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Wikidata weekly summary #192

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
    • Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
    • Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
    • Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
  • Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
  • Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
  • Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
  • Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
  • Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
  • Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
  • Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
  • Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
  • Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
• Development
  • Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
  • Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
  • Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
  • Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
  • Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
  • Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
  • Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [1]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [2]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [3]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6

Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:

• Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
• One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
• Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2016)

An izakaya drinking establishment in Gotanda, Tokyo Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Izakaya Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Chowder • Deity Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Tech News: 2016-04

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 now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [5][6]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [7]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [9]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [10]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [11]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [12] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [13] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:10, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Pink capitalism

The article describes a term used in critical circles, usually linked to marxist thinking, but not exclusively. It is already quoted in the first paragraph that it comes from a critical perspective, not widely used still by the general population, although increasingly used in Spain, specially in LGBTI movements. Even if it is linked to pink money, it does not refer to the same thing (the same happens with purchasing power, isn't the same as capitalism), as it links not only western capitalist economy with LGBT issues, but also with sociology.

Although I also consider YouTube references are usually not the best ones, three of them are part of an academic conference about Pink Capitalism given by spanish LGBTI activists and academic researchers, and the other one is a news item from the Spanish Television, so in this case I think they may be appropriate. In any case, these references are usually together with other ones that complete the paragraphs. I can check them in case they are alone to supplement the references with another article or book chapter.

About merging the article with a wider one about LGBTI economy, I don't think it would fit. The point is that Pink capitalism is used to refer to the processes written in the article. However, another article called LGBTI economy or LGBTI capitalism would be very interesting, incorporating other points of view, and maybe including a subpart with an abstract about pink capitalism.

Finally, just another thing. The article is not an original research. It all come from the quoted sources, intralinks and external links. It is true that is a translation from Spanish and perhaps it is difficult for English speakers to access that information. Also, there are some wikipages in Spanish that may contain some information that is not possible to link in English as those pages do not exist.

DaddyCell (talk) 22:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)

The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Killing of animals Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Izakaya • Chowder Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #194

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Replicator: Wikidata import tool
  • The Facebook of German Playwrights
  • Language usage on Wikidata
  • Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
  • Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
  • some visualizations:
    • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
    • Doctoral students of Gauss
    • Tributaries of the Danube
    • Children of Kronos
    • Influenced by Leibnitz
    • Graphs
    • Zika virus papers
  • KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
  • Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
  • Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
  • WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
  • Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
  • Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
  • Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
  • New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
• Development
  • und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
  • Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
  • Final touches on making search work on mobile
  • Finishing identifier datatype and section
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • 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(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:45, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

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

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [14]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [15][16]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [17]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [18]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [19][20]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [21]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [22][23][24]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [25][26]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (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 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [27]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Google Doodle task force

	Hello, Tom Morris. You're invited to join the Google Doodle task force of the Today's articles for improvement project. We aim to improve articles on current and previous Google Doodles to turn them into a valuable and inspiring resource for interested readers. If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. Thank you for your consideration.

– Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:54, 2 February 2016 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Today's articles for improvement

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2016)

Delivery trucks in San Salvador, El Salvador Hello, Tom Morris. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Delivery (commerce) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Killing of animals • Izakaya Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:00, 8 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •