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The Signpost: 05 March 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
- Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
- Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?
- WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
- Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
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Wikidata weekly summary #101 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
- Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
- Development
- Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
- Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
- Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
- Continued research for user interface redesign
- Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
- Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
- Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
- Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 12 March 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Traffic report: War and awards
- News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month
- WikiProject report: Examining the Russian Wikipedia's Entomology Project
- Featured content: Ukraine burns
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Wikidata weekly summary #102 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
- Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
- The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
- Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
- GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
- Development
- Continued making the UI faster
- Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
- Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
- Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
- wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
- Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
- Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
- Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
- Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
- Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 19 March 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the English Wikipedia's largest-ever good topic
- Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?
- News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny
- Traffic report: Into thin air
- WikiProject report: We have history
- Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
- Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
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The Signpost: 26 March 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
- Comment: A foolish request
- News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
- Traffic report: Down to a simmer
- WikiProject report: From the peak
- Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own
- Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped
- Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
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Wikidata weekly summary #103 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikiquote notability
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
- Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
- Development
- Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
- Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
- Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
- Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
- Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
- Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
- Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
- Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
- The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #104 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
- Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
- Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
- Development
- Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
- UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
- minor fixes in the UI
- UI for claims on property pages
- worked on review of property suggester (review)
- still looking for a working student/intern
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 02 April 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
- News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
- Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
- WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
- Featured content: April Fools
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Wikidata weekly summary #105 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
- Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
- A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
- Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
- Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
- Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
- Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
- Finishing touches for Statements on properties
- Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
- Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
- Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
- Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
- Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
- Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
- Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
- Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
- Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
- Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 09 April 2014 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
- News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
- Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
- WikiProject report: Law
- Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
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Wikidata weekly summary #106 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of items without images but possibly free images available
- Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
- Development
- Lots of small little cleanups.
- Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
- Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item