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Hallo, diese Änderungen Datei:Mönchengladbach-MG Mitte Denkmal-Nr. B 001, Barbarossastraße 22 (5413).jpg|mini|Wohnhaus sind nicht nötig. Von Wikimedia wird File:Mönchengladbach-MG Mitte Denkmal-Nr. B 001, Barbarossastraße 22 (5413).jpg|thumb|Wohnhaus vorgegeben, was ich auch weiterhin verwenden werde. Es sind beide Variationen zulässig. Gruß --Karl-Heinz (Diskussion) 10:03, 7. Jan. 2015 (CET)
Hallo Karl-Heinz, da ich diese Edits halbautomatisch durchführe, kann ich sie leider nicht verhindern. Die Bezeichnung einzudeutschen ist nicht das schlimmste. Da die Artikel eh noch einmal auf Richtigkeit überprüft werden (teilweise stimmen die Stadtteile nicht), müssen hier weitere Edits getätigt werden. Auch die Aufteilung der Liste, die aus der Not geboren alphabetisch getrennt worden ist, weil die Gesamtliste bei der ersten Erstellung zu groß wurde, wird, wie in anderen Städten auch, in Zukunft in Stadtteile aufgeteilt werden. Dies übernehme ich gerne. Gruß, — Elvaube?!12:38, 7. Jan. 2015 (CET)
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 :)
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.
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)
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf13 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Bugfix) Magische Links (RFC, PMID und ISBN) werden nicht länger als Teil eines Wortes erkannt (Task 67278, Gerrit:133650)
(Bugfix) Unverlinkte Dateieinbindungen erhalten jetzt ihre Beschreibung als Tooltip (Task 23454, Gerrit:153353)
(Softwareneuheit) Dateien, die die maximale Bildauflösung überschreiten, zeigen jetzt eine eigene Fehlermeldung ("Datei mit Abmessungen größer als X MP") anstatt eines allgemeinen Fehlers ("Ungültige Thumbnail-Parameter") (gerrit:142046).
(Softwareneuheit) Für Benutzer der mobilen Ansicht steht eine optimierte Version der Spezialseite Einstellungen zur Verfügung, die eine einfachere Navigation (ohne Tabs) ermöglicht (Gerrit:178756).
Für Programmierer
(JavaScript) mw.loader: Guard against Object.prototype keys as module names (Gerrit:178002)
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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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [4]
The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [5][6][7]
The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [8]
Future changes
You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [9]
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
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf14 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Werden mit dem Hochladeassistenten Bilder von Flickr nach Commons gespeichert, erfolgt kein automatisches Flickr-Review mehr (Gerrit:158887).
(JavaScript)ACHTUNG! Direktzugriffe auf die globalen Variablen wie etwa wgTitle statt über mw.config.get("Name") werden jetzt mit einer Warnmeldung versehen. (Gerrit:133162) Skripte im Bestand sollten nach nunmehr vier Jahren Umstellungszeit endgültig aktualisiert werden; siehe auch sonst WP:JS/V. Direktzugriff, wie vor Februar 2011 (MW 1.17) einmal üblich, wird irgendwann ein absehbares Ende finden; mutmaßlich mit MW 1.26 oder MW 1.27.
