User talk:Atcovi/Archive 9

Probationary Custodianship
Thank you for your kind comments and the original suggestion! Please feel free to comment, suggest, or criticize. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 14:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright. --Goldenburg111 14:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2014
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 * In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
 * Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

Wikidata weekly summary #132
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:04, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
 * Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
 * Did you know?
 * Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
 * Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
 * Development
 * Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
 * Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
 * Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
 * Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
 * Lots of bug fixes all over the place
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-46
 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 software changes
 * You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net.

File information cleanup
 * Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
 * You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
 * You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems
 * Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf7 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
 * You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions.
 * The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More".
 * The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs.

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about privacy policy violation
Great.... this is training for custodianship. Generally, do not call attention to ordinary privacy policy violations, do not link to them on-wiki.

Some have used IRC, but my opinion is that this can cause similar damage, anyone can be watching IRC. Instead, email a link to a custodian. We should have a private custodian mailing list -- only custodians could subscribe, but anyone could send a mail to that list. This is how stewards handle the matter, by email to stewards-l. I've emailed stewards-l, it works. So by the time anyone sees that something existed that was a privacy violation, it is hidden and only administrators may see it. Sometimes stewards will also oversight the data (hide it so even admins cannot see it.)

While you could tag a page for speedy deletion, that may only make sense if there is an independent reason for the deletion, writing "privacy violation" in the deletion reason is a problem, it will call attention to it.

I recently pointed out a possible privacy violation, but this is of another kind, it was discussion on this wiki of user behavior on another WMF wiki, attempting to depict the user as harmful based on that. This is much more in a gray area. It was not an emergency. It is, in this case, more that we want Wikiversity users to be assessed by behavior here, not elsewhere. Exceptions can exist. WMF-wide, there are few exceptions to the principle that what happens elsewhere is none of our business. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 16:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I see now, thanks for explaining it to me. --Goldenburg111 20:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Practice for custodianship
I'd like to suggest a regular activity for you. You already may be doing some of this, but if you do it in a particular way, it will not only give you practice, it will also document that so we can see it.

I frequently tag pages for deletion. I only do this when I consider the page eligible for speedy deletion, not something marginal. I just use the deletion template. When the page is deleted, there is no public record that I requested it. It shows up as a deleted page with one of X!s tools. http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?user=Abd&project=en.wikiversity.org

As you can see, I have 999 deleted edits on Wikiversity. Most of those would be from speedy deletion tags. Many page moves I do, I request speedy on the original page, after checking and dealing with possible incoming links. So many of those 999 are from page moves, of which I have 894. What's what cannot be seen from public records.

But when Dave deletes, he usually includes the first text from the page in the deletion reason. (That's excellent, by the way, some WMF sysops don't do that, and it all becomes less transparent, less visible). So this is my suggestion:

Watch recent changes. For most efficiency, shut off display of registered accounts (you can look at those separately. There will still be some vandalism and spam there, I'll write about that separately). Look for spam and vandalism. When you find it, tag it for deletion, and sign the deletion, i.e, I would use or. Because you want to leave some space in Dave's deletion reason for other content, use a short form of your name, you might even create an alternate account with a short name for that purpose, maybe three letters. I would not use three tildes because that makes a much longer record that is not needed.

Do not tag for speedy deletion any page that you would not delete, as a custodian, on request (or directly). This will then show your understanding of speedy deletion policy. You can make mistakes, and you will learn from them! If you have a question, don't place that tag as a question, rather ask in an appropriate place, or use a prod tag with the question. Generally, unless you really want to start a discussion, don't ask on the attached Talk page unless maybe it already exists. That would just create another page to delete!

