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Wikidata weekly summary #37
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- Development
- Deployed fix for bugzilla:42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox
- Updated demo system
- Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities
- Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities
- Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI
- Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI
- Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI
- Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client
- Bug fixes in the client
- Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests
- Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration
- Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims
- Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages
- Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes
- Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open Tasks for You
- Give input to the representing values discussion
- Hack on one of these
Have a great holiday season!
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (December 2012)
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How to Help WikiProject NASCAR
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Article of the month – Daytona International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, Grand-Am and Motocross. The track features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5 miles (4.0 km) high speed tri-oval, a 3.56 miles (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95 miles (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a .25 miles (0.40 km) karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation. The track was built in 1958 by NASCAR founder William France Sr. to host racing that was being held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars. Lights were installed around the track in 1998, and today it is the third largest single lit outdoor sports facility. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004, and the track repaved in 1978 and 2010. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Newsletter contributers: Nascar1996 and The Bushranger |
This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:45, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #38
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- Development
- Some of us unwrapped gifts (-:
- Started working on supporting different kinds of Snaks in the user interface
- Fixing support for PostgreSQL in core, which was broken with introduction of the sites stuff
- Code reviewing of changes in MediaWiki core
- Adding watchlist filter in client for Wikidata changes
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- right now: 29C3
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #39
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- 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
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My name is not Bud, you can take your whoa and shove it where the sun don't shine and I added two reliable sources, making removal of that tag perfectly legit. Have some respect, ya fukkin jerk! Gtwfan52 (talk) 23:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
- You have no reason to refer to any user as "Bud", or to say whoa like you are some sort of rulemaker. As you were the one that started the incivility with your rude edit summary, I will be removing your warning, and we can finish this discussion civilly at AfD. You managed to hit two of my hot buttons in the space of three words. You can ask just about anyone, I am not easy to anger. I apologize for my outburst and ask that you show more respect in your edit summaries in the future. Gtwfan52 (talk) 00:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- I agree to disagree. I think the two references I added, which took me two minutes to find, are plenty to meet GNG. No, it won't meet NMUSIC, but is a YouTube artist really a musician? I am not a real big fan of the whole YouTube thing, and this is the first time I have ever supported a YouTube-type artist. Two reasons---This kid has got talent...The Killer Queen vid in the Huffington ref was solid work, both in music and video. And the article has been around almost three years already....that somewhat speaks to its utility to Wikipedia. On the civility subject again, I really do apologize...that was quite unlike me. Might I suggest that you keep in mind the lack of visual clues in internet communications and try to stick to less colloquial language to avoid situations like these? I can't know that "Bud" is a normal part of your lexicon and I daresay that there are many people who, without visual clues to the contrary, might take offense at being addressed by a term normally reserved for horses. Gtwfan52 (talk) 00:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- You have no reason to refer to any user as "Bud", or to say whoa like you are some sort of rulemaker. As you were the one that started the incivility with your rude edit summary, I will be removing your warning, and we can finish this discussion civilly at AfD. You managed to hit two of my hot buttons in the space of three words. You can ask just about anyone, I am not easy to anger. I apologize for my outburst and ask that you show more respect in your edit summaries in the future. Gtwfan52 (talk) 00:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #40
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- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #41
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- 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
Lee Ann Womack
Thanks for the friendly message! In the little spare time I have, I've been trying to clean country artists' discographies. I kept passing by Lee Ann Womack's and it just looked disgusting, so I made it my new project! I do appreciate your friendly message, and if you work a lot with country articles, then I guess I'll see ya around! ChrisTofu11961 (talk) 20:53, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #42
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- 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
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (January 2013)
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How to Help WikiProject NASCAR
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Article of the month – Harley J. Earl Trophy, a Good Article
The Harley J. Earl Trophy is the trophy presented to the winner of the premier, and season-opening, event of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the Daytona 500. It is named after influential automobile designer Harley Earl, who served as the second commissioner of NASCAR. Earl has been known as the so-called "father of the Corvette" and designer of the Firebird I prototype that adorns the trophy. The trophy is kept on display at the Daytona International Speedway, while a small replica is given to each Daytona 500 winner. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Newsletter contributers: Nascar1996 and The Bushranger |
This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 05:01, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
This edit...
