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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.
- Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
- Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
- Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
- Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
- Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
- Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
- Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
- Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
- Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
- France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
- Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
- Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
- Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
- Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
- Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
- Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
- Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
- Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
- Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
- Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #187
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
- Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
- 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.
This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.
The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members!
The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.
The committee consists of twelve members, six of whom are selected every twelve months for staggered two-year terms.
- Key skills
Being a part of the Affiliations Committee requires communication with volunteers all over the world, negotiating skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to understand legal texts. We try to get a healthy mix of different skill sets in our members. The key skills and experience that we look for in candidates are:
- Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of volunteers worldwide.
- Willingness to process applications through a set, perhaps bureaucratic process.
- Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliations, and similar questions.
- Availability of up to 5 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly ~2 hour voice/video meeting.
- International orientation.
- Very good communication skills in English.
- Ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
- Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF.
- Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organising are a plus.
- Effective communication skills in other languages are a major plus.
- Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus.
- Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.
We are looking for people who are not afraid of the workload and are motivated by helping other volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world.
- Selection process
As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2015 member selection process will include a public review and comment period. All applications received by the committee will be posted on Meta (at Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2015 ), and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate.
At the end of the public comment period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee who are not seeking re-election, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, WMF staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made by mid-January 2016, with new members expected to join later that month.
- How to apply
If you are interested in joining the committee, please send an application to affcom@lists.wikimedia.org by 31 December 2015. You will get a confirmation that your application was received.
Your application should include the following:
- Your full name
- Your contact information (including e-mail address and username)
- A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee.
Your statement will be published for community review and feedback, so please do not include any information that you are not comfortable sharing.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me and/or the committee as a whole. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!
Best regards,
Carlos Colina
Chair, Affiliations Committee
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, 16:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
- Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
- Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
- Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
- Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
- Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org
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This Month in GLAM: November 2015
Headlines
- Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Digitization project
- France report: November comes and November goes, Wikimedians stay!
- Germany report: GLAM and copyright
- Italy report: Food images donation and much more!
- Mexico report: Rock and movies in Wikipedia
- Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Earth and Carmen Thyssen Museum
- Sweden report: Exhibitions and more images
- UK report: November in the UK
- USA report: GLAM activities in Seattle
- Special story: Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way
- Open Access report: OpenCon; Robots, oysters and amber
- Wikidata report: Wikidata this month
- Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #188
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
- Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
- Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
- Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
- 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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
- CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
- The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)
Changes this week
- There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).
Meetings
- Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
- No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
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Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
- WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
- Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: 32C3
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
- 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.
I really need your assistance
Hello, hope you are well. I have been editing on Wikipedia till earlier today. I use Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and sometimes I use the UC browser. I tried editing using Internet explorer and UC browser when I went back after sometime to edit. I can only edit using Opera Mini. Can you,please check my account because to be honest, I know nothing about Proxies. Please help me understand because I've tried to read about them but I cannot understand about them (Proxies). I have also added an unblock request on my talk page. Thank you.Nyanchoka (talk) 14:12, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #191
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
- Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
- 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.
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
- Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [1]
- You can make interactive graphs with the Graph extension. There is now a tutorial for how to do this. [2]
Problems
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [3]
Changes this week
- The Nuke extension will work with Flow. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow. [4]
- New file uploads will now be patrollable. [5]
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6] [7]
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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
- The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9] [10]
- There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11] [12]
- The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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This Month in GLAM: December 2015
Headlines
- Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Editing Challenges
- Basque Country report: Local Library weaves a community at Iurretapedia
- Bulgaria report: Archives Challenge; 100 ancient coins from Philippopolis
- Germany report: Wallraf Art and Focus on Zeiss
- Italy report: Fondazione Giorgio Cini donation and a new education project
- Macedonia report: Physics experiments in glorious HD!
- Netherlands report: Donation of videos; about Wikimedia during 3 conferences; image donation from Dutch Parliament; workshop at City Archive Rotterdam
- Spain report: GLAMing Madrid and Wiki Loves contests
- Sweden report: Riksutställningar
- UK report: National Library of Wales; Bodleian Libraries of Oxford
- Open Access report: Open Access stats; recent uploads
- Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
- Wikidata report: Wikidata this month
- Calendar: January's GLAM events
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Help decide the future of Wikimania
The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).
After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.
In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 21:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Sweet mistakes...
I don't know if she noticed it or if she cares, however I restored her correct name, just in case she does :-) --g (talk) 23:26, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- If you didn't ignore repeat requests of not burying your edits under a mass of bot edits, your edits would probably be more transparent and the impact of errors reduced. Nemo 17:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: Can you provide an example of the last time this was ignored? Both you cited were in fact followed, and not ignored. It has been awhile since I did mass edits on Meta in AWB - and I do use the bot tag when I do so. To my knowledge, no one has ever requested I do so when not doing mass edits in AWB. The two examples you point to were related specifically to that. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- As an aside, I have received complaints on IRC when I switched on bot tag for non-AWB editing. So I tend to not do that anymore. There does not seem to be a solution I can find that satisfies people except to use the bot flag when using AWB (which again - for me on Meta - is rather rare). Certainly welcome your input, but I absolutely disagree with your assessment that I've ignored anyone's requests. In fact, it has been the opposite, I have spent time pondering and talking with others about how to honor people's requests on this topic. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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!
- 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?
- 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.
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. [13]
- 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. [14]
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. [15]
- 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. [16]
- 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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