(Missbrauchsfilter) Für die Programmierung des Missbrauchsfilters steht die neue Variable file_size zur Verfügung. Sie enthält die Dateigröße hochgeladener Dateien in Byte (Gerrit:183430)
(JavaScript) Set wgFileExtensions only on Upload instead of site-wide (Gerrit:181090)
(API) Add applicable protection types to the prop=info API. Disabled by default, enabled with inprop=protections, returned as 'restrictiontypes', also for non-existing titles (Gerrit:181875)
(API) Include log id in api error response (Gerrit:181940)
(API) Add page properties to action=expandtemplates output. This allows for retrieving properties set by double-brace magic words such as {{DEFAULTSORT:}}. (Task 78737, Gerrit:181442)
(JavaScript) Update jquery.ui Vector theme to 1.9.2 (Gerrit:154024)
(JavaScript) Update jQuery from v1.11.1 to v1.11.2 (Gerrit:181134)
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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.[10][11]
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. [12]
Software changes this week
There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [13]
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Hallo Elvaube, irgendwie läuft die automatische Archivierung des Disk. des Ostfriesland-WikiProjekts nicht richtig. Die alten Beiräge werden nicht archiviert, obwohl sie länger als 90 Tage dort stehen. Und die letzten Beiträge wurden jetzt lange vor der Zeit archiviert. Wie kommt das? Gruß, --Wikiwal (Diskussion) 22:37, 20. Jan. 2015 (CET)
Ich misch mich mal ein, weil ich Euch alle beobachte ;-) Das war ich. Die Beiträge werden nun nach 30 Tagen archiviert, wenn sie mindestens einen signierten Beitrag haben. Vorher waren es 90 Tage und mindestens 2signierte Beiträge. Beim Rest verhindert - so ich das richtig sehe - der von Dir gesetzte Archivierungsbaustein die Autoarchivierung. Gruß --Matthias Süßen?!22:40, 20. Jan. 2015 (CET)
Und ich habe heute die Autoarchivierung verkürzt. Und der stehen Deine Bausteine, die ja nun eine Archivierung auf anderem Wege bewirken (nämlich nicht nach 30 Tagen, sondern heute oder morgen), im Wege. Ich habe keine Ahnung, ob ich das verständlich rüberbringen konnte. Wenn nich, tut es mir ehrlich leid. Das Problem wird so jedenfalls kaum mehr auftreten. Vorher musste immer jemand auf einen Beitrag reagieren, so das zwei Signaturen da waren, damit archiviert werden konnte. Das ist nun anders. Gruß --Matthias Süßen?!23:02, 20. Jan. 2015 (CET)
Sehr schön, dann kann ich ja unsere Diskussion hier auch ins Archiv packen. Viel Spaß übrigens denen die daran teilnehmen bei der Führung in der Landschaft. Gruß, — Elvaube?!22:07, 21. Jan. 2015 (CET)
Wikidata weekly summary #142
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
(Linkformat) Für das Handle-System http://hdl.handle.net/ ist jetzt auch ein Pseudo-Interwiki vorhanden; [[hdl:10.1000/182]] wird zu hdl:10.1000/182. Es wird bei der Zitation ähnlich einem Digital Object Identifier (DOI) benutzt; ist genauer gesagt sein Vater.
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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. [14]
This week
There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [15]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [18]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [19]
You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [20][21]
Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
Further work on header section redesign
Tweaks to the sitelink section
Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
(Softwareneuheit) Für Programmierer: Es wird im HTTP-Header das neue Feld X-Analytics mit Informationen zur Internetverbindung erzeugt. Aufschlüsselung im Wikitech-Wiki unter X-Analytics.
(Test) Auf drei Testwikis steht die Funktionalität einer globalen Benutzerseite zur Verfügung. Das Testwiki dient als zentrales Wiki, Test2Wiki und TestWikidata sind die „ferngesteuerten“ Wikis in Bezug auf die Benutzerseite. Auf diesen Benutzerseiten wird der Inhalt des zentralen Wikis dargestellt, aber nur, wenn die lokale Seite nicht vorhanden ist. Lokaler Inhalt hat also immer Vorrang in der Darstellung.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf15 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [23]
UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [24]
All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [25]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [26][27][28]
You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [29][30]
It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [31]
You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [32]
In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [33]
The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
Fixed editing of qualifiers
Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf16 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
(Softwareneuheit) Die durch Eingabefelder erzeugten Schaltflächen benutzen nun das standardisierte Design für MediaWiki-Buttons.
(Softwareneuheit – nur Administratoren)Markierungen können ab sofort jederzeit hinzugefügt/entfernt werden. Dies wird im Markierungsverwaltungs-Logbuch vermerkt. Anmerkung des Reporters: Seit dem 17. Dezember 2014 werden keine Lokalisierungen mehr automatisch aktualisiert, siehe Task 85790. (Task 20670, Gerrit:181958)
(CodeEditor) Der CodeEditor zum Bearbeiten von CSS- und JS-Seiten wurde aktualisiert. Behoben ist u.a. eine Verzögerung beim Drag&Drop (Task 62432, Gerrit:144780)
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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 has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [37]
In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [38]
The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [39]
Meetings
The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [40]
You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [41]
You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [42]
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Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.
(Softwareneuheit) Globale Benutzerseiten wurden aktiviert. Als zentrale Seite gilt die eigene Benutzerseite auf Meta. Sie wird angezeigt, wenn keine lokale Benutzerseite existiert. Benutzer, die viele lokale Benutzerseiten angelegt haben und diese nun gelöscht haben möchten, können den Synchbot mit der Löschung der Seiten beauftragen (Hilfeseite, Task 72576, gerrit:190691)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [47]
It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [48]
Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [49]
Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [50]
Meetings
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [51]
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.
