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The Signpost: 18 February 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
- In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
- Special report: Revision scoring as a service
- Traffic report: February is for lovers
- Gallery: Darwin Day
- Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
- Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?
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Wikidata weekly summary #146
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
- ViziData
- Update on data quality project
- Update on structured data for Commons
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
- Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
- Showcase items:Montblanc
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 25 February 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- Gallery: Far from home
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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Wikidata weekly summary #147
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
- Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
- Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
- Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
- Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
- New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
- There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
- Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
- Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
- Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
- You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
- Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
- Updated the json documentation
- Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
- Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
- Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
- Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
- Final touches on new header design
- Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
- More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
- Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
- Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 04 March 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
- Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
- Interview: Meet a paid editor
- Traffic report: Attack of the movies
- In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
- Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
- Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
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Wikidata weekly summary #148
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
- The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
- Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 11 March 2015
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- Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
- In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
- Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
- Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –
- Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters
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Wikidata weekly summary #149
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Wikidata graph generator
- Please help test the next step for header redesign
- Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
- Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
- Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
- Query generator spreadsheet
- Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
- Development
- Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
- Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
- Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
- Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
- Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 18 March 2015
[rediger kildetekst]- From the editor: A salute to Pine
- Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...
- Traffic report: It's not cricket
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