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Tech News: 2020-29

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

  • Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [1]

Problems

  • Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [2][3]

Changes later this week

  • Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [4]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [5][6][7][8]

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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

good to see

your help with oz terminology - trust all is well JarrahTree 10:45, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

You've got mail _ from Selale to Andy _ thank you July2020

Hello, Pigsonthewing. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 23:26, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Andy, thank you so much... I wonder for your consideration for the job I completed this night, 5 paragraphs with 15 citations, and fully original scientific "edit". I wrote you an email and told you the details of my job, and what I created for "Editing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design".

Do you agree with the final result ?

Also, I uploaded 2 beautiful flower pictures for you :) as a reply to your wonderful cookies... and your beautiful yellow-orange flowers... thank you for everything... hope to see you soon...

Selale

Enlightening

Thanks for your lightning talk at the WMUK AGM. As another piece of evidence FYI, here's another fresh complaint that I just encountered. It shows how the new user experience is not the same that we veterans get and how it might not be appreciated. I'm not sure who we should tell about this but you probably know more. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: Thank you. The issue you mention may be a bug, in which case the complainant would be best advised to raise a ticket on Phabricator (we'd need them to do so, because a solution may require knowledge of their OS, their browser, whether they run an ad- or cookie- blocker, and so on); but in the meantime, I've drawn attention to it at VPT. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:42, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
    • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
    • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
    • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
    • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.
  • Development
    • More work on the consistent design system
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
    • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
    • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
    • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
    • Federated Properties:
      • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
      • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
    • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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.

just to inform _ 20july2020_studying for Ph.D. dissertation

Dear Andy, First of all, thank you so much for everything again,

I just would like to inform you about the recent researches I am carrying on. After our IDEA course section, I need to turn back to study for my doctorate thesis papers, so although I keep reading my watchlist pages every day on Wikipedia, and also in wiki data especially, I could not able to write new articles or could not able to make extended edits. I just excuse you for these so busy days, and I would like to inform you that I will keep writing new articles for Wikipedia and also keep editing as soon as possible.

for 2 days, just in the mornings, I have read about your recent contributions with pleasure... congratulations...

On the other hand, Wikidata, exactly gorgeous... Of course, I will be keeping my focus on wiki data and all the related researches papers in correspondence with my studies...

Hope to see you soon again, best wishes...

--Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 18:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

Tech News: 2020-30

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

  • A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

  • There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [9]
  • Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [10]
  • Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [11]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [12]

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19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you in July

July
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Thank you for improving articles in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 at Women in Red

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Need a help regarding infobox

Hi found your username from WP:IEmbed. I am struggling with sports infobox. Is there any multisport club infobox exists in wikipedia or is there any tweaks available to embed sports infobox like required in Mohun Bagan A.C. ? I need an embeding option like mentioned in WP:IEmbed but it's not working in this case. Can you please help me out in this. Will be thankful. Please feel free to ping me. Drat8sub (talk) 02:41, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [13]
  • The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
  • Advanced item On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

  • Advanced item The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [14][15]
  • Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [16]
  • Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #426

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.
  • Development
    • Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
    • Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
    • Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
    • Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
    • Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
    • Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
    • Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

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.

CommonSpirit Health Page - Leadership

Hi Andy, appreciate the edit you've made on the CommonSpirit_Health page. Suggesting an edit to the page to update the leadership section. Kevin Lofton has retired and is no longer co-CEO. Lloyd Dean is now the sole CEO of CommonSpirit Health. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-executive-moves/lloyd-dean-becomes-sole-ceo-of-commonspirit.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeremy at A+P (talk • contribs) 19:16, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

@Jeremy at A+P: Done, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:54, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Jeremy at A+P (talk) 15:44, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

News from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library

We've had a big year despite being physically shut down by Covid-19 for a while. We have reopened with social distancing measures in place. Here's a bunch of that news:

