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Wikidata weekly summary #322

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Lakokat

• Events
  • Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America
  • Past: Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events. The slides are usually listed from the talk's page on Wikimania wiki.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
  • HarvestTemplates is now compatible with EditGroups: you can easily revert any run that goes wrong (even if it is not your own).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Harmonized System Code, section number, CJKV variant character, ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, position of nasal sonant, LilyPond notation, hardness, accreditation
    • External identifiers: A Church Near You church ID, Australian Poetry Library poet ID, French Academy in Rome resident ID, GlyphWiki ID, Historia de la Medicina person ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID, Scottish Poetry Library poet ID, The Reptile Database ID, Legabasket.it player ID, Les Voix de la poésie poet ID, RPO poet ID, SBN books ID, artist-info curator ID, artist-info artist ID, artist-info location ID, BD Gest' author ID, EDIT16 catalogue author ID, EDIT16 catalogue printer ID, GameSpot ID, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID, Médicos históricos doctor ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Base de datos de premiados person ID, Boijmans work ID, IPHAN ID, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, LRB contributor ID, Poetry Society of America poet ID, RISM work ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry In Voice poet ID, artist-info exhibition ID, archINFORM person or group ID, MAPS poet ID, DEFA film database ID, identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català, Znicenekostely ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Moisture absorption, date of release, Ideographic description sequences, Cangjie input, four-corner method, Hangul, Eumhun, Jyutping, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Bàng-uâ-cê, Kienning Colloquial Romanized, Guangdong Hakka Romanization, Sichuanese Pinyin, Peng'im, Unusually granulated item, Wine color, IANA service name, Toughness, upregulated by, Elongation at break, relative date properties, Prison History ID, CONDEPHAAT ID, copyright status, city that hosted Wikimania, Vietnamese pronunciation, Work hardening strain, Heat treating, EDb company ID, Water absorption, Schematic, passive voice, Normalized Unicode character, Enciclovida ID, Relative humidity, Poisson's ratio, Microstructure, key strength, Weakness
    • External identifiers: identifiant de l'Inventaire de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 東京文化財研究所物故者識別拡張子, IDs from alternativa teatral, Virtual Laboratory ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Swedish Parish place names register, oric.org identifier, Kopaliński Online ID, Altmetric ID, Open Media Database person ID, Python Package Index project, CPAN project, RubyGems gem, CRAN project, L'île ID, National Road DataBase ID, Literature Ireland ID, Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, RedTube ID, CICLIC ID, Interbibly ID, Le Monde ID, Courrier international ID, Courrier international source ID, Tebeosfera ID, Baidu ScholarID, College de France professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1809-1909), Paris Faculty of Arts professor ID (1909-1939), KLEKs building ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Fictional characters married to their siblings (source)
    • Translations of disease names in South-African languages (source)
    • All Wikidata properties (which are not identifiers) without a label in Afrikaans (source)
    • List of people born or dead in Canton de Vaud (Switzerland), with archives where their documents are stored (source)
    • Timeline of serial killers (source)
    • Map of disasters, color-coded by disaster type (source)

• Development
  • More work on showing Lexemes and Forms in Special:WhatLinksHere (phab:T195302)
  • Fix wrong translations of Form related strings (phab:T191614)
  • Fix error message for non empty item (phab:T194371)
  • More work on storing Senses (phab:T198032)
  • More work on easy Wikibase Docker instance config generation (phab:T198841)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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) 09:09, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2018)

Strawberry liqueur at a restaurant in Greece Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Liqueur Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Louis IV of France • Indian Slavery Act, 1843 Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [1]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [2][3]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [4][5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (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 31 July 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 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #323

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
  • populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
  • user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
  • Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
    • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
    • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
  • Query examples:
    • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
    • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
    • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
    • Music albums from Argentina (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
  • Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

• Development
  • Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
  • Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
  • Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
  • Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
  • Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
  • Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
  • Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
  • Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
  • Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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) 14:33, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if
  

Ships and shoes – and if you don't like it here, just go away!

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise
  

How admin would-bes run the gauntlet.

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
  

Wikipedia referees wag a finger at Professional Wrestling editors.

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR
  

New admins and Kudpung finally leaves NPP after 7 years.

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set
  

One secret cabal that watches out for conspiracy theories, and another one out to stymie venture capitalists?

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
  

And more: a new user group for editing code, Women in Red, and arbitrator articles.

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose
  

Spanning the gamut from warfare and destruction to pop culture to celebrations of nature and humanity's achievements.

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes
  

We don't have "state agents" in a political debate, but couldn't talk about it if there were.

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else
  

Finding the mathematician and Supreme Court nominee in this list is like playing Where's Waldo?.

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs
  

Useful new gadgets.

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July
  

Depictions of July events in several countries.

• Blog: Motivation of two editors
  

Those who study ancient Egypt.

