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Wikidata weekly summary #135

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

• 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 phabricator: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 mw: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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

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31		WWMT (talk)						Add sources
7		Klampenborg Station (talk)						Add sources
1,954		Iliad (talk)						Add sources
24		WBTW (talk)						Add sources
9		KQCW-DT (talk)						Add sources
5		Vestbanen (S-tog) (talk)						Add sources
99		Salisbury University (talk)						Cleanup
84		Mount Royal University (talk)						Cleanup
165		Ancient Greek warfare (talk)						Cleanup
35		KREM (TV) (talk)						Expand
10		KJTL (talk)						Expand
10		KCIT (talk)						Expand
40		WOOD-TV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
21		Kanan Makiya (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
21		WSAV-TV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
242		Heinrich Schliemann (talk)						Merge
38		WKYT-TV (talk)						Merge
28		Handicapism (talk)						Merge
6		Nu Kappa Epsilon (talk)						Wikify
4		Sam Beard (talk)						Wikify
123		Continuity (fiction) (talk)						Wikify
4		Lightgraff (lightgraff art) (talk)						Orphan
2		Angolanidade (talk)						Orphan
1		Aptyuray (talk)						Orphan
14		Lloyd Williams (rugby union player born 1989) (talk)						Stub
3		KDYS-LD (talk)						Stub
3		John Lloyd (rugby coach) (talk)						Stub
7		Cinaethon of Sparta (talk)						Stub
18		Berufsverbot (talk)						Stub
13		Azadeh Moaveni (talk)						Stub

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• 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

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

• 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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [1]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [2]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [3]

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). [4]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [5]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [6] [7]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [8] [9] [10]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [11] [12]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [13]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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29		Thunderbolt siren (talk)						Add sources
3		Ballerup station (talk)						Add sources
5		Svanemøllen station (talk)						Add sources
91		Air horn (talk)						Add sources
71		The Sniper (story) (talk)						Add sources
26		KONG (TV) (talk)						Add sources
4,723		George Clooney (talk)						Cleanup
437		Phalanx (talk)						Cleanup
57		LIN Media (talk)						Cleanup
29		Richard Marsland (talk)						Expand
1,577		Jason Derulo (talk)						Expand
1,014		Strawberry (talk)						Expand
932		CeeLo Green (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
16		Hungarophobia (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
41		Arab League–Iran relations (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
520		MCI Inc. (talk)						Merge
64		Anti-fat bias (talk)						Merge
91		Weightism (talk)						Merge
159		Sinclair Broadcast Group (talk)						Wikify
1		George C. Lindsay (talk)						Wikify
56		Randolph College (talk)						Wikify
1		Bryn Griffiths (talk)						Orphan
1		Lyndon Bateman (talk)						Orphan
3		6fusion (talk)						Orphan
4		Michael Bowden (Australian rules footballer) (talk)						Stub
10		Tavis Knoyle (talk)						Stub
4		Rhys Jones (rugby player) (talk)						Stub
3		KPMT-LP (talk)						Stub
4		David Bishop (rugby player born 1983) (talk)						Stub
10		Eumelus of Corinth (talk)						Stub

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• 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.

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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

• 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 (mw: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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:01, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

• 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. [14]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [15]
• 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). [16]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+ForCmd+F. [17]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [18]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [19]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [20] [21]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [22] [23]

