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Wikidata weekly summary #237

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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Tech News: 2016-48

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

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [1]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [2]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [3][4]

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 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #238

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  • Development
    • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
    • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
    • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
    • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
    • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
    • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
    • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

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Tech News: 2016-49

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Recent changes

  • You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [5]
  • Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [6]
  • ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [7]

Changes this week

  • You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [8]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

Meetings

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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: November 2016



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Wikidata weekly summary #239

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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.


  • Events/Press/Blogs
    • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
    • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
    • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
    • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
    • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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Tech News: 2016-50

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

  • Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [9]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [10]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [11]

Problems

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [12]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).

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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

  • First place – $200
  • Second & Third place – $50 each
  • Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

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