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Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [1][2]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [3]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [4]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [5]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [6]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [7]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [9][10]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue III, March 2019 Headlines Albania report: WikiFilmat SQ - new articles about the Albanian movie industry! Armenia report: Art+Feminism+GLAM, Collaboration with Hovhannes Toumanian museum Australia report: Art+Feminism 2019 in Australia Brazil report: The GLAM at USP Museum of Veterinary Anatomy: a history of learnings and improvements Colombia report: Moving GLAM institutions inside and outside Colombia Czech Republic report: Edit-a-thon Prachatice France report: Wiki day at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art; Age of wiki at the Musée Saint-Raymond India report: Gujarat Vishw Kosh Trust content donation to Wikimedia Italy report: Italian librarians in Milan Macedonia report: WikiLeague: Edit-a-thon on German Literature Netherlands report: WikiconNL, International Womens Day and working together with Amnesty, Field study Dutch Libraries and Wikimedia Serbia report: Spring residences and a wiki competition Sweden report: UNESCO; Working life museums; Swedish Performing Arts Agency shares historic music; Upload of glass plates photographs UK report: Wiki-people and Wiki-museum-data USA report: Women's History Month and The Met has two Wikimedians in the house Wikidata report: Go Siobhan! WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons; Bengali Wikisource case study Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:50, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [11][12]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [13]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [14]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [15]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [17]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #362

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BRPever

• Events
  • Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
    • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
    • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
  • Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
  • The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
  • Suggestions based on the on-of constraints are now enabled for all users
  • New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
    • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
    • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
    • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
    • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
    • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

• Development
  • Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
  • Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
  • Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
  • Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
  • Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
  • Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
  • Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
  • Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
  • More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #361

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

• Events
  • Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
  • Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
  • Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
  • OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
  • Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
  • Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
  • The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
  • Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
  • Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
  • You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
    • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
    • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
  • Query examples:
    • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
    • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
    • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
    • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
    • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

• Development
  • Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
  • Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
  • Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
  • Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
  • Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
  • Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
  • Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 09:11, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [18][19][20]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [21]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [22][23]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-16

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

• All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [24][25]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #360

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
  • Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
  • New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
  • Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
  • The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
  • Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
    • External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
    • External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
    • Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
    • Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
    • Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
    • American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
    • French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet

• Development
  • Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
  • Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
  • Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
  • Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
  • Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
  • Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
  • Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
  • Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
  • More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
  • More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:59, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #363

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BRPever, welcome on board!

• Events
  • Upcoming: Adding structured and machine-readable data for copyright and licensing on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, workshop by Sandra Fauconnier about modelling copyright statuses on Wikidata, 10 May, at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Utrecht, Netherlands, on May 11th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XV about lexicographical data, May 23th in São Paulo, Brazil

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Kennisverrijking via Wikidata (in Dutch), by Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen, Hanno Lans and Janneke Jorna
  • Solving Art's Data Problem - Part One, Museums. Interview with Neil Stimler by Jason Bailey, mentioning Wikidata quite a few times
  • Technical usability of Wikidata's linked data: Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability - Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac.
  • Fine-Grained Named Entity Recognition using ELMo and Wikidata - C. Deha Doğan, et al.
  • Debiasing Vandalism Detection Models at Wikidata (PDF), Stefan Heindorf et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia receiving a grant from the Sloan Foundation
  • An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
  • New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: precedes word-initial, music video, specifying descriptor
    • External identifiers: Australian War Memorial ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artist ID, SIUSA ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, IndieDB video game ID, interwiki prefix at Wikimedia, K10plus editions, FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, Trainline ID, CatholicSaints.info ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gene sequence, Has written for, Rigging, Guix Variable Name, review of, NSF FICE Code ID
    • External identifiers: Watercolour World artist ID, VTB United League player ID, GNU ELPA package ID, MELPA package ID, Paměť národa ID, FragDenStaat public body ID, MobyGames genre ID, Interactive Fiction Database ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, HAL institution ID, Swedish Royal Theater
  • Query examples:
    • Some people are named after the strangest sorts of things (source)
    • Commons categories for a set of books, that have categories for people other than those 'explained' by statements on Wikidata for author, contributor, etc. (source)
    • Timeline for members of the Illuminati Order (source)
    • Newspapers founded before 1900 with their Twitter hashtag (source)

• Development
  • Remove heading elements in Wikibase diffs (phab:T220772)
  • Fix several issues on the Query Service interface (phab:T222182, phab:T222133, phab:T222129)
  • Rename the Schema extension to EntitySchema (phab:T221942)
  • Add data value type to Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T210598)
  • Investigate surprising rise in mobile page views (phab:T220977)
  • Show placeholders for label, description and alias on mobile termbox (phab:T217000)
  • Show each alias in a separate line in edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T218690)
  • Cancel edit mode on mobile termbox (phab:T215951)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)