Here...Thanks! It is much appreciated and went unnoticed for quite a while! Thanks and have a nice day ツ Jenova20 (email) 09:30, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Nice work! Keep it up! Pun intended =P... Thanks ツ Jenova20 (email) 23:58, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #43
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- Development
- Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1] [2] [3])
- Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
- Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
- Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
- Working on property parser function for the client
- Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
- Resumed work on linked data interface
- References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
- Several minor user interface fixes
- Styling of the user interface for statements
- Selenium tests for references
- Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
- Worked on puppet
- Discussions/Press
- Abuse filter guidelines
- Policy on properties
- First external tool for output in RDF: [4] and [5]
- Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)
- Events
- We’ve set the date for the next office hours
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
- Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
- Open Tasks for You
- Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #44
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- Development
- Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done - see it live for example here, here and here
- Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
- Started work on query definitions
- Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
- Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
- Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
- More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
- Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
- New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
- JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
- Repaired and updated the demo system
- Resumed work on Linked Data interface
- Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
- There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
- Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
- Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
- Discussions/Press
- Signpost
- Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
- Events
- FOSDEM
- upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
- List of existing properties and their usage
- List of new proposed properties
- Open Tasks for You
- d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #45
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- Development
- Deployment to English Wikipedia
- Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
- Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
- Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
- Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
- Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
- Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
- Started with valueview refactoring
- Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
- Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
- Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
- Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
- Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
- More work on Lua-based templates for entities
- Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
- Created query object
- Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
- Use of ID to directly address an item or property
- Search should give more of the complete matches now
- Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
- More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
- Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
- Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
- Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
- Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
- New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
- Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
- Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
- Ability to add items to claims by their ID
- Better handling of deleted properties
- More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
- We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
- Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
- Check out a well-done item
- Open Tasks for You
- Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
- Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Hack on one these
RE: Harlem Shake (song)
Thank you for your comment at Talk:Harlem_Shake_(song)#Ownership_of_the_article. Can you please comment on the issue further, because the other editor in question hasnt responded to my explainations in either case when we reverted each other. I keep citing Wikipedia guidelines, and he keeps introducing good-faith, but unconstructive edits. Dan56 (talk) 00:59, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Appreciate your soliciting for opinions, but I dont think Wikiproject talk pages are supposed to be used for that, as it says on the talk page header "For disputes, seek dispute resolution". I've already asked a couple of editors who are experienced in writing and reviewing articles, Status and J Mibulrn (although the latter seems to be offline). I might ask another. Dan56 (talk) 09:35, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Good morning. :I'm sure it's fine, I've done it and have seen others do it before. The article is in the scope of the WikiProject and broadly asking is neutral, I would personally refrain from asking specific editors because this could be viewed as canvassing. (but that's just me) Cheers NYSMy talk page 12:37, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Whoops!
Sorry [6], thanks for catching that. I shoulda checked. - eo (talk) 13:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- No problemo, you are very welcome sir. NYSMy talk page 13:36, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #46
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- Development
- Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
- Updated demo system
- Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
- Implemented first version of a string data type
- Worked on better error reporting from the API
- Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
- Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
- Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
- Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
- Worked on cleanup of local entity store
- Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
- Discussions/Press
- Wikidata development will continue in 2013
- Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
- RFC about the Wikidata API
- Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
- RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
- Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
- Events
- office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
- upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
- Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
- Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
- “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
- List of most used properties
- OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
- Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
- We’ve hit d:Q5000000
- Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (February 2013)
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Article of the month – 2010 Emory Healthcare 500, a new Good Article
The 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 5, 2010 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325 laps, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Tony Stewart, for the Stewart Haas Racing team. Carl Edwards finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, who started seventh, clinched third. Pole position driver Denny Hamlin maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Ryan Newman, who started in the second position remained behind him. Afterward, Newman became the leader. On lap 128, Hamlin had an engine failure, finishing forty-third. Later in the race Tony Stewart led a race high of seventy-five laps. Stewart retained the first position on a final restart to clinch his third win at Atlanta Motor Speedway. There were eight cautions and twenty-seven lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Tony Stewart's first win of the season and the thirty-eighth of his career. The result moved him up two spots to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 283 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and fourteen ahead of Carl Edwards. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two ahead of Toyota and sixty-six ahead of Ford, with eleven races remaining in the season. A total of 93,200 people attended the race, while 5.516 million watched it on television. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikidata weekly summary #47
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- Development
- Extended diff view to include references now
- Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
- Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
- Updated the demo system
- More work towards using Solr for our search
- More investigation and fixes of search issues
- Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
- Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
- Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
- A lot of bug fixing
- Events
- Wikipedia Day NYC
- upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
- upcoming: office hour (German)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
- Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
- Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
- d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
- The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
- The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
- Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
- Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
- A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
- We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
- Open Tasks for You
- Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
- Hack on one of these
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Wikidata weekly summary #48
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- Development
- More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
- Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
- don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
- use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
- preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
- Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
- More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
- Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
- Created initial QueryStore interface
- Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
- Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
- Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
- Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
- Improved handling of deleted properties
- Further work on replacement for current search box
- More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
- Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
- Discussions/Press
- Hacker News noticed we exist
- RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
- Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
- Events
- WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
- office hour in German
- upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
- upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1 \o/
- Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
- How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?