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
  

And other recent findings, plus a roundup of research presentations at Wikimania.

• Humour: It's all the same
  

Merge WikiProject Professional wrestling and ANI.

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you
  

Get over it!

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire
  

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2018)

A selection of MDMA pills, which are sometimes used as a club drug. Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Club drug Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Liqueur • Louis IV of France Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #324

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bovlb
  • Closed request for comments: Association Football Matches

• Events
  • Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
    • OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia:A Quick overview
    • Maps based on Wikidata queries
    • Wikimedia in disaster management and humanitarian aid: an overview
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Harvard University, MA, USA, on August 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases - harvesting tuples from news and scholarly corpora and releasing them as open data
    • Wired story on the above

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase quality constraints are now loaded into the Query Service and can be queried. Queries on property talk pages have been adapted.
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.9 has been released
  • A list of Wikidata-related activities for coursework has been started at d:Wikidata:Wikidata curricula/Activities
  • We know have more than 10,000 Lexemes in Wikidata
  • A challenge about months of the year is running, you can create Lexemes with the ones in your language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: derived from form, schematic, passive voice, registration district, expressed in, coefficient of friction, number of arrests, invasive to, microstructure, normalized Unicode character, number of works accessible online, Poisson's ratio, moisture absorption, number of platform faces, relative humidity
    • External identifiers: Auteurs en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ID, Eulalie ID, RedTube ID, Paris Faculty of Science professor ID, Literature Ireland ID, Livre et lecture en Bretagne ID, Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1909-1939), Paris Faculty of Letters professor ID (1809-1908), College de France professor ID (1909-1939), CICLIC author ID, INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, Courrier international topic ID, CNRS ID, IDIH ID, Courrier international source ID, KLEKs ID, Interbibly author ID, Le Monde ID, MUSE journal ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, Tebeosfera ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, CRAN project, RubyGems gem, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties dead artist ID, Python Package Index project, Tebeosfera character ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, archINFORM ID (locations), CAGE code, EDb company ID, Indian census area code (2011), flight-report.com Airline identifier, Norwegian National Road DataBase ID, NATO Stock Number, QS World University ID, SMS Power identifier, Times Higher Education World University ID, Libris-URI, oric.org identifier, Artcyclopedia artist ID, Places of Worship Inventory ID, P5599
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: value is inherited from, Guss, Countries with high prevalence, chieseitaliane ID, legal status, Match Score, topic's subcategory, Covered by, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank University ID, Trove newspaper ID, Belvedere object ID, Aosdána ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Evene ID, OpenMath ID, GLAMOS ID, Swimsuit ID, archINFORM ID (Schlagwörter), CMI ID, Featured Biographies ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, DOLF ID, Marvel character ID, FFF character ID, FFF author ID, National Cartoonists Society ID, Number World ID, legabasket.it coach ID, Black Ferns ID, WSO Online ID, IEEE standard, ITU-T Recommendation, ITU-R Recommendation, LOA ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, iTunes music video ID
  • Query examples:
    • minerals named after women (source)
    • Frequency of major and minor key tonalities per genre (source)
    • Timeline of Writing Systems (source)
    • Nonprofit organizations and the software they develop (source)
    • Map of newspapers in Oregon (source)

• Development
  • Allow to show incoming links on the graph explorer dialog on WDQS (phab:T197778)
  • Fulltext search for Lexemes and Forms (only in Lexeme namespace) has been merged (phab:T196188)
  • We are now collecting click data when completion search on Wikidata is used (phab:T196186) which would serve us to improve search relevancy
  • Fix a lot of issues with our test system (phab:T200693)
  • Disallow merging of items that link to each other in references and qualifiers (phab:T119614)
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T200884)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Improve the validation and error message when a label, description or alias is too long (phab:T145932, phab:T200780)
  • Expose constraint violations to WDQS (phab:T192567)
  • Add the possibility to download result of a query from the embed mode (phab:T176797)
  • Get persistent editing of Senses done (phab:T196270) (you can try it now on the beta system)
  • Work on edit summary of Senses (phab:T196290)
  • Work on diffs of Senses (phab:T196289)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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) 14:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [6]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [7][8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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 7 August 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 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2018)

Anna Anka is a Swedish-American model, actress and author. Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Anna Anka Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Club drug • Liqueur Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #325

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Bencemac

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
  • The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
  • A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
  • Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • list of badged items without claims has a new format
  • Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
  • The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
  • wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
  • During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
  • New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
    • External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
    • External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
  • Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
  • Query examples:
    • Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
    • Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
    • Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
    • Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
    • Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
    • Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
    • Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata

• Development
  • More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
  • Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
  • Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
  • Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
  • View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
  • Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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) 14:09, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [9]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August 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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [10]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2018)

Guacamole is an avocado-based dip, spread, or salad first developed by the Aztecs in what is now Mexico. Hello, Quenhitran. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Guacamole Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Anna Anka • Club drug Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •