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Reversion of unhelpful edits
Not all unhelpful edits are vandalism. Vandalism must be done with the intention to harm the encyclopedia. This edit was not useful/helpful, but that does not mean that the IP deserved the warning. It is not vandalism and there shouldn't have been a level 3 warning given. Please assume good faith and think carefully before you warn an editor for vandalism. Chenzw Talk 12:37, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #81
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
- Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
- Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
- Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
- Development
- Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
- Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
- Bene worked on a table of content for items (bugzilla:44876)
- Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
- Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
- Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
- Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
- Worked on the user interface for simple queries
- Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
- Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
- 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.
The Signpost: 23 October 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia
- In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish
- Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements
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Wikidata weekly summary #82
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
- Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
- Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
- Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
- Newest task forces: Railways task force
- Development
- Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
- Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
- ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
- WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
- Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
- Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
- Further developments on Quantities
- Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
- Serialization options have been cleaned up
- Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
- Further work on Query and QueryEngine
- 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.
The Signpost: 30 October 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
- Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
- In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
- WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
- Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
- Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube
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I've never got one of those before. Thanks! Also, I'm not a patroller. Shiningroad (talk) 11:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #83
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
- On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
- Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
- Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
- Newest task forces: Athletics task force
- You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
- Development
- Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
- Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
- More work on badges by mlazowik
- Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
- Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
- Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
- Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
- Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
- Fix validation of wbsetreference
- Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
- 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 biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.
The Signpost: 06 November 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
- Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
- Traffic report: Danse Macabre
- Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
- Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed
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The Signpost: 13 November 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: FDC staff assessments raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
- News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
- Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
- Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
- WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
- Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent
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Wikidata weekly summary #84
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
- Wikidata office hour logs are available here
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
- Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
- The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
- Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
- Newest task forces:
- Development
- Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
- Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
- Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
- Started making improvements to the loading time of items
- Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
- More work on ranks for statements
- Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
- Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
- Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
- Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
- Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
- Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
- Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
- Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
- Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
- Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.
Wikidata weekly summary #85
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- 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.
The Signpost: 20 November 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
- News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
- Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
- Traffic report: Ill Winds
- WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures
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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
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 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.
The Signpost: 04 December 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
- Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
- WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
- Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
- Featured content: F*&!
- Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
- Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia
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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
- Events/Press/Blogs
- 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!
The Signpost: 11 December 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
- In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
- Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
- Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
- Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released
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Wikidata weekly summary #88
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
- Newest task forces: Political geography task force
- Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
- Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
- Development
- Made improvements to lower database load
- Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
- Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
- Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
- Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.
The Signpost: 18 December 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
- WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
- Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
- Traffic report: Hopper to the top
- Featured content: Triangulum, the world's most boring constellation
- Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset
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Wikidata weekly summary #89
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams
- Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
- Development
- Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
- Improved and added a lot of tests
- Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
- No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
- Caching and database improvements
- Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
- More work on quantities UI
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of these.
Wikidata weekly summary #90
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over handling of items
- RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
- Closed: Inactive administrators
- Closed: Bot policy
- Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
- Open RfA: GerardM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: chromosome, produces
- Development
- Redesign and improvement of toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
- Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
- Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
- Some progress on redirects
- Tests, tests, tests
- Vacations \o/
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!
The Signpost: 25 December 2013
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
- Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
- WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
- Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
- Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
- Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments
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The Signpost: 01 January 2014
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: The year in review
- In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
- Book review: Życie Wirtualnych Dzikich
- Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
- Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
- Featured content: 2013—the trends
- Technology report: 2013: Year in review
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Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
- d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
- Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: none
- Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
- Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
- Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
DevelopmentWord from John- To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item