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The Signpost: 07 January 2015 change
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
- In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
- Featured content: Kock up
- Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne
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Notificare de traducere: Stewards/Elections 2015 change
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Prioritatea acestei pagini este mare.
I apologize for the delay, but the 2015 Steward election banners are now available for translation. They consist of two banners with a few short phrases:
- Banner displayed to sysops regarding nominations (direct translation link)
- Banner displayed to users regarding voting (direct translation link)
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Meta translation coordinators, 04:36, 11 January 2015 (UTC)Wikidata weekly summary #140 change
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
- Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
- We had a meetup with nine people:
- set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
- Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
- For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
- Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
- Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
- Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
- More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
- Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
- Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
- Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
- Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
- Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
- We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
- 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
The Signpost: 14 January 2015 change
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Featured content: Citations are needed
- In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
- News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
- Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
- Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
- WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story
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Wikidata weekly summary #141 change
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion
- Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
- Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
- IRC office hour happened (log)
- Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
- MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The development plan has been updated and expanded
- Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
- Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
- Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
- Development
- Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
- Worked on redesign of header area
- Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
- Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
- Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
- 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!
The Signpost: 25 February 2015 change
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015 change
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- Gallery: Far from home
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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Notificare de traducere: Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015 change
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Meta translation coordinators, 21:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)Wikidata weekly summary #147 change
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
- Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
- Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
- Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
- Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
- New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
- There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
- Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
- Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
- Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
- You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
- Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
- Updated the json documentation
- Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
- Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
- Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
- Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
- Final touches on new header design
- Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
- More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
- Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
- Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
- 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!
The Signpost: 04 March 2015 change
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
- Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
- Interview: Meet a paid editor
- Traffic report: Attack of the movies
- In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
- Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
- Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
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Notificare de traducere: Oversight policy change
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Meta translation coordinators, 16:31, 7 March 2015 (UTC)Wikidata weekly summary #148 change
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
- The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
- Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
- 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!
The Signpost: 11 March 2015 change
- Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
- In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
- Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
- Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –
- Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters
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