(Wikidata) Wikibooks wurde jetzt in Wikidata aufgenommen.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf18 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Tabellen der Klasse „wikitable“ haben einen größeren Zellinnenabstand erhalten. (Gerrit:188311)
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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
A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [52]
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [53][54]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [55][56][57][58]
The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [59]
The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [60]
Meetings
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [61]
Future changes
You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [62]
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)
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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
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:
Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:14, 2. Mär. 2015 (CET)
Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf19 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Beim Schweben mit der Maus über Abschnittsüberschriften erscheint am linken Rand das Zeichen „§“. Darunter verbirgt sich der Link auf den Abschnitt. Der Link auf den konkreten Abschnitt kann dann einfach mit rechtem Mausklick und „Link kopieren“ (Text abhängig vom Browser) kopiert werden (Task 18691, Gerrit:186332).
(Softwareneuheit) In Vorbereitung auf die Benutzerkontenglobalisierung: Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed zeigt eine Liste aller Benutzer, die umbenannt werden. Aktuell ist die Liste noch leer (Task 76774, Gerrit:193969).
(Softwareneuheit) Die Suchen-und-Ersetzen-Funktion des Wikieditors kann nun auch mit dem IE 11 verwendet werden (Task 88875, Gerrit:191698).
Für Programmierer
(API) Title-part parameters will no longer silently break on the '#' character (Task 38358, Gerrit:191889)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [63][64]
VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [65][66][67]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [68][69]
The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [70][71]
You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [72][73]
You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [74][75]
If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.
Meetings
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [76]
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf20 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Programmierer
(API) Properly handle limit and continuation for generator=prefixsearch (Task 91503, Gerrit:194330).
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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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [79]
It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [81][82]
Problems
Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [83][84]
You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [85][86]
Meetings
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [87][88]
You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [89]
„Hier trifft sich die Wikipedia-Community und tut Dinge“
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Wikipedia-Community - das bist auch Du, und das Lokal K ist auch Dein Raum, um Ideen rund um Wikipedia zu planen, diskutieren und umzusetzen. Um Dich auf Ideen zu bringen, komm doch einfach am Sonntag, den 26. April 2015 nach Köln-Ehrenfeld und mach mit:
Du hast etwas, was Du immer schon mal für Wikipedia fotografieren oder filmen wolltest ?
Du wolltest immer schon wissen, wie bestimmte Dinge in der Wikipedia funktionieren ?
Du hast ein Projekt im Kopf und suchst dafür Raum und Mitstreiter?
Du hast die Nase voll von der Wikipedia und willst Dich mal auskotzen?
Du hast eine ganz andere Idee (...)?
Die Tür ist ab 11.00 Uhr offen in der Hackländerstr. 2, siehe Anfahrt. Wenn Du magst, kannst Du Dich anmelden, komm aber auch gern spontan vorbei.
Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
(Softwareumstellung) Die Anzahl der in Hilfe:Syntaxhighlight unterstützten Sprachen wurde aus Perfomancegründen um Programmiersprachen reduziert, die nie verwendet wurden (Gerrit:197449).
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf21 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Programmierer
(API) Browser should clear cache for API responses. By default we send "private, must-revalidate, max-age=0" for regular logged-in wiki viewing. This changes API responses to match (Task 74480, Gerrit:194208).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [91]
VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [92][93][94]
When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [95]
Meetings
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [96]
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Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in February 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf22 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [97]
You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [98][99][100]
All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [101]
You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [102]
VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [103]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [104]
You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [105]
You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [106]
You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [107]
VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [108][109][110][111]
You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf23 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Die neue Systemnachricht MediaWiki:Editnotice-notext – standardmäßig leer – steht zur Verfügung, um Text oberhalb des Bearbeitungsfensters anzuzeigen, falls kein speziellerer Bearbeitungshinweis (Liste) definiert ist (Task 91715, Gerrit:196466).
(Softwareneuheit) Einzelnachweislinks werden beim Klick darauf mit blauem Hintergrund hervorgehoben – und umgekehrt (Task 10303, Gerrit:196172).
