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Wikidata weekly summary #85

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

Discussions
- Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
- Closed: Commons links
Events/Press/Blogs
- An interview with Denny Vrandečić
- WikiCon 2013
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reasonator now supports cities and locations
- The quantities datatype is available for testing
Did you know?
- Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
Development
- Refactored Api output
- Collect tasks for Google Code In
- Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
- Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
- Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
- Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
- Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
- Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
- Improved Wikibase Lua code
Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

As I said in August, contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do. The genre is refreshingly different from that of Wikipedia articles, and can allow writers to use a different range of skills. The need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement, not to mention the English Wikipedia.

Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive

Peter Burke's A Social History of Knowledge: Volume II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia is a broad and wide-ranging look at how knowledge has been created, acquired, organized, disseminated, and sometimes lost in the Western world over the last two and a half centuries, a sequel to his 2000 book covering the prior three centuries, A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot.

Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

Four articles, five lists, and thirty-four pictures were promoted to 'featured status' this week, including an image of a small fraction of the 18,000 taxis that serve Hong Kong.

WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia

This week, we headed over to WikiProject National Football League. With 10 Featured Articles, 61 Featured Lists, and 142 Good Articles (as of publication), this WikiProject has done a lot of work improving American football articles.

News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting

The Wikimedia Foundation has sent a formal cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR—the public relations agency accused of breaking Wikipedia policies and guidelines by creating, editing, and maintaining several thousand articles for paying clients through a sophisticated array of accounts. The Foundation's attorneys, Cooley LLP, have demanded that Wiki-PR's employees abide by the site's Terms of Use and the language of a community ban from the English Wikipedia.

Traffic report: Ill Winds

It's not hard to guess which event is leading interest in the top 25 this week. The sheer scale of Typhoon Haiyan is staggering; estimates place its maximum windspeed upon first landfall in the Philippines on November 6 at 315 km/h, which would make it the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to reach land. To date, the storm has killed nearly 4000 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 4 million homes.

Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

Back in March, when the March 25 Arbitration Report covered the Audit Subcommittee appointment discussion, a statement from the WMF legal division clarified its position that access to deleted revisions required an RFA or RFA-identical process; therefore AUSC committee appointments were not open to non-admins. The WMF legal team has now further clarified its position, saying that running for and winning an election for arbitrator would qualify as the type of rigorous community selection process required for the checkuser and oversight rights held by arbitrators.

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Tech News: 2013-47

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

New features

The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [1]
Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [2]

Problems

Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future

There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [3]

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06:43, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Recent move

Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Recent move

Andrew, you recently moved List of fictional British regiments to List of fictional regiments of the British Army. I note that there is a section British Empire Regiments which, I believe, does not tie up with the new title. Hamish59 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't think they strictly fitted under "British" either! I'll have a think about how best to work this. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Hamish59 (talk) 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I've now tidied it up, put a note at the top defining the scope to include British Indian Army units, and removed all the spurious redlinks - thoughts? Next up will be merging/redirecting some of the individual articles, which are definitely non-notable, but not this evening! Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

That looks a lot neater. Hamish59 (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #86

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

Discussions
Events/Press/Blogs
- The Wikidata Concept Cloud
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities datatype is available for testing
Did you know?
- Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
- Newest task forces: Sports results task force
Development
- Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
- Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
- Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
- Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
- Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
- Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
- Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
- Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
- Released the Datavalues library
- Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
- Defined permissions for Simple Queries
- First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:41, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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Flow testing

Hey Andrew :). As mentioned on the Milhist coordinators talkpage, we've opened Flow up for community testing. I'd be really grateful if you could hammer on the system (if you haven't already!), let me know any bugs you find, and leave a note at the 'first release' page explaining what you, as a member of Wikiproject Military History, would need to see to be okay with it being deployed on that wikiproject's talkpage.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Reminder: Museum geonotice

Reminding you as requested, about the pending geonotice request for the museum event. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi Andy. Nothing there - am I missing something? (I'll put up the BBC one just now, though) Andrew Gray (talk) 20:45, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Doh! It was the BBC I meant. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who

Summary:Doctor Who nearly got cancelled in its first week because its premiere was swamped by coverage of the JFK assassination, which happened the same day. Thankfully, producers saw fit to rerun it the next day, which is now its official anniversary date.

Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

Wikipedia works on the efforts of unpaid volunteers who choose to donate their time to advance the cause of free knowledge. This phenomenon, as trivial as it may sound to those acquainted with Wikipedia inner workings, has always puzzled economists and social scientists alike, in that standard Economic theory would not predict that such enterprises would thrive without any form of remuneration.

Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more

Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions

The sister project Wikisource, the digital library that hosts free-content primary sources, is now a decade old. Wikisource, which now has versions in 63 languages, is the sixth type of project to reach ten-year milestone and will be the last until 2016. The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations to the Board of Trustees on 11 new applications for annual grants by 11 WMF-affiliated organisations. The maximum total budget for the current and upcoming March rounds is US$6M.

WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie

This week, we returned to WikiProject Apple Inc. for a peek at their newest articles about the latest in gadgets and software. The last time we took a bite out of WikiProject Apple, they had just finished merging WikiProject Macintosh and WikiProject iPhone OS. Today, the project is hard at work rewriting their primary article, improving the subject's outline, and adding to the project's list of 25 Good Articles and 6 Featured Articles.

Featured content: F*&!

Seventeen articles, four lists, and twenty-eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status in the last two weeks.

Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review

The Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case has opened. The second draft of the discretionary sanctions proposal is now open for review.

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Wikidata weekly summary #87

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

Discussions
- Change the resysopping process
- Inactive administrators
- Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
Events/Press/Blogs
- Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
- A few new features which require your testing!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
- Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
Development
- Finalized localization of quantity values
- Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
- More work on improving diffs
- Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
- Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
- Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
- Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
- Database performance improvements
- Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
- Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Geonotice poke

Hi Andrew! So to poke you again so soon, but I was hoping that our Geonotice could go out by this weekend. The event is still a week away, so no rush, but I just wanted to get it on your radar. -- Gaurav (talk) 20:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Done! Andrew Gray (talk) 16:43, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much! :-D -- Gaurav (talk) 21:34, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Oops, I just discovered a mistake in MediaWiki:Geonotice.js -- you've set the end date to "14 January 2013", so the notices won't display. It should be December 14, 2013 for us, but there are a couple of other events which need their year changed to 2014. Thanks for dealing with all this! -- Gaurav (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

I blame Sunday evenings! Fixed. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2013-49

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

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New features

The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [4]
JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [5]

VisualEditor

You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [6]
You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [7]
Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [8]

Problems

Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [9]

Future

MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org. [10]

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08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 15:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue XI, November 2013
Headlines
Australia and New Zealand report: From East to West Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg France report: Mass uploads; Wiki Loves Monuments; Edit-a-thon; GLAM conference Germany report: MS Wissenschaft; Science Gallery; Zugang gestalten; Science 2.0; OKFest 2014 Italy report: Libraries and librarians (but there are still shoes) Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 award ceremony; Day of the Dead photo contest winners Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Amersfoort; Wikipedia seminar Oslo; Wikimedia Nederland Conference; Europeana Fashion Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Fundación Joaquín Díaz González; Wiki Party in Salamanca Sweden report: Motorcycles, Norway and shoes Switzerland report: Wiki Loves Monuments Awards Ceremony; Wikipedians in Residence; Image Donations UK report: Open content at the BBC; edit-a-thons; photography USA report: GLAM-Wiki Activities in Philadelphia and Vancouver, Washington Open Access report: Open Access Button and Berlin 11 conference Calendar: December's GLAM events
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