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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4

Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?

  • A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
  • A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
  • New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
  • SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
  • Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.


Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:1962 murders in the United Kingdom

Category:1962 murders in the United Kingdom, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:02, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Category:2003 murders in the United Kingdom

Category:2003 murders in the United Kingdom, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:03, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Australian settlement box

Hi, what do we do about it? Aussielegend's argument against converting to infobox settlement I believe was along the lines of "I don't like it". It remains one of the few countries which won't comply with standard.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:14, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

You can either re-nominate it, and hope wiser heads will prevail, or ignore it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:16, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Look at the ridiculous bloat in Perth though, distance from Jakarta, temperature. I can't see why they insist on having their own one.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:02, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. What do you think I can do about it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #163

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Expanded lead on WikiProject Persondata

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Persondata&diff=667982862&oldid=665283206 The update] you reverted didn't disagree that the RfC wasn't closed or that the result was "closed with consensus for removal". It was an effort to briefly expand, for WikiProject Persondata readers what is happening; which doesn't seem to be detailed elsewhere on the page. The two user links are the most current information available that I could find. I'd be happy for you to add an expanded discussion in the lead with "proper" links to the current project status.
SBaker43 (talk) 20:19, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

20150-06-22 Thinktank

Hello Andy

Hi Andy, how's it going? Naziacurator (talk) 14:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy

Hello, lovely to meet you, can I buy you a beer. MFofanova (talk) 14:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Hola Andy!

Hello Andy. This is Richard from Thinktank checking in. Richardinthailand (talk) 14:39, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Burke's Peerage

Hi Andy, I was wondering whether you happen to have a hardcopy of, or a subscription to Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107th edition) to help with this request over at WP:RX. Thanks. - NQ (talk) 14:48, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

  • Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [1] [2]
  • You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [3]

Problems

  • On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [4] [5] [6]
  • On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [7] [8] [9]
  • Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [10] [11] [12]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015

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Infobox motorcycle

Hi. I think this edit may be the reason for the error showing on this page... I might be wrong but don't seem able to fix it! Cheers, Nikthestunned 09:15, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

@Nikthestunned: That's odd. This workaround fixed it, but it the error must be in the Lua module, and that needs a permanent solution. I'll report it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:41, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #164

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

Tech News: 2015-27

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

  • Long lines in code blocks now look better. [13]
  • You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [14]
  • When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [15]
  • The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [16] [17] [18]
  • You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [19]

Problems

  • JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [20]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
  • You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [21]
  • When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [22]
  • If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [23]
  • Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [24]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

  • When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [25]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

QRpedia for dummies

Hi. I have a problem with QRpedia and I was advised you might be able to help. Could you ? brg --ModriDirkac (talk) 19:59, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

PMML Update

We've been having a busy summer at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The Literature award was announced on June 30th. The 2015 recipient is David Hackett Fischer. A new exhibit on late 19th century military life entitled Dignity of Duty opened on June 24th. The exhibit has a companion book, Dignity of Duty: The Journals of Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath, 1861-1898. Lots of Library Interns/Wikipedians in Residence have been busy updating biographies and creating stubs for WWI songs and WWI battles. The Museum & Library has gotten a lot of good press as a result, but that has yet to be reflected in the main Wikipedia article on the Museum & Library.

Also, I recently discovered thanks to the WikiProject directory that WP:GLAM/PMML is one of the larger GLAM projects. I am not sure how to convey that success to the larger world yet. Any ideas are welcome. TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:08, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Infobox street and London streets

Hi. Can you have a quick look at Park Lane, London? I've retro-fitted an infobox on the article using {{Infobox street}}, but the parameters use terms like "shield" and "metro station", which suggests it hasn't been used for London streets too much. I added an additional "tube" parameter as "Nearest metro station" just looks wrong, I see you've done quite a bit of work on the template, so it would be helpful if you could cast your eye over it and check that's okay? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Looks like User:Alakzi has already made improvements to the template. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:27, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

2015-07-03 BSHS

Hello Andy

Hi. We are at the same session in Swansea at the moment. JeffSA2 (talk) 13:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, Andy - thanks so much for such a helpful introduction to the world of wikipedia! Fossilspirit (talk) 13:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello

Good afternoon and thank you for the wonderful training session. Zeromonk (talk) 13:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi!

Hello, Andy. Thanks so much for coming to run the edit-a-thon for us today! Jambocatz (talk) 13:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

IP unblock

Can I safely reblock that IP now? Sam Walton (talk) 19:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

@Samwalton9: Thank you; yes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:54, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #165

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

Hello

How are you? Afrormosia (talk) 13:52, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

  • On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [26]

Problems

  • The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [27]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
  • The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [28] [29]
  • You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [30]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2015



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Introducing the new WikiProject Hampshire!

Greetings!

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I am happy to introduce you to the new WikiProject Hampshire! The newly designed WikiProject features automatically updated work lists, article quality class predictions, and a feed that tracks discussions on the 2,690 talk pages tagged by the WikiProject. Our hope is that these new tools will help you as a Wikipedia editor interested in Hampshire.

Hope to see you join! Harej (talk) 20:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 10 July

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #166

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

Tech News: 2015-29

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [32]
  • There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [33]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [34]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Template:Subject bar DRV

FYI. Alakzi (talk) 10:26, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: Thanks for the notification, but meh. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:49, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Ankita Diwekar Kabra

Hi Andy

I appreciate for taking time and reviewing this page (Ankita_Diwekar_Kabra). Ankita is definitely a notable person and features regularly in print media. She owns a premier school (which is no. 1 in the city with the population of around 5 million) and also a subject to a best seller book. I understand that perhaps a lot needs to be done on my end and I would deeply appreciate if you could provide a few pointers.

Regards

Sikandaramla (talk) 06:22, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

@Sikandaramla: I suggest you make your points - and provide details of the book - on the deletion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox SMS station

Template:Infobox SMS station has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox Station. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Nima Farid (talk) 17:49, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 12

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
  • Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
  • Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
  • American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

Read the full newsletter

The Interior 15:23, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


My RfA

Pavlov's RfA reward

Thank for !voting at my recent RfA. You voted Support so you get a whopping three cookies, fresh from the oven!
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:45, 16 July 2015 (UTC).

Infoboxes

I don't know what the ArbCom editing restrictions are, but if you continue I'll go to AE or back to ArbCom for clarification. You need to stop causing this kind of problem. Sarah (talk) 20:00, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

No you don't, do you. But if you want to make a fool of yourself, be my guest. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:02, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
OK, both of you, please calm down and let's discuss the issue at the talk page of the article. Montanabw(talk) 20:25, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, but I'm already perfectly calm. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:53, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 July 2015

Wikidata weekly summary #167

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

Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
  • You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [35]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [36]

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03:06, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Alakzi

Good morning, Andy. Do you know what's going on with Alakzi? He deleted his user page and archived all talk page threads yesterday, and has been MIA since then. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:29, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

I expect Alakzi will be back soon. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:26, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015

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Birmingham Quran manuscript has been nominated for Did You Know

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Wikidata weekly summary #168

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