Für Programmierer
(JavaScript) Die neue Variable wgEditMessage steht zur Verfügung. Laut Doku: The name of the message used to for the title of EditPage. Used by Live preview to update document.title and #firstHeading with a new displaytitle.
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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 join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [113]
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [123]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [124][125]
You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [126]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [127]
We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.25wmf24 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Bugfix) Bei Benutzerumbenennungen wird jetzt der Ziel-Benutzer im Dankeschön-Logbuch mit umbenannt. Wie das bei bereits geschehenen Umbenennungen gehandhabt wird, ist unbekannt. (Task 78575, Gerrit:200726, Gerrit:200727).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [133][134]
All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [135]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hallo EierlegendeWollmilchsau, natürlich gibt es hier einen Grund für die Änderung der Einzelnachweise. Es stimmt, dass alle drei Einzelnachweise ein Thema behandeln, jedoch handelt es sich auch um drei unterschiedlich Quellen, die somit getrennt voneinander dargestellt werden. Dies wird beim Geburtstag des Piloten ähnlich behandelt. Gruß,
Mal das verlinkte Beispiel angesehen? Das sind auch zwei verschiedene Quellen, die zusammen gefasst werden. Wie soll denn sinnvoll die gleiche Quelle den gleichen Satz belegen, so dass eine drei- oder vierfach-Referenzkette bei rauskommt? Das ist doch völlig realitätsfremd. Nur weil es drei Quellen sind, brauchen die doch nicht zwingend alle drei eine Nummer für sich (eben weil sie den gleichen Satz belegen und sonst nix im Text). -- Es grüßt die Eierlegende Wollmilchsau16:04, 4. Apr. 2015 (CEST)
The Signpost: 15 April 2015
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
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Du hast sicher übersehen, daß Deine Korrektur problematisch ist, bitte beachte dazu die ausführliche Debatte und arbeite ggf. an einem Konsens in Deinem Sinne zwischen beiden Artikeln. Vielen Dank im Voraus aus dem --Eloquenzministerium (Diskussion) 18:05, 3. Apr. 2015 (CEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #154
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
Expanded our set of automated browser tests
Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
Continued work on our RDF generator
Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf1 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
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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
There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [136]
VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [137]
You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [138]
If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [139]
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [141][142][143]
If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [144]
You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [145]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [146][147]
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Hallo Elvaube,
dies ist eine kleine Erinnerung an unseren Aktionstag im Kölner Lokal K, zu dem wir Dich ganz herzlich einladen. Wir wollen versuchen, noch mehr Menschen aus der Community für die Möglichkeiten dieses Real-Live-Raums zu begeistern. Wenn Du magst, trag Dich doch in die Teilnahmeliste ein, oder schau einfach spontan vorbei, wir würden uns freuen!
PS. Sorry für die erneute Rundmail, du bekommst diese Nachricht, weil Deine Benutzerseite in einer der Kategorien „Benutzer aus (Köln/Umland)“ ist. Es ist ganz bestimmt die letzte Mail für diesen Aktionstag ;-)
There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
Development
On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
More work on RDF output and the query service
Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
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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
All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [148][149]
You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [150]
There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [151]
You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [152]
Problems
Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [153]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [154]
You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [155]
You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [156]
You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [157]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf2 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Auf den Seiteninformationen (Beispiel) wird angezeigt, wann eine Seitensperre ausläuft (Task 94129, Gerrit:200828).
(JavaScript) Die veralteten Importfunktionen importScriptURI/importStylesheetURI geben Warnungen in der Browserkonsole aus, wenn sie verwendet werden. (Task 95964, Gerrit:203293, Gerrit:206078). Das bedeutet für die persönlichen JavaScript-Anpassungen, dass sie nun allmählich gemäß JS/Obsolet aktualisiert werden müssten, nachdem bereits seit Februar 2011 das Nachfolgesystem angeboten wird. Dies war zunächst auch für importScript/importStylesheet vorgesehen; auch dafür wäre Benutzer-JS allmählich zu modernisieren, da ein Ende der Unterstützung absehbar ist. Einen glücklichen Ersatz gibt es hier aber einstweilen nicht.
Support request with team editing experiment project
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Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.
We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf3 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Bugfix) Die Kategorieinformationen auf den Seiteninformation von Kategorien (Beispiel) wurde korrigiert und erweitert (Gerrit:204557).
(Softwareneuheit) Über die Versionsgeschichte können pro Version Markierungen gesetzt oder entfernt werden (Gerrit:203061).
