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The Signpost: 31 December 2012
- From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
- In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
- Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes
- Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
- Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
- WikiProject report: New Year, New York
- Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
Wikidata weekly summary #39
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updates for selenium testenvironments (browsers, ruby, selenium-tools)
- Extended tests for statements user interface
- Refactored snakview user interface to handle other property-snak types than PropertyValueSnak
- Layout improvements in the user interface
- Several minor bugfixes in the user interface
- Updated Vagrant for Wikidata
- More work on AbuseFilter
- Deployed new version of Wikibase and MediaWiki core to wikidata.org and test2.wikipedia (bugfixes - all Wikibase changes here)
- Fix for bug 43595 which was seen on Wednesday during attempted deployment of the wmf7 version of MediaWiki core. Thanks Marius!
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- 29C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’ve reached item ID 2.000.000
- You can now enable the SitelinkCheck gadget in your preferences that makes it easier to check if a certain link is already in use in an existing item
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on prototypes for parsing time and coordinates
- Help translate the client extension (especially to Hungarian in light of the upcoming deployment)
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 07 January 2013
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
- News and notes: 2012—the big year
- Featured content: Featured content in review
- Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013
Wikidata weekly summary #40
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Bene* developed a new tool to show existing or missing items for a given Wikipedia category
- Selenium test-groups for (non)experimental features (bugzilla:43828)
- Notification for IP edits that IP will be logged (bugzilla:42954)
- Verified fix & added Selenium tests for broken error-reporting on label/description uniqueness constraint (bugzilla:43301)
- Label-edit-button links to Special:SetLabel when JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:43814)
- Updated PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Selenium, etc.. on internal test server and enabled APC + memcached
- Work on AbuseFilter to make it work with Wikidata content (bugzilla:42064)
- Implemented length constraint for labels, descriptions and aliases (configurable with a default of 2500 UTF8 characters)
- Implementing a new mechanism for dispatching change notifications to client wikis
- Worked more on how Wikidata changes are handled in the client watchlist (bugzilla:43124)
- Some work went into using Solr for the search. Still very simple
- Prepared improvements to our puppet files on labs
- Worked on statements UI (snaktypes/references)
- Fixed bugs in UI event handling of widgets
- Put EntityId parsing code into a dedicated class
- Finished EntityDiff cleanup
- Discussions/Press
- Reworked inclusion syntax completely 1 2
- Updates to time and space model
- Is there a need for bureaucrats?
- Planned improvement to the search field
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia is still planned for Monday (Jan 14th)
- Jens writes a bit about Wikidata’s mascots
- Open Tasks for You
- Give feedback on inclusion syntax draft version 3, the updated time and space model and the plans for improving the search field
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 14 January 2013
- Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
- News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme
- WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
- Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style; accessibility and equality
- Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
- Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
- Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
- Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
Wikidata weekly summary #41
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia \o/
- We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
- Refactored sites code to improve design
- Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
- Added lots of new Selenium tests
- Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
- Implemented new change dispatcher script
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
- Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
- Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
- Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
- Updated the Wikidata Vagrant development machine
- Improved the setup via puppet on Labs
- Discussions/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch
- There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org
- Community Portal got a rework
- Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
- Open Tasks for You
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
- Hack on one of these
The Signpost: 21 January 2013
- News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
- WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
- Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
- Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
- Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success
Wikidata weekly summary #42
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Updated demo system
- Improved design of sites code in core
- Fixed SQLite compatibility
- Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
- Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
- Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
- Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
- Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
- More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
- AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
- The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
- Initial implementation of {{#property}} parser function for the client
- Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
- Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
- Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- upcoming: talk about MediaWiki groups
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reconfirmation of temporary admins
- Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
- Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
- Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly
- Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
- Project about paid editing that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
翻译通知：Fundraising 2012/Translation/Drop down banner
Hello Tommyang,
You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to 简体中文和中文 on Meta. The page Fundraising 2012/Translation/Drop down banner is available for translation. You can translate it here:
这个页面有高重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-02-08。
Testing for the 2012/13 international fundraiser will be picking back up again towards the end of January as part of the Foundations new all-year round fundraising strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro?banner=B12_5C_Control_BU
This request will help us use a new style banner that we want to test in the top twenty/thirty languages.
If you have any question you can send an email to jseddonwikimedia.org or go to my user talk page:
Thank you all for your ongoing support :)Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 17:03, 28 January 2013 (UTC)翻译通知：Wikimedia Highlights, December 2012
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这个页面有中重要度。
Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the most important Wikimedia Foundation activities, MediaWiki development work and other international Wikimedia news from last month. Completed translations will be announced on Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca and project village pumps.
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Meta translation coordinators, 08:05, 29 January 2013 (UTC)The Signpost: 28 January 2013
- In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention
- Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
- WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess
- Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
- News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
- Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
- Arbitration report: Doncram continues
- Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems