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This Month in Education: December 2017

This Month in Education

Volume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia has established cooperation with three new faculties within the Education Program Updates to Programs & Events Dashboard Wiki Camp Berovo 2017 WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators Corfupedia records local history and inspires similar projects Wikipedia learning lab at TUMO Stepanakert Wikimedia CH experiments a Wikipedia's treasure hunt during "Media in Piazza"
From the Education Team	Creating digitally minded educators at BETT 2017
In the News	Things My Professor Never Told Me About Wikipedia "Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" Conference in Ireland Science is shaped by Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2018-02

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

• On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #294

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Jarekt
  • New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
  • Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
  • Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
  • Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
  • Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
  • There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
  • Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
  • The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
  • Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
    • Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
    • Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
  • You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
  • A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
  • How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
  • New tool: Hub

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
  • Query examples:
    • Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
  • Newest database reports: days of 2018

• Development
  • Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
  • Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
  • Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
  • Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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This Month in GLAM: December 2017

This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue XII, December 2017 Headlines France report: Rituels grecs; Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Germany report: a good working key to GLAM collections Indonesia report: Collaboration with library in Yogyakarta Italy report: Activities in December Macedonia report: Winners of DARM Challenge 3 Netherlands report: Historical aerial photographs from the Ministry of Defense; Texts on Dutch philosophers released under free license; Wikipedia manual; Images from Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Serbia report: Two Serbian museums welcomed their first Wikipedians in Residence Spain report: Wikipedia Club Sweden report: Inputs to the National Library Strategy; Statens maritima museer; Tekniska museet; Riksantikvarieämbetet Tunisia report: Upload Book Ukraine report: Promoting and Community events in Libraries USA report: Fire & Ice & Goats Wikidata report: Happy Q34812! WMF GLAM report: Share Case Studies and Feedback with WMF, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons Research, and Blog Highlights Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2018-3

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

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
  • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
  • Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
  • Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of photography techniques
    • Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
    • Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
    • Inventions by Republicans (source)
    • Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
    • Countries with no rivers (source)
    • Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
    • People who died on K2 (source)
  • Showcase items: 15 January 2018

• Development
  • Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
  • Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
  • Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
  • Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
  • Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
  • Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
  • Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
    • add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
    • keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
    • make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
    • mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
    • lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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108		Francesco Hayez (talk)	Cleanup
6		Andrew Spielman (talk)	Expand
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292		Women and video games (talk)	Expand
13		The Red Sea (EP) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
68		Orchid (hardcore punk band) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12		Bloodwulf (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
286		Mouse Trap (game) (talk)	Merge
1,594		Game (talk)	Merge
223		Strip game (talk)	Merge
16		Intermedio (film) (talk)	Wikify
35		Video game censorship (talk)	Wikify
7		Honor point count (talk)	Wikify
26		Biliary fever (talk)	Orphan
5		Babesia sp. 'North Carolina dog' (talk)	Orphan
3		Anatoki River (talk)	Orphan
44		Transovarial transmission (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2018-04

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

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [21][22]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
  • PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
  • The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
  • Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Nominations for the Steward elections are open
  • Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
  • repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
  • Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
  • Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
    • External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of nuclear tests (source)
    • Languages with more than one writing system (source)
    • Subclasses of malware (source)
    • Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
    • Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
    • Disney movie narrative locations (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
  • Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
  • Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
  • Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
  • Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
  • Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
  • Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
  • Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #297

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
  • Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
  • Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
  • Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
  • Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
  • Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
  • Query examples:
    • Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
    • Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
    • Cinemas in Berlin (source)
    • Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
    • Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
    • Movies filmed in Austria (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

• • Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
  • Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
  • Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
  • Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
  • Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
  • Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
  • Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
  • Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-05

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 later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [25]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2018

Wikipedia Education globe

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 1 | January 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Featured Topic	Bertsomate: using Basque oral poetry to illustrate math concepts
From the Community	Wikimedia Serbia celebrated 10 years from the first article written within the Education Program WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique update The first Swedish Master's in Digital Humanities partners with Wikimedia Sverige How we use PetScan to improve partnership with lecturers and professors
From the Education Team	The Education Survey Report is out! Education Extension scheduled shutdown

Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 18:41, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #298

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

• Discussions
  • AICAT grants proposal
  • ScienceSource grants renewal
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
  • See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
  • What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
  • Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
  • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
  • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
  • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
  • Statistics
    • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
    • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
    • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
    • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
  • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
    • External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
    • Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
    • Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
    • List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
    • Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
    • Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
  • Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback

• Development
  • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
  • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
  • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
  • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
  • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
  • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
  • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [26]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [27]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [28]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [29]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [30]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [31]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [32]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [34][35]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue I, January 2018 Headlines Australia report: We came, we saw, we conquered! Basque Country report: Books, librarians, encounters and borrowed data Côte d'Ivoire report: #1Lib1Ref, Côte d'Ivoire participates for the 2nd time France report: Fonds André Cros; #1lib1ref; Library of Dinan; LATMOS Germany report: sustainability beyond metrics Indonesia report: Digitizing the letters from Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Yogyakarta continues Italy report: Seventeen: let's talk and celebrate! Macedonia report: Importance of digitization in 21 century Netherlands report: Local heritage made available through Wikimedia & 3rd Wikicafé Tilburg Norway report: Image collection from Armenia and Sami bibliography Serbia report: #1lib1ref first time in Serbia: 786 references added! Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Photos, 3D and training with the National Heritage Board Tunisia report: Upload Book UK report: Oxford Wikidata project Ukraine report: Libraries at the Forefront of Running All-Out Action for Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Wikipedia Day Wikidata report: Our constraint reports won't constrain you! WMF GLAM report: Call for case studies, #1lib1ref, Structured Commons and more Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #299

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
  • The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
  • WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
  • mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
  • The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
    • External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
    • Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
    • JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
    • Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
    • Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
    • Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
    • List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)

• Development
  • Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
  • Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
  • Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
  • Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
  • Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [36][37][38]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [39]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [40]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [42]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

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

• Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

• A selection of cool tools on Wikidata

Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!

• • The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
  • QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
  • Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
  • WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
  • Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
  • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
  • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
  • DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
  • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
  • Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
  • The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
  • Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
  • Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
  • A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
  • Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
  • From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
  • Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
  • Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
  • Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
• The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
• Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
    • External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women with an Erdős number
    • Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object (thread)
    • Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
    • Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
    • Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
    • Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
    • Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
    • Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
    • Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx
  • Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment

• Development
  • Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
  • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
  • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
  • Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:35, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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

Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [43][44]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [45]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [46]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [47][48]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [49]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #301

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
  • Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards election is running until February 28th
  • Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
  • Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
  • It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
  • Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
  • You can give feedback about this newsletter
  • Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
    • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
  • Query examples:
    • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
    • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
    • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
    • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
  • Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

• Development
  • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
  • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
  • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:48, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [50]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [51][52]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [53]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [54][55][56]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [57]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [58][59]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)