(Softwareneuheit) Die Anzeige von Markierungen in der Versionsgeschichte kann unterdrückt werden, indem die zugehörige Systemnachricht mittels „-“ deaktiviert wird (Hier relevantes Beispiel: MediaWiki:Tag-HHVM, Gerrit:172098).
(API) list=logevents tries to return both the creating user's and the created user's ids as "userid" (Task 73020, Gerrit:183315)
(Softwareneuheit) Die vor einigen Tagen eingeführten Elemente um Markierungen zu setzen oder entfernen werden in der Versionsgeschichte nur noch angezeigt, wenn es lokale Markierungen gibt, die auch gesetzt oder entfernt werden können (Task 97773, Gerrit:208109).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [159][160]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [161]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [163]
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)
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Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language.
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more 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:
MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)
We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at Global our new coordinator signup.
A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
Continued working on RDF export
More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf4 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [164][165][166]
You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [167]
The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [168][169]
Problems
There was a problem that caused slow editing. [170]
Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [171]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [172][173]
You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [174]
When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [175]
When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [176]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf5 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
(API) Increase parity between api search and on-wiki search. The on wiki search indicates more information than is currently available by api. Adds two more props to improve parity (Gerrit:207628).
Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [177]
You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [178]
The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [179]
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf6 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Neu registrierte Benutzernamen dürfen keinen : mehr im Namen haben, um Konflikte mit Namensräumen und Interwikilinks zu verhindern. Bestehende Benutzernamen mit einem : behalten ihren Benutzernamen (Task 98757, Gerrit:210257).
Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
The special page to query for badges is within reach.
A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [184]
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf7 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Programmierer
(API) API Import: Die when namespace and rootpage is set (Gerrit:210945)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [188]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [189]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [190][191]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [192]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf8 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Programmierer
(JavaScript) mediawiki.language: Respect $wgTranslateNumerals in convertNumber(). Exposes the $wgTranslateNumerals variable via mw.config (Task 72109, Gerrit:164730).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [193][194]
If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [195]
When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [196]
The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [197]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
(Softwareneuheit) Für Programmierer wurde die neue Spezialseite Spezial:API-Funktionsverwendung(ApiFeatureUsage) freigeschaltet.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf9 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Wird ein Vorlagenargument mehrfach verwendet, erfolgt eine Fehlermeldung in der Vorschau: Warnung: Seitenname ruft Vorlage:Vorlagenname mit mehr als einem Wert für den Parameter „1“ auf. Nur der letzte angegebene Wert wird verwendet. Wird trotz der Warnung gespeichert, wird die Seite - wie bisher - in die Wartungskategorie Wikipedia:Doppelter Parameter in Vorlageneinbindung einsortiert (Task 85352, Gerrit:168607).
Für Programmierer
(JavaScript) content: Recognise .json as JsonContent in User and MediaWiki namespace (Task 76554, Gerrit:177172)
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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
Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [200]
Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [201]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more 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:
Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)
New French-Language Branch!
Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).
We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
(Softwareneuheit) Für Programmierer wurde die neue Spezialseite Spezial:API-Funktionsverwendung(ApiFeatureUsage) freigeschaltet.
(Softwareumstellung) Alle bisher noch nicht umgestellten WMF-Wikis inkl. der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia wurden auf Version 1.26wmf9 umgestellt. Dadurch ergeben sich folgende Änderungen:
Für Jedermann
(Softwareneuheit) Wird ein Vorlagenargument mehrfach verwendet, erfolgt eine Fehlermeldung in der Vorschau: Warnung: Seitenname ruft Vorlage:Vorlagenname mit mehr als einem Wert für den Parameter „1“ auf. Nur der letzte angegebene Wert wird verwendet. Wird trotz der Warnung gespeichert, wird die Seite – wie bisher – in die Wartungskategorie Wikipedia:Doppelter Parameter in Vorlageneinbindung einsortiert (Task 85352, Gerrit:168607).
Für Programmierer
(JavaScript) content: Recognise .json as JsonContent in User and MediaWiki namespace (Task 76554, Gerrit:177172)
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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
Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [207][208]
You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [209]
Problems
On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [210][211][212]
Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [216][217][218]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [221]
The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [222][223][224]
You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [225]
Problems
JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [226]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [227]
When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [228]
If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [229]
Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [230]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [231]
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