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Wikidata weekly summary #352

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

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.


March 2019 at Women in Red

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Tech News: 2019-08

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

  • When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [1]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [2]

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23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Dispute resolution noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! –84.46.53.0 (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

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  4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

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Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Looking for help

Hi,

I was looking for some small help.Recently I created a new article en:Kithaab i.e. es:Kithaab-a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages. Looking for your possible help in translating the article en:Kithaab es:Kithaab to your language. If you are unable to spare time yourself then may be you like to refer the same to some other translator to get it translated in their own respective languages.


Thanking you , with warm regards

Bookku (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

"Too Long" warning, and suggestions?

I came across the warning banner posted at List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (1–99). The reason that other editors began posting the Farm to Market (/Ranch to Market) roads list in groups was that there was concern from other editors/admins that having individual FM/RM roads in individual articles would be troublesome in regards to amount of stub articles. It was decided by others to group the roads into articles of 100 routes each. Would grouping the routes by 50 each be better, to the point of it not being too many markup bytes? Thank you in advance for your perusal and time (hope all is well across the pond). Shaggylawn65 (talk) 23:04, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

@Shaggylawn65: Thank you. The article currently has 197,649 bytes of wiki-markup; I'd suggest diving it into at least four, so roads 1-25, 26-50, etc., depending on how much common boilerplate/citation material there is. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:22, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #353

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
    • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
    • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
    • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
    • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
    • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
    • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
    • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
    • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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.

Tech News: 2019-09

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

Changes later this week

  • When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [4]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:17, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

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  • Bytes in brief

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Thank you for your Thank you

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

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we thank you

February
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... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for article improvements in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:20, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #354

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
    • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
    • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
    • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
    • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
    • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
    • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
    • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
    • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
    • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
    • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
    • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
    • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
    • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
    • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
    • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
    • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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.


Tech News: 2019-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
  • The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [6][7]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Infobox settlement wrappers

More than two months, but now closed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_6#Infobox_settlement_wrappers

Candidates:

  1. {{Infobox Partido Argentina}} - 214 transclusions (80 departments [in 3 provinces : Corrientes, San Juan, Santiago del Estero], 134 partidos [Buenos Aires Province]) - all other departments in other provinces use Infobox settlement directly. To do so was decided in 2011 Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 July 14#Template:Infobox Argentinian Department. NOTE: BsAs Province is divided into partidos, all other provinces into departments.
  2. {{Infobox Peru region}} - 24 transclusions
  3. {{Infobox German state}} - 16 transclusions
  4. {{Infobox Bulgarian province}} - 28 transclusions
  5. {{Infobox Scotland county}} - 24 transclusions

78.55.9.197 (talk) 02:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

You're as welcome as anyone to nominate them for deletion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
You know there is discrimination against non-admins, new users, anons. Except for the first one all at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 16#Infobox settlement wrappers 77.183.150.15 (talk) 21:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

New batch of wrappers proposed for replacement: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 28#Infobox settlement wrappers 77.191.81.0 (talk) 03:00, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

6 support, 4 oppose, at least one with bogus reasoning and again an unplausible relist. 77.183.60.160 (talk) 10:42, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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