2020 Literature Award: Glantz is the 2020 recipient. see: http://universitypressblog.dept.ku.edu/uncategorized/upks-colonel-david-m-glantz-named-2020-pritzker-award-recipient/ and https://www.vmi.edu/news/headlines/2019-2020/vmi-alumnus-to-receive-pritzker-literature-award.php#:~:text=military%20historian%20Col.-,David%20M.,Lifetime%20Achievement%20in%20Military%20Writing.&text=Glantz%20is%20a%20dedicated%20author,Army%20in%20World%20War%20II

Citizen Soldier (TV program) is now in national syndication in the United States. See: http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/citizen-soldier-national-distribution/

The new Allied Race to Victory exhibit will be extended through March 2021. For more on the exhibit, see: https://abc7chicago.com/75th-anniversary-of-wwii-pritzker-military-museum-prtizker-ve-day/6145075/ and https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-museums-chicago-winter-guide-ttd-0109-20200108-qwz7q27gt5d33ejfaa45lx3xea-story.html

Thanks for all you do for GLAM institutions! TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:35, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

added Red Phoenix
readded Euryalus • SQL
removed Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

readded GB fan
removed Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020

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Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur _ nanotechnology in construction pyhsics

Dear Andy,

I keep publishing for wiki data, in focus to "nanotechnology and construction technology", just want to share today's article with you.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98034258

best wishes Andy, hope you enjoy your day

sincerely

Selale --Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 07:36, 3 August 2020 (UTC)Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

@Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur: Thank you. I made some additional edits; please take a look now. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:31, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Dear Andy, thank you for you sincerely, you share your time for me to add for the details of the article and I see it is perfectly good now, for the future articles I will contribute, I will keep your points, hope to see you soon... I will keep sharing you my contributions and I will be more than grateful to hear your critics every time, with please, after my Ph.D. graduation exam, I will contribute and publish more often, it is wonderful to be in wiki world. Thank you for everything... Best wishes...

--Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 11:24, 3 August 2020 (UTC)Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

Wikidata weekly summary #427

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wiki13
  • Tool of the week
    • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
  • Development
    • The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
      • Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
      • REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
      • Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
      • Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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: 2020-32

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

Problems

  • All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [18]
  • Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [19]
  • There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [20]
  • A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [21]

Changes later this week

  • The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [22]
  • Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [23]
  • Advanced item In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
  • Advanced item Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [24]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Ian Paisley/John Hume

I see you tagged the sentence, the quote in the article is the opposite of the sentence. Would it be better just to remove the mention of Paisley? I don't think we are going to find one to use as a citation. TIA Arnkellow (talk) 10:53, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Soz, just saw the talkpage. Arnkellow (talk) 10:54, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 7 • July 2020

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Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur _ Basics of Chemistry and Nano-science _ a new article on nanotechnology_ 5August2020

Good morning Andy,

to start a happy day with a new article on nanotechnology:

just to share with you;

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98081449

wish you an excellent day...

Selale

--Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 05:58, 5 August 2020 (UTC)Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

LEED green building and carbon emissions _ Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

2nd article of the day for wikidata

LEED green building and carbon emissions

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98084967

a pleasure to share with you,

best wishes, Selale

--Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur (talk) 09:23, 5 August 2020 (UTC) Dott Eng Arch SelaleSungur

Template:Infobox port

There is an error showing on the template since this edit. Are you planning to make further edits to fix it? Fob.schools (talk) 12:46, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

You give no examples, and do not define "error". There is nothing wrong, on, to take a random transcuision, Port of London. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:50, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
I assumed if you clicked the link I gave you would see it. It says:
Native name [{{{native_name}}}] error: {{lang}}: unrecognized language tag: {{{native_name_lang}}} (help)
Fob.schools (talk) 13:07, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Dont worry about it. Someone else seems to have fixed it for you. Fob.schools (talk) 16:57, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Citation Barnstar
For finding sources for Simon Evans that I was unable to — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:42, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Simon Evans (director), you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Andrew Scott and The Real Thing.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:26, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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