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Wikidata weekly summary #221

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

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2016)

Archaeological record example: a section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs
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Archaeological record

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Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • History of the constellations

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Tech News: 2016-33

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

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [1]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [2]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [3][4]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [5]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [6]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [7][8]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [9]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [10]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #222

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

The Signpost: 18 August 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:40, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2016)

Heraldic Badge of the Spanish West Indies
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Spanish West Indies

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Previous selections: Archaeological record • The Sims (video game)

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Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [11]
  • The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [12]
  • The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [13]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [14]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [15]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [16][17]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [18]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #223

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

Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest

Doc's just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. Do express if you are interested or not by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks.  — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 05:46, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists

You are invited...

Women in Nursing editathon & Women Labor Activists editathon
Hosted by Women in Red - September 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Whitespace, newlines, and edit summaries

Hi Chaeckingfax: Softlavender and Drmies had left a question or two for you at Talk:Indecline, and I notice you've been editing since then but haven't responded. Seeing that you have made recent edits adding spaces between the == and the heading text and blank lines between the heading and the paragraph text following it, and not mentioning this in your edit summary (for example this edit, where the edit summary mentions only date format, but the only date format aspect of the edit that I can see is that you added a template specifying US date ordering), I checked the MOS and found that what it says on the main WP:MOS page is in fact much as I had thought it was - both those spaces and the blank lines after headings are optional:

Spaces between the equal signs and the heading text are optional, and will not affect the way the heading is displayed. The heading must be typed on a separate line. Include one blank line above the heading, and optionally one blank line below it, for readability in the edit window (but not two or more consecutive blank lines, which will add unnecessary visible white space in the rendered page). There is no need to include a blank line between a heading and sub-heading.

That makes them not wrong, but unnecessary changes (to be avoided because they clutter watchlists and they imply the other way was somehow wrong). I'm a bit concerned about you making such changes. But Softlavender raised a more serious concern, which is that the changes of that nature that you made at Indecline masked a lot of changes to the text, and since you had not mentioned textual changes, I didn't notice them until the characterization of Mexicans jumped off the page at me. Personally, as I have said at the article talk page, I'm inclined to AGF about those changes. However, you should not be automatically adding the state after every mention of a city in a list, as you did there. It's totally unnecessary with almost every one of the 5 cities mentioned, and completely unnecessary with links present (I had even linked unambiguously to Cleveland, Ohio for the benefit of non-Americans), and again, it gives the impression that the "city alone but with link" usage I employed is less correct. Which it is not. Please don't impose your personal preferences without thinking whether they are actual improvements, and if you do go ahead and make such changes, it should be in the edit summary, all the more if you have cluttered up the diff with blank lines. But it's possible you weren't fully aware that these are matters of personal preference? That still leaves the addition of "criminal undocumented", though. So can you please respond to Softlavender's query? I think this might be a better place, but I've pinged the other two partly in case they disagree (and partly in case they want to take issue with what I've said above; blame it on Indecline's shock tactics if you like). Yngvadottir (talk) 16:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2016)

The Holy Family with God the Father and the Holy Spirit by Carlo Dolci
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Holy Spirit

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Previous selections: Spanish West Indies • Archaeological record

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