- More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
- Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
- Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
- New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
- Did you know?
- Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
- Wikidata is also on Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook and Google+
- There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Continue being awesome
Article Feedback deployment
Hey Nowyouseeme; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #49
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- Development
- Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
- More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
- More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
- Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
- bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
- bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
- Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
- Selenium tests for multiline references
- Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
- Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
- Selenium tests for language-table
- Implemented in-process caching for entities
- Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
- rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
- Improved error reports from the API
- Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
- Added a table of content to item pages
- Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
- Finished implementation of References-UI
- Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
- Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
- Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
- Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
- More work on RDF export
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- Bibliothek und Information
- 3rd Media Web Symposium
- upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
- upcoming: SMWCon
- Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
- We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
- Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: [7] [8]
- The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
- Someone sent the dev team a cake! <3
- Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
- We crossed item ID 7000000
- We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
- Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
- Reasonator got a few more goodies
- Did you know?
- If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
- Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
- Open Tasks for You
- Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Hack on one of these
Done.
Eh, I've seen the title without the caps in places as well and either way, there's songs like "TiK ToK" that do not retain their weird stylistic formats on Wikipedia, so the 'all-caps' should be no more than a small one-time mention if it must be brought up at all. The way I see it, it's just a clever, cutesy marketing strategy or something of that nature. It's not like they've capitalized the letters because they stand for something or anything like that anyway. CloversMallRat (talk) 17:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Chartbot
Bot is stopped. Investigating.—Kww(talk) 01:31, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
- Found it. Thanks for the help. It was in an error branch dealing with having a correct-looking chart URL that didn't verify as actually being on Billboard. That's why it was working on most files.—Kww(talk) 01:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #50
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- Development
- Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
- Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
- Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
- d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
- Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
- Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
- Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
- Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
- Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
- Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
- Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
- Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
- Support for multi-line references in diff view
- Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
- Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
- Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
- Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
- Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
- Wikidata trifft Archäologie
- SMWCon Spring NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
- Too many items with the same label and no description? Terminator helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000
- Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? WikidataStats can help
- d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
- Detailed list of bots
- Collecting information about creating a bot
- We’ve crossed Q8000000
- Did you know?
- When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look at d:Wikidata:Contribute
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (March 2013)
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Article of the month – Auto Club Speedway, a Good Article
Auto Club Speedway (formerly California Speedway) is a two-mile (3 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997. The track was also used for open wheel racing events until 2005. The racetrack is located near the former locations of Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway. The track is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and is the only track owned by ISC to have naming rights sold. The speedway is served by the nearby Interstate 10 and Interstate 15 freeways as well as a Metrolink station located behind the backstretch. Construction of the track, on the site of the former Kaiser Steel Mill, began in 1995 and was completed in late 1996. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 91,200 and 28 skyboxes. In 2006, a fanzone was added behind the main grandstand. Lights were added to the speedway in 2004 with the addition of a second annual NASCAR weekend. In 2011 and 2012 the track hosted only one NASCAR weekend. The IZOD Indycar Series returned to the track in 2012 with the season finale race (a 500 mile night race); it ran a 400 mile race from 2002–05 at the track. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikidata weekly summary #51
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- Development
- The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
- Worked on automatic summaries for statements
- Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
- Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
- Selenium tests for qualifiers
- Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
- Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
- Discussions/Press
- Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
- Proposal for a vandalism policy
- Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
- Should Wikidata have featured items?
- RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
- Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
- Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
- Events
- Newline 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
- Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
- Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
- We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
- We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
- In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
- We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
- Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
- Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
- The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
- Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
- Wikidata was added to wikipulse
- A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
- Did you know?
- If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
- Open Tasks for You
- See note at the end of this weekly summary
- Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
- Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
- Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
- Hack on one of these
Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)
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Can someone help with this file? A lot of us have tried to update Florida as you can see in the file history, but it won't appear. However if you view the full size of the image you can see Florida updated. NYSMy talk page 03:19, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Florida appears the same to me in both the thumbnail and the full version. Have you tried clearing your cache? m.o.p 03:29, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes. Florida also looks the same to me in the thumbnail and above the thumbnail on the file page (gray), but when I click the image and view full size it is blue, which doesn't match the current revision. Even if you revert to a revision where Florida is blue it remains gray in the current revision. NYSMy talk page 03:38, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Try viewing the file with a purge appended to it, like this: [9] Other than that, I can't really suggest anything - the image looks as it should to be in both thumbnail and full sizes. m.o.p 04:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Are you seeing Florida as gray or blue? It should be blue. NYSMy talk page 04:31, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- As gray. m.o.p 04:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Can you go to Commons and switch to a blue revision? NYSMy talk page 04:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- As gray. m.o.p 04:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Are you seeing Florida as gray or blue? It should be blue. NYSMy talk page 04:31, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Try viewing the file with a purge appended to it, like this: [9] Other than that, I can't really suggest anything - the image looks as it should to be in both thumbnail and full sizes. m.o.p 04:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes. Florida also looks the same to me in the thumbnail and above the thumbnail on the file page (gray), but when I click the image and view full size it is blue, which doesn't match the current revision. Even if you revert to a revision where Florida is blue it remains gray in the current revision. NYSMy talk page 03:38, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
So I tried and now it looks weird. It seems that certain resolutions of the file are updating while others remain stuck. I assume it's related to this recent bug - for now, your only recourse is to wait and see if our techs can iron things out. m.o.p 05:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks B NYSMy talk page 05:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- I assume it's the same issue as bugzilla:46976 but so far I miss information here which exact thumbnail (size!) the problem happens with in order to investigate. Feel free to add a comment with exact steps to reproduce to that bug report. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with this technical stuff, but right now the image is showing correctly at List_of_supporters_of_same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States#U.S._Senators, but when you click the image it is stuck at/showing the revision from 17:35, 2 April 2013. That's all I can really say. NYSMy talk page 01:22, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
- I assume it's the same issue as bugzilla:46976 but so far I miss information here which exact thumbnail (size!) the problem happens with in order to investigate. Feel free to add a comment with exact steps to reproduce to that bug report. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #52
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- Development
- The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
- Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
- Worked on improving recent changes code in client
- Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
- Implemented string formatter
- Discussions/Press
- Events
- upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
- There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
- There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
- We hit Q10000000
- A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
- Did you know?
- There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
- You can get database dumps to play with
- There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
- Open Tasks for You
- Hit a random item and add a missing source?
- Hack on one of these
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
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Wikidata weekly summary #53
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- Development
- Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
- Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
- Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
- Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
- Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
- Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
- Events/Press
- right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
- Discussions
- The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
- RfC about policy for translation admins
- We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
- Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
- There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
- If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
- There is a new user right: property creators
- There is now a page to request deletion of a property
- We now have Bureaucrats
- Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Help draft the next weekly summary
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
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Wikidata weekly summary #54
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- Development
- Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
- wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
- Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
- Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
- Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
- Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
- Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
- Work on the storage code for answering queries
- Events/Press
- GLAM-WIKI 2013
- upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
- upcoming: Opensource Treffen
- upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
- Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
- d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
- Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
- List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #55
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- Development
- Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
- Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
- Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
- Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
- Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
- Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
- Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
- Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
- Events/Press
- A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
- Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
- Office hour about references (log)
- Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
- OpensourceTreffen in Munich
- Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
- Discussions
- RfC about vandalism
- RfP for oversighters
- RfC about interproject links interface
- RfC about inactive administrators
- RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
- RfC about Kinship
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
- Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
- Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
- Page edits have passed 31 million.
- d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
- Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
- Did you know?
- Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
- Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
- Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
- Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of these
- Translate the Table of properties into your language
- Review a proposal for a qualifier property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.
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Article of the month – 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400, a Good Article
The 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 1, 2010 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps, it was the tenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kyle Busch for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Jeff Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started seventh, clinched third. Pole position driver Kyle Busch maintained the lead after the start of the race. Kyle Busch would eventually lead to the race high of 226 laps. Afterward, Gordon became the leader during the final laps. He remained the leader until Kyle Busch passed him with four laps remaining. Kyle Busch crossed the finish line first to clinch his first win of the season, and his third at Richmond International Raceway. There were six caution flags and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result moved Kyle Busch up two spots to third in the Drivers' Championship, 109 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and ten ahead of Matt Kenseth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, eighteen points points ahead of Toyota and thirty ahead of Ford, with twenty-six races remaining in the season. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikidata weekly summary #56
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- Development
- Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
- Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
- Worked on improving the DataTypes system
- Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
- Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
- Catching up with Selenium tests
- Events/Press
- Hypertext 2013
- upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
- when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
- fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
- added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
- fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
- Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
- Visual query interface for Wikidata
- 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
- Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
- Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
- Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #57
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- Development
- Implemented basic editing of Time values
- Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
- Work on RDF mapping/export
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
- Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
- Events/Press
- Interview on dradio.de
- PHP Unconference Europe 2013
- PHP Days 1013 Berlin
- Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
- Newest task forces: Baseball
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #58
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- Discussions
- What should be done with the property stable Version?
- Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
- The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
- Events/Press
- A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
- Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
- upcoming: Linked Data in Business
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
- Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
- The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
- English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
- Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
- Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
- The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
- {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
- Development
- Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
- Result of the external codebase review has been published
- Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
- Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
- Jenkins setup improvements
- Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
- Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
- Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
- Progress on the SQLStore
- Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
- Bug fixing
- Made property parser function code more robust
- Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
- Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
- Work on RDF mapping and serialization
- Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
- Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
- Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #59
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- Events/Press
- Linked Data in Business
- currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
- The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
- Newest task forces: Ship task force
- d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
- Development
- A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
- Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
- Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
- Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
- Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
- Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
- Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
- Open Tasks for You
- Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
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Article of the month – Dick Trickle
Richard "Dick" Trickle (October 27, 1941 – May 16, 2013) was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC. In more than an estimated 2,200 races, Trickle logged one million laps and is believed to have won over 1,200 feature races. He was billed as the winningest short track driver in history. Trickle's career highlights include racing to 67 wins in 1972, winning seven ARTGO Championships in nine years between 1979 to 1987, winning back to back ASA AC-Delco Challenge championships in 1984 and 1985, the 1968 USAC Stock Car rookie of the year, and winning the 1989 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award in what was then called the Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup). Trickle was nicknamed the "White Knight" as referenced by his sponsored SuperAmerica paint scheme, when he raced in Wisconsin. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikidata weekly summary #60
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- Events/Press
- Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
- Hackathon in Amsterdam
- Linked Data in Business
- Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
- Upcoming: SemTechBiz
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
- 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
- prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
- Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
- Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
- Development
- Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
- Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
- Worked on coordinate value support
- Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
- Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
- Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
- Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
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Wikidata weekly summary #61
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- Discussions
- Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
- Events/Press
- Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
- SemTechBiz
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
- en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
- Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
- Average edits per page has passed 4
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
- Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
- Development
- Worked on globe coordinate editing
- Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
- EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
- First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
- Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
- Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
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Wikidata weekly summary #62
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- Noteworthy Stuff
- Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
- The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
- And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
- Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
- If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
- Development
- More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
- Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
- Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
- EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #63
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- Discussions
- Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
- Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
- Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
- RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
- RfC about personal names
- Events/Press
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
- Development
- Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
