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Tech News: 2016-03

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

• You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [1]
• Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [2]

Changes this week

• The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [3]
• MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Emmanuel Lemelson

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Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon

​Hello,

CIS-A2K is going to organize an edit-a-thon between 25 and 31 January this year. The aim of this edit-a-thon is creating and improving Geographical Indications in India related articles.

We welcome all of you to join this edit-a-thon.
Please see the event and add your name as a participant: Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Events/Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon

Feel free to ask if you have question(s).
Regards. --Tito Dutta (talk) 17:05, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Josip Broz Tito

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out

• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle

• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre

• Featured content: This week's featured content

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2016)

An izakaya drinking establishment in Gotanda, Tokyo Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Izakaya Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Chowder • Deity Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 January 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Tech News: 2016-04

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

• You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [5][6]
• Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [7]

Changes this week

• You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [9]
• The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [10]
• Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [11]

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16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
  • Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
  • Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [12] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [13] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
  • Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
  • Wikidata Graph Builder
  • Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
  • You can give input on WMF's strategy
  • Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
  • Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
  • Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
  • French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
  • Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
• Development
  • Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
  • Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
  • Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
  • Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
  • Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
  • Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
  • Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
  • Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
  • More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Please comment on Talk:Salt Mud Slide

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The Signpost: 27 January 2016

• Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy

• News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board

• In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote

• Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

• Traffic report: Death and taxes

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2016)

The slaughtered swine (1652) by Barent Fabricius, a depiction of a killed animal Hello, Sanskari. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Killing of animals Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Izakaya • Chowder Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Please comment on Talk:List of oldest living people

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