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The Signpost: 11 September 2013
[change source]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
- In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
- WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
- Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!
- Featured content: Tintin goes featured
- Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes
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Wikidata weekly summary #75
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- State of the Map
- Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
- Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
- Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
- Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
- Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
- Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
- Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
- Development
- Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
- Started work on number data type
- Worked on simple query special page
- Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
- Worked on JSON dumps
- Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
- Continued work on the merge items API module
- Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
- Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
- Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
- Continued moving to new browsertests framework
- Bugfixes on autosummaries
- Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
- Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.
Removing Aaqib from Wikidata newsletter
[change source]I saw that you took Aaqib off the subscribers list for the weekly Wikidata newsletter. I have put him back. Please do not make decisions like that for other users, even if they are blocked. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:58, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
- Ok. I am sorry, I just thought if he was blocked he wouldn't need it. From now on I won't take decisions like that again. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 04:02, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Hello Reception123.Recently you have signed my guestbook! Thank you very much for signing my guestbook. Cheers. --Pratyya (Hello!) 14:33, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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- Your welcome! Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 15:07, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 September 2013
[change source]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
- Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
- WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
- Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
- Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?
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Wikidata weekly summary #76
[change source]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
- Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
- Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
- The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
- Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
- New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
- Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
- Did you know?
- Development
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
- Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
- Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
- Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
- Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
- Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
- More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
- Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
- Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
- Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
- new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
- Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
- Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
- Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
- Finished working on wbeditentity
- Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.
The Signpost: 25 September 2013
[change source]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
- News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
- Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
- In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
- WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
- Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
- Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?
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Wikidata weekly summary #77
[change source]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
- Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
- Stryn's request for oversight flag
- Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
- Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
- Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
- Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
- Development
- Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
- Improved layout for commons sitelink table
- More work on sorting
- Worked on statements UI tests
- Fixed failing QUnit tests
- Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
- Fixed a number of small bugs
- Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
- Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.
Wikidata weekly summary #78
[change source]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
- Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
- Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
- Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
- Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
- We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
- Development
- Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
- Continued work on numbers data type
- Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
- Fixed RDF serialization issue
- Merged merge API module
- Finished up database schema updating code
- Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
- Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
- Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
- Some cleanup of EntityView
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Hack on one of these.
- Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
- I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.
The Signpost: 02 October 2013
[change source]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
- Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
- Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
- WikiProject report: U2 Too
- Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
- Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war
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The Signpost: 09 October 2013
[change source]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
- Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
- In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: Australian Roads
- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
- Featured content: Under the sea
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Wikidata weekly summary #79
[change source]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: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
- Development
- Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
- Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
- Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
- Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
- Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
- Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
- Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
- Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
- Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
- MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
- Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.