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Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
    • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
    • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
    • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
    • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
    • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1]
  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [2]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016

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JStuStudios

can you look at the hCard problems in JStuStudios? from the edit history, it is asserted that there is no existing infobox which can be used on this article. Frietjes (talk) 17:39, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

@Frietjes: {{Infobox comedian}} specifically has options - and a copyable blank - for groups, which includes duos. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:45, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
good idea, but unlikely that Mjbmr will find that acceptable. Frietjes (talk) 17:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Then use WP:DR; starting with the article talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Second opinion on a template

Hey Andy, could I get your thoughts on {{Checkboxes and Switch templates}}? On the one hand a "See also" would suffice, but having a sidebar is a bit more obvious. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 02:42, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Possibly relevant. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:57, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Jonesey95, in this particular instance, I'm not sure it is (which is why I didn't feel it relevant to mention); they've been dicking about in the template space recently, but other than a few poorly-named moves there haven't been any major CIR issues (just "why did you create this...?" issues). Primefac (talk) 03:23, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I agree that a "see also" would suffice. Why not Tfd it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:44, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
I was planning on it if you agreed with me. I've been entrenched in monitoring/fixing the user's template contributions so I was concerned I might be overly biased/judgmental. Primefac (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
    • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
    • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Tech News: 2016-41

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

Recent changes

  • You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [3]
  • The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [4]
  • Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [5]

Changes this week

  • Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [6]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [7]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:57, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [8]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [9]

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [10]

Future changes

  • The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #231

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

Wikidata property migration

Hey Andy. The last two templates listed for Wikidata property migration don't have anything for the bot to remove. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #232

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


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  • Development
    • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
    • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
    • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
    • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

  • The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [12]
  • About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [13]
  • Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Timelines

There was an RFC not to allow timelines in articles. Is there a way to find them all, or at least count how many we have? Perhaps a query with "timeline" appearing as a section header "==Timeline==". --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:14, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

What a silly idea. Where was this RfC? I don't recall seeing it announced on {{Cent}}, for example. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 05:21, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography for the closed RFC. I am trying to get more people to respond at Wikipedia talk:Timeline. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:57, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
Can you help me find the articles with timelines so I can delete them, you responded then I never heard from you again. Also how do I make a category appear on the talk page? Category:Articles containing timelines. You did not respond at WP:Timelines so you seem to have no objections to removing all the timelines. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:57, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
I responded here, saying "What a silly idea". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:53, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I was hoping you would defend them at the new discussion. Since the !vote is to remove them, and no one objected to removing the one at Albert Einstein, how do I find them in the raw text. How can I search for "==timeline==" and "==chronology==" in the unformatted text? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 15:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
If you agree that it is silly to delete them, then please speak up at the current debate. Silence means you agree with the current policy. Just 6 people responded to the RFC which led to the deletion order. Or help me find them so they can be deleted. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:33, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Template:Infobox person

Can you change the language: Remove the requirement that parents be "independently notable" (blue-linked) or "particularly relevant" for the "parent" field at Template talk:Infobox person? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:34, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

What stops you from doing so? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Give me admin rights and I will do it. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 20:54, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
I am not a admin. However, the template's documentation is not protected. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:29, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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