMD also show a death of Violet H McDougall in the Northampton registration district in Q4 1967 aged 92 Volume 3b Page 634.
  • The 1881 Census of 178 York Street, Cheetham has Violet H Arundel as a 7-year old Scholar born Manchester living with her parents Henry B Arundel aged 33 a Machine Maker and Elizabeth Arundel aged 27 and two younger siblings. Prestwich registration district RG11/4023 Folio 11 Page 15
  • The 1891 Census at Avenue Road, Blaby, Leicestershire find her as a vistor at the house Henry Brown a Retired Fruit & Rice Merchant. Not dug that deep but in the house is Governess Jessie Busby who is probably related. RG12/2497 Folio 99 Page 44.
  • The 1901 Census of the Chorlton Registration District at 16 Moorfield. Didsbury she is aged 27 born Manchester and living with her husband Isaac McDougall aged 28 a Chemical Manifacturer. RG13/3670 Folio 19 Page 30

Notice that all the references spell her name with two LLs as McDougall. MilborneOne (talk) 15:01, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

That's incredibly helpful, thank you. For now, I've started to integrate the details into Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:49, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #381

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
    • The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
    • Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
    • Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
    • New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
  • Development
    • Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
    • New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
    • Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
    • Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
    • Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
    • Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
    • Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
    • Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

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.


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