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Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016
Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

Tech News: 2016-18

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 visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [1]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [4]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

GLAM Boot Camp announced (June 14-16 in DC)

You have expressed interest in the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, so you may be interested in attending the GLAM Boot Camp next month in Washington, DC. This is a training designed to help Wikipedians interested in guiding museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions in wiki engagement. Travel funding available for those in North America. Since the event is coming up soon, please be sure to add your name to the page if you are interested -- and please pass this announcement along. (You may want to share on Facebook or on Twitter.) Thanks for your interest! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

My apologies - here is the link for the GLAM Boot Camp mentioned above: Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot Camp. -Pete (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #208

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

Tech News: 2016-19

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

  • Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [5]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [6]
  • Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [7][8]
  • You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [9]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [10]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [11]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [12]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [13]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [14]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [15]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2016



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Hi Andy, I hope you are well! I would like to practise some Wikipedia editing, before I completely forget everything. I remember you once sent us an email with the link to a page listing all chemistry related subjects/articles that needed to be written or expanded. How do I find that? Thanks

Eowyn041084 (talk) 15:03, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

@Eowyn041084: Hi, There are some at Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal Society of Chemistry#Articles needed, and links to more there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:08, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Faro station, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Faro. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

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Hello Andy

Hi there. Phelana2 (talk) 14:19, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

WP:Conflict of interest

You've done something here. I can't work out what it should be, but it seems wrong. 

:<span style="font-size:100%;"><tt>{{Connected contributor|User1=''Your username'' |U1-declared=yes| |U1-otherlinks=''Insert relevant affiliations,{{#tag:ref|{{#tag:ref||group="nb"|name=""}}|group="nb"|name=""}} disclosures, article drafts, or diffs showing COI contributions.''}}</tt></span>

213.205.252.17 (talk) 19:35, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

What do you mean? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:40, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
It looks like you might've accidentally inserted some template tags in this edit. Izkala (talk) 20:11, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. How bizarre. Fixed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

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 image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [16]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [17]

Changes this week

  • Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [18]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [19]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [20]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [21]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #209

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

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

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Orphaned non-free image File:Logo of the Royal Society of Chemistry.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Logo of the Royal Society of Chemistry.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:37, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Cyril Ellis

Are you sure that redirect is correct. The articles that link to it are refer to someone else.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Yes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:56, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
OK Cheers. I will alter the articles that link to Cyril Ellis - clearly a different person.Peter Rehse (talk) 20:00, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
@PRehse: It can be made into a disambiguation page, when the other articles are written. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:03, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #210

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

Tech News: 2016-21

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

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [23]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [24]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

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Tech News: 2016-22

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

  • There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [25]

Problems

  • A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [26][27]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [28]

Changes this week

  • When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [29]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [30]
  • A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [31][32]
  • Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [33]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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