Now, as to registered accounts. This is my welcome practice. I shut off display of anonymous edits in Recent Changes. I will often change the display limit to up to 5000 changes, it depends on how long it has been since I last looked for users to welcome. (Do this by setting the limit to 50 changes, then edit the limit in the URL to 5000 or whatever number you want to use. You can create a link that will do all this with one click.) I look for users with blue contributions and a red Talk link. I load the contributions as a new tab in my browser, and keep going until I've reviewed whatever I've displayed. Then I look at the contributions. If I see anything that looks like sincere participation, no matter how small, I welcome. Doing this, I find spam and occasionally vandalism. I then tag that. I do not normally warn spammers and vandals. As a custodian, at this point, I would not block them for a single problem edit, only if there is a pattern. So if you would block as a custodian, or perhaps warn, then as a user you may warn. That will set up, again, a record showing your understanding of Wikiversity policy and practice. Be nice, *and* be firm.

To repeat, if you watch Dave's practice, we do not normally warn vandals and spammers. They know what they are doing! We do not normally block for a single edit or maybe even a short burst of them. The reason is that they will not usually come back! It's only when they come back that we normally use the block tool. (And if blocked, they may simply register a new account with alternate IP.) When we block, we will usually leave the talk page open, even if we don't create a block notice for a spam-only or vandalism-only account. They will see the block reason if they try to edit! I will not get into what we do if a problem escalates, but you should watch how Dave and others handle this. When I see global vandalism or spam, I will often to go meta for global blocks/locks, or to the global blacklist request page to have a clear spam target site globally blacklisted. Develop a familiarity with those practices, you can watch the steward request pages and the meta blacklist talk page.

I will usually, having a bunch of talk pages to create, and looking at contributions or at a specific diff, then load in that tab the talk page. I come back and do all the talk pages at once with copy and paste of the template, and lately I've been pasting the full template in the edit reason as well, so that anyone can see the actual wikitext to use for a welcome. This is all quick and efficient. It could all be set up with a semi-automated browser, I haven't done that, this is all manual.

As a result of this, you will normally have all these user talk pages in your watchlist. You will see if someone communicates with the user, perhaps with some difficulty or problem. You will actually be able to help the user if they need help, and at the same time protect the wiki. I have, at this point, 4092 watched pages, not counting talk pages. (If a user talk page is on the list, it is shown as the regular user page and edits to either are displayed with the watchlist).

If you do both processes regularly, you will be acting as a major maintainer of this site. Then we can look at site organization, a more difficult problem, but one where, if you develop an understanding of what we have been doing, you could be a very big help, and it would be visible.

I recommend that you formally withdraw your custodianship candidacy, per Dave's suggestion. You can later restart that page when ready. I do have every confidence that you will become an excellent custodian. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 14 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot Abd for all the help. I'm not really into custodianship for now anyways, but yes I have withdrawn it, but will open it up when I feel like it can be done. --Goldenburg111 15:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #133
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:59, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
 * GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help make sure these items have labels in your language
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NATO code for grade
 * Development
 * Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
 * Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
 * Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
 * Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
 * Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
 * Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
 * Improved calendar model display
 * 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: 12 November 2014
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Read this Signpost in full &middot; Single-page &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 02:45, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
 * Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
 * WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
 * Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

Tech News: 2014-47
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf8 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
 * The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19.

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
 * The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
 * You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
 * You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
 * Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
 * You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC.

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Upload File
Nutmegging of Puyol. --ConfilasoTechnican (discuss • contribs) 16:03, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Goldenburg111 16:11, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #134
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
 * Building a periodic table using Wikidata
 * Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
 * The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
 * Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
 * Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
 * WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
 * VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
 * Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
 * Development
 * When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
 * Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
 * The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
 * Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
 * While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
 * More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
 * Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
 * Bug fixes
 * Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-48
<section begin="technews-2014-W48"/> 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 move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator.

Problems
 * There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the  or   option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf9 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
 * You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options.
 * VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved.
 * You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window.
 * VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages.

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014
<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read this Signpost in full &middot; Single-page &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:21, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
 * In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
 * Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
 * Traffic report: Big in Japan
 * WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

Wikidata weekly summary #135
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
 * Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
 * Picture this!
 * Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
 * Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
 * IRC office hour on Wednesday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
 * Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
 * VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
 * Development
 * Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
 * Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
 * Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
 * Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
 * Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
 * Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
 * Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix T74348
 * Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
 * JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
 * Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
 * Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
 * Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
 * Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
 * Input on Wikibase/Indexing
 * 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: 03 December 2014
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 * Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
 * In the media: Embroidery and cheese
 * Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
 * Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
 * WikiProject report: Today on the island

Wikidata weekly summary #136
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * IRC office hour (log)
 * Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * Statements on properties are now live
 * Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
 * The Game has a new mode: alma mater
 * Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
 * Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
 * English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
 * Development
 * Started work on units
 * More work on evaluating options for querying
 * Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
 * Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
 * Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
 * Work on improved label lookup performance
 * Wrapping up work on usage tracking
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-50
<section begin="technews-2014-W50"/> 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 software changes
 * All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
 * You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf11 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar).
 * You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key.
 * It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better.
 * The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs.
 * (Lua) You can no longer use  to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix.

Future changes
 * Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate.

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014
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 * Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
 * In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
 * Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
 * Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

Wikidata weekly summary #137
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
 * Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
 * past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
 * Development
 * More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
 * Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
 * Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
 * Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
 * Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
 * Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
 * Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-51
<section begin="technews-2014-W51"/> 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 software changes
 * You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
 * You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf12 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
 * You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,  or.
 * VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
 * The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.

Future changes
 * The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
 * You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014
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 * In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
 * Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
 * Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
 * Traffic report: A December Lull

Wikidata weekly summary #138
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Petr Matas
 * Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Welcome Freebase!
 * Freebase announcement
 * Wikidata announcement
 * Wikiproject
 * Primary sources tool
 * Heise
 * Venturebeat
 * Gigaom
 * Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
 * New tree of life based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
 * New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
 * Showcase items: Lion
 * Development
 * Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
 * Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
 * Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
 * Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
 * Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
 * Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
 * Finished tree of life
 * Some more work on support for units
 * Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
 * Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
 * The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-52
<section begin="technews-2014-W52"/> 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 software changes
 * The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private.

Software changes this week
 * There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6.

Future changes
 * The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations.
 * A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014
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 * From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
 * In the media: Wales on GamerGate
 * Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
 * WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
 * Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

Tech News: 2015-01
<section begin="technews-2015-W01"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes
 * There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014
 * 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 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014
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 * News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
 * In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
 * Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
 * Featured content: A bit fruity
 * Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
 * Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

Wikidata weekly summary #139
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
 * new RfC: CoI editing
 * Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
 * The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
 * wikidata4research4all
 * There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
 * Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
 * The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
 * Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
 * Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
 * Development
 * Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
 * Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
 * 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: 07 January 2015
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 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #140
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 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 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

Tech News: 2015-03
<section begin="technews-2015-W03"/> 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 software changes
 * Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files.
 * You can now use the  magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe  in tables and templates. You can delete the template.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf14 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
 * A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a  (Sun) character. This is now fixed.
 * The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages.
 * The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor.
 * The  option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar.

Future changes
 * You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier.

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015
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 * 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

Wikidata weekly summary #141
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 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 Test Wiki. An example is at 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!

Tech News: 2015-04
<section begin="technews-2015-W04"/> 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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.
 * Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems
 * All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed.

Software changes this week
 * There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings.

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015
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 * From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
 * Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
 * Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
 * Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
 * News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
 * In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
 * Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
 * Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
 * Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

Wikidata weekly summary #142
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
 * Past: Meetup in Cambridge
 * Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
 * Wikidata - a year in numbers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
 * The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
 * Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
 * You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
 * Development
 * More work on header section redesign
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
 * Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
 * Implemented entity change subscription service
 * 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!

Tech News: 2015-05
<section begin="technews-2015-W05"/> 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 software changes
 * You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis.

This week
 * There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings.

Future changes
 * You can join a project to improve WikiProjects.
 * The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed.

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