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The Signpost: 03 July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
- In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
- Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
- Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
- WikiProject report: Puppies!
- Featured content: Queen of France
- Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
- Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
- A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [1]
- Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
- Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [2]
- Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [3]
Future software changes
- MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
<gallery />tag (bug #8480). [4] - It will now be possible to create empty
MediaWiki:messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [5] - The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [6]
- The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [7]
- Table of contents will now use the HTML
<div />element instead of<table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [8] - First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [9]
- A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.
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The Signpost: 10 July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikimedia Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
- Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
- Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
- Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
- Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
- WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
- Featured content: The week of the birds
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [10]
- The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the
__DISAMBIG__code to disambiguation templates (see example). [11] - The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions. [12]
- The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
- VisualEditor news:
- According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
- Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
- Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
- Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
- Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
- The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.
Future software changes
- A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [13]
- The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [14]
- Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [15] [16]
- Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [17]
- Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [18]
- A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
- An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [19]
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23:38, 2013 ж. шілденің 14 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 17 July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
- Featured content: Documents and sports
- Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
- Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for June 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25. [20]
- A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs. [21]
- VisualEditor news:
- The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29. [22]
- A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
- SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
- Users can now edit
<nowiki>...</nowiki>blocks (bug #47678). - When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text. [23]
- Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
- A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.
Future software changes
- The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed. [24]
- Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457). [25]
- A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org. [26]
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03:09, 2013 ж. шілденің 22 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 24 July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
- In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
- Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
- Featured content: Engineering and the arts
- Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
- Traffic report: Gleeless
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [27]
- Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [28]
- Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [29]
- The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [30]
- It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [31]
- The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [32]
- Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [33], [34], [35]
- Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [36]
- A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
- VisualEditor news:
- On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [37]
- A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [38]
- Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44]
- It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
- VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
- If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
- Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).
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The Signpost: 31 July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
- News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
- Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
- Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
- WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
- Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
- Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
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The Signpost: 07 August 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
- Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
- Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
- Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
- Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard
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The Signpost: 14 August 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
- News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
- In the media: Chinese censorship
- Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
- WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
- Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
- Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes; invitation to comment on applicants for checkuser and oversight ends 16 August
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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 previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [45]
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [46]
- You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [47]
- You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [48]
- You can now use the
<wbr>HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [49] - Gadget authors: you can now use the
wikipage.contenthook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after thedocument-readyevent (for example using Ajax). (30713) [50]
Problems fixed
- There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
- Техникалық талқылау есептері provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
- There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [51]
VisualEditor news
- The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
- You can now edit references that are added inside a
<references> block. (51741)
- You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the
button for the <s> tag), lower text (
for <sub>), upper text (
for <sup>), underlined text (
for <u>), computer code (
for <code> and <tt>), math text (
for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs (
for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language (
for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
- You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [52]
Future
- Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [53]
- Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [54]
- Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [55]
- Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [56]
- The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [57]
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The Signpost: 21 August 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Call for contributors
- WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement
- News and notes: Wikipedia's Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
- Traffic report: Bad Cat
- Discussion report: Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
- Featured content: Afrobeat
- Technology report: Generating musical scores with LilyPond
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The Signpost: 28 August 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
- Traffic report: Reddit creep
- WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
- Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
- Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
- Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective
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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movementAbout · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 22:05, 2013 ж. тамыздың 31 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 04 September 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
- WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
- Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
- Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
- Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
- Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible
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The Signpost: 11 September 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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The Signpost: 18 September 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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The Signpost: 25 September 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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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
- Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
- There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [58]
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [59]
- Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [60]
- You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [61]
- You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.
Future
- Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [62]
- Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [63]
- You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [64]
- You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.
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02:10, 2013 ж. қазанның 3 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 02 October 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for August 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movementAbout · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 15:10, 2013 ж. қазанның 6 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 09 October 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #80[қайнарын өңдеу]
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
- Newest task forces: International relations task force
- Development
- 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.
The Signpost: 16 October 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
- WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
- Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
- Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
- Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes
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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
- You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like
[[File:Gerrit_patchset_25838_test.svg|lang=de]] for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
- Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system. [65]
VisualEditor news
- You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [66]
- You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [67]
- When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [68] [69]
Future
- The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you. [70]
- MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
- The interface to reset your password will soon be changed. [71]
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15:28, 2013 ж. қазанның 21 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #81[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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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 "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [72]
VisualEditor news
- On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the Сурет, Анықтама and Санат spaces. [73]
Problems
- On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused
*.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [74]
Future
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
- In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [75]
- You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.
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15:56, 2013 ж. қазанның 28 (ALMT)
Wikimedia Highlights from September 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movementAbout · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 16:50, 2013 ж. қарашаның 1 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #82[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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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 style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [76]
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [77]
Problems
- There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.
Future
- Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.
JavaScript / Gadget developers
- Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [78]
- Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in
debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [79]
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16:46, 2013 ж. қарашаның 4 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #83[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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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
- You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class
"autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [80]
Problems
- There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [81]
Future
- The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [82]
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [83]
- The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [84]
- The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [85]
- You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for
{{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [86]
- In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [87]
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19:18, 2013 ж. қарашаның 11 (ALMT)
Wikimedia Highlights from October 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for October 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movementAbout · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 00:30, 2013 ж. қарашаның 16 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 13 November 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [88]
Future
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
- The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to
*.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [89]
- The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [90]
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14:58, 2013 ж. қарашаның 18 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #85[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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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. [91]
- 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. [92]
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. [93]
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12:56, 2013 ж. қарашаның 25 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #86[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.
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. [94]
- JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [95]
- 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. [96]
- You can now open VisualEditor by adding
?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [97]
- Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [98]
Problems
- Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [99]
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. [100]
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The Signpost: 11 December 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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Wikimedia Highlights from November 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movementAbout · Subscribe/unsubscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery, 10:47, 2013 ж. желтоқсанның 12 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #88[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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.
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
- You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used. [101]
- If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [102]
- The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [103]
- You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
- The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [104]
Problems
- There was a problem with the "Кітап жасау" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [105]
- The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [106] [107]
- Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [108]
Future
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
- You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [109]
- GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [110]
- A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [111] [112]
Other
- You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features. [113]
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14:24, 2013 ж. желтоқсанның 16 (ALMT)
The Signpost: 18 December 2013[қайнарын өңдеу]
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[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
- You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [114]
- There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [115] [116]
- You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [117]
- If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [118]
- You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [119] [120]
- All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [121] [122]
- You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [123]
- You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [124]
- Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [125]
Future software changes
- There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
- When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [126] [127]
- New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [128] [129].
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [130] [131]
- You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [132] [133]
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14:22, 2013 ж. желтоқсанның 23 (ALMT)
Wikidata weekly summary #90[қайнарын өңдеу]
- 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[қайнарын өңдеу]
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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