- Further work on input validation
- Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
- Use Serializers for generating API results
- Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
- Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
- Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
- Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
WP:NASCAR Newsletter (June 2013)
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Article of the month – 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350, a Good Article
The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 20, 2010 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps, it was the sixteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the first of two road course competitions on the schedule. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson, for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Robby Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started fourth, clinched third. Conditions were sunny at the start of the race, making the track potentially slippery. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner, but Johnson, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Kahne suffered an ill-handling car during the beginning of the race, causing him to fall to seventh by the sixth lap. Seven laps before the finish, race leader Marcos Ambrose, turned his car off to try to save fuel, but he could not refire the engine and subsequently stalled. He dropped back from the lead to sixth place with seven laps remaining, allowing Kahne to finish fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth. There were eight cautions and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race, Johnson's fourth win of the season and his first ever at Infineon. The result moved him up four spots to second in the Drivers' Championship, 140 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and one ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, nine points ahead of Toyota and forty-three ahead of Dodge, with twenty races remaining in the season. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wikidata weekly summary #64
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- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
- Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
- Development
- The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
- Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
- Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
- Added serializers for the Ask query language
- Buuuugfixes and testing
- Refactoring
- Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #65
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- Discussions
- Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
- RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
- Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
- One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
- Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
- Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
- Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
- Development
- Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
- Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
- Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
- Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
- Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
- Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
- Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
- Lots of bugfixing
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these
Wikidata weekly summary #66
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- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
- Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
- Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
- Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
- Development
- Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
- Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
- Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
- The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
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Wikidata weekly summary #67
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- Discussions
- A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
- Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
- Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
- Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
- Events/Press
- Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
- 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
- Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
- Development
- Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
- Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
- Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
- Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
- Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
- Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
- Templates no longer parsed in labels.
- Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
- Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
- Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
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Wikidata weekly summary #68
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- Discussions
- New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
- Events/Press
- Next office hour on August 26
- upcoming: COSCUP
- upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
- There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
- Picture of the week could use some more input
- Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
- Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
- Development
- When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
- Ranking of the search results has been improved
- Worked on URL data type
- Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
- Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
- Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
- Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
- Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
- Made tests more reliable
- Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
- Worked on Time value formatter
- Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
- Work on implementing QueryEntity
- Open Tasks for You
- Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (July 2013)
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Article of the month – Tim Richmond, a good article
Tim Richmond (June 7, 1955 - August 13, 1989) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series). Richmond was the first driver to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars, which has since become an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons. Richmond achieved his top NASCAR season in 1986 when he finished third in points. He won seven races that season, more than any other driver on the tour. When he missed the season-opening Daytona 500 in February 1987, media reported that he had pneumonia. The infection most likely resulted from his compromised immune system, which had been weakened by AIDS. The disease would drastically shorten his life. Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events and one pole position before his final race in August of that year. He attempted a comeback in 1988 before NASCAR banned him for testing positive for a banned substance. Richmond grew up in a wealthy family and lived a debauched lifestyle, earning him the nickname "Hollywood". In describing Richmond's influence in the sport of racing, Lowe's Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler said: "We've never had a race driver like Tim in stock car racing. He was almost a James Dean-like character." When Richmond was cast for a bit part in the 1983 movie Stroker Ace, "He fell right in with the group working on the film," said director Hal Needham. Cole Trickle, the main character in the movie Days of Thunder, played by Tom Cruise, was loosely based on Richmond and his interaction with Harry Hyde and Rick Hendrick. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Article of the month – Tim Richmond, a good article
Tim Richmond (June 7, 1955 - August 13, 1989) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series). Richmond was the first driver to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars, which has since become an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons. Richmond achieved his top NASCAR season in 1986 when he finished third in points. He won seven races that season, more than any other driver on the tour. When he missed the season-opening Daytona 500 in February 1987, media reported that he had pneumonia. The infection most likely resulted from his compromised immune system, which had been weakened by AIDS. The disease would drastically shorten his life. Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events and one pole position before his final race in August of that year. He attempted a comeback in 1988 before NASCAR banned him for testing positive for a banned substance. Richmond grew up in a wealthy family and lived a debauched lifestyle, earning him the nickname "Hollywood". In describing Richmond's influence in the sport of racing, Lowe's Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler said: "We've never had a race driver like Tim in stock car racing. He was almost a James Dean-like character." When Richmond was cast for a bit part in the 1983 movie Stroker Ace, "He fell right in with the group working on the film," said director Hal Needham. Cole Trickle, the main character in the movie Days of Thunder, played by Tom Cruise, was loosely based on Richmond and his interaction with Harry Hyde and Rick Hendrick. (Read more...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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