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16:44, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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7		WGGB-DT2 (talk)						Add sources
5		F (S-train) (talk)						Add sources
31		KVUE (talk)						Add sources
44		Anti-frogman techniques (talk)						Add sources
5		Valby station (talk)						Add sources
8		Remember Me This Way (film) (talk)						Add sources
5,263		Jimmy Fallon (talk)						Cleanup
977		Sasha Pieterse (talk)						Cleanup
24		KSEE (talk)						Cleanup
24		KXLY-TV (talk)						Expand
30		Anti-Sovietism (talk)						Expand
1,638		BCS National Championship Game (talk)						Expand
43		Shadism (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
40		WPTZ (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
157		Samuel Butler (novelist) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
32		Federal Signal Corporation (talk)						Merge
69		Ethnocide (talk)						Merge
402		Software engineer (talk)						Merge
11		KWBA-TV (talk)						Wikify
1,902		Iran hostage crisis (talk)						Wikify
56		Walt Coleman (talk)						Wikify
1		Ryan Prosser (talk)						Orphan
2		Arizona Rubber (talk)						Orphan
1		Aleksandr Trufanov (talk)						Orphan
10		No Ordinary Girl (talk)						Stub
5		Jon Petrie (talk)						Stub
7		Nigel Davies (rugby player) (talk)						Stub
7		Sonny Parker (rugby union) (talk)						Stub
7		Graeme Morrison (talk)						Stub
3		KHBA-LD (talk)						Stub

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• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

• Traffic report: A December Lull

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

• 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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

• 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. [24]

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. [25]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [26]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [27]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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66		WTTG (talk)						Add sources
37		KWGN-TV (talk)						Add sources
57		Therapeutic food (talk)						Add sources
954		General Certificate of Secondary Education (talk)						Add sources
1,165		Information and communications technology (talk)						Add sources
3		Danshøj station (talk)						Add sources
24		KVII-TV (talk)						Cleanup
234		Compressed air (talk)						Cleanup
8		Seru Rabeni (talk)						Cleanup
56		Sens (talk)						Expand
1,076		KBTV-TV (talk)						Expand
18		WPMI-TV (talk)						Expand
24		WOTV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
15		WXSP-CD (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
5		KFIZ-TV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
531		Low-carbohydrate diet (talk)						Merge
516		Kellogg's (talk)						Merge
204		News Corp Australia (talk)						Merge
5		KISA-LD (talk)						Wikify
6		Rory Sutherland (rugby union) (talk)						Wikify
70		Audism (talk)						Wikify
2		Philip Fitzgerald (talk)						Orphan
1		Abidinpaşa (talk)						Orphan
2		Alcyonidium hirsutum (talk)						Orphan
6		Gareth John Williams (talk)						Stub
9		Toni Vastić (talk)						Stub
3		Hefin O'Hare (talk)						Stub
6		Matthew Jones (rugby player) (talk)						Stub
5		Lloyd Burns (talk)						Stub
14		Paul James (rugby union) (talk)						Stub

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• 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

• There are no technical changes this week.

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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7		WWMT-DT2 (talk)						Add sources
184		Magnetic tape data storage (talk)						Add sources
6		B (S-train) (talk)						Add sources
7		Hillerød station (talk)						Add sources
572		Big Time Rush (band) (talk)						Add sources
1,378		KRXI-TV (talk)						Add sources
24		KWTX-TV (talk)						Cleanup
10		Radiotelevisione svizzera (talk)						Cleanup
101		Anti-Turkism (talk)						Cleanup
18		KOLR (talk)						Expand
338		Men who have sex with men blood donor controversy (talk)						Expand
1,033		Bat (talk)						Expand
60		WGAL (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
17		KVAL-TV (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
28		Sanctions against Iranian scientists (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
19		Multiplex (television) (talk)						Merge
29		Disability hate crime (talk)						Merge
86		Race war (talk)						Merge
38		KSBW (talk)						Wikify
79		Lionel Trilling (talk)						Wikify
194		Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī (talk)						Wikify
1		Regardt Dreyer (talk)						Orphan
2		Ana Sacerdote (talk)						Orphan
1		Athanasius Shumliansky (talk)						Orphan
11		WNOX (talk)						Stub
4		WBII-CD (talk)						Stub
127		Amber Montana (talk)						Stub
3		KIDQ-LP (talk)						Stub
5		Jonathan Humphreys (talk)						Stub
8		Capture of Oechalia (talk)						Stub