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
Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [1][2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)
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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [3]
There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [4]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [5][6]
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [7]
Changes later this week
Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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 create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [9][10]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [11]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [12]
Problems
Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [13]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [14]
Changes later this week
MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [15]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [17]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [18]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [19]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [20]
Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [21]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [22]
Changes later this week
You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [23]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
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
For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [24]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [25]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [26]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [27]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [28]
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
The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [29]
Changes later this week
The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [30]
Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
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
Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [31]
Problems
The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [32]
Changes later this week
Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [34][35]
With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [36][37]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [38]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).
Problems
A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [39][40]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.
The open source geocoder w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog.
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
Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [41]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [42]
Changes later this week
Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [43]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.
Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.
NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.
New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [44]
Changes later this week
Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [45]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [46]
Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.
Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
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 use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [47]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [48]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [49]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [50]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 september. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 september. It will be on all wikis from 5 september (calendar).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [51]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 september at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)
Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).
Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [56]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 oktober. It will be on all wikis from 3 oktober (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [57]
soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [59]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980
Tool of the week
ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
Other noteworthy stuff
We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
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 use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [60]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [61]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.
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
The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [62]
Problems
There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [63]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [64]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.
The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [65][66]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [67][68]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 oktober. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 oktober. It will be on all wikis from 31 oktober (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [69]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Happy birthday, Wikidata!
Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda
SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
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
At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [70]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [71]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
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
MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 november at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [72]
Changes later this week
You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [74]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [75]
Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
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
Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [76]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [77]
overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)
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
Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [78]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [79]
Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [80]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [81]
Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [82]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [83]
Laatste technieuws van de Wikimediatechnologiegemeenschap. Vertel dat alstublieft aan andere gebruikers over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen zullen effect op u hebben. Vertalingen blijven mogelijk.
Technisch nieuws
Wegens vakanties wordt de volgende versie van Technisch nieuws op 6 januari 2020 uitgezonden.
Recente wijzigingen
Alle mobiele websitegebruikers hebben nieuwe toevoegingen. Toevoegingen zijn: tabbladen voor pagina/discussies; een uitgebreide gebruikersmenu; direct toegang tot paginageschiedenissen. Deze toevoegingen zijn een deel van de "geavanceerde modus".
Veranderingen later deze week
Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week of volgende week.
Toekomstige veranderingen
U kunt setlang gebruiken in de URL voor het veranderen van de gebruikerinterfacetalen. Dit zal niet meer automatisch gebeuren. Als u de link opent kunt u gevraagd worden om de taalwijziging te bevestigen. Het is niet gebeurd dat Javascript niet meer werkt in uw browser. [84]
The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.
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
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [85]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.
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Laatste technieuws van de Wikimediatechnologiegemeenschap. Vertel dat alstublieft aan andere gebruikers over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen zullen effect op u hebben. Vertalingen blijven mogelijk.
Recente wijzigingen
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [86]
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Alleen automatisch bevestigde gebruikers toestaan and Alleen moderatoren. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [88]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 januari. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 januari. It will be on all wikis from 16 januari (calendar).
Future changes
Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [89]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [90]
Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team
Tool of the week
The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [91]
The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [92]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [93]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.
Laatste technisch nieuws van de Wikimediatechnologiegemeenschao. Vertel alstublieft andere gebruikers over deze veranderingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben effect op u. Vertalingen blijven beschikbaar.
Problemen
Sommige mobiele verschillen hebben een probleem. Een paar knoppen zijn niet getoond. Structurele dataverschillen op Commons zijn verwarrend. De ontwikkelaars zijn aan het werk om dit te fiksen. [94][95]
Moderatoren op wiki's die Structurele Discussies gebruiken kunnen de discussiepagina's niet verplaatsten. Dit is een bug. De ontwikkelaars zijn bezig om dit te fiksen. [96]
Veranderingen later deze week
Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week.
Toekomstige veranderingen
Er is JavaScript-code op Special:Undelete voor moderatoren, dat mogelijk maakt voor automatische selecteren meerdere checkboxes bij het houden van de "Shift"-knop en klikken. Deze code is per ongeluk ook geladen op andere speciale pagina's, en ook artikelen. Dit maakt pagina's langzamer te laden. Als u van andere speciale pagina's weet waar dit nu nog behulpzaam is, laat dat dan alstublieft weten aan de ontwikkelaars op phab:T232688.
VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.
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
There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [97]
Problems
There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [98]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [99]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [102]
Changes later this week
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [103]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [104]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [105]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 maart. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 maart. It will be on all wikis from 5 maart (calendar).
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [107]
Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
Fixing various production errors
Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)
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
There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [108][109][110]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [111]
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
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
There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [112]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [113][114]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [115][116]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [118]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [119]
Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [120]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [121]
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 use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [122]
There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [126][127][128]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [129]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.
COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube
Tool of the week
Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
create design system components to continue improving consistency
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [130]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [131]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [132]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
Tool of the week
zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube
Tool of the week
ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
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Recente wijzigingen
Iedereen kan nu foto's importeren van Flickr naar Commons met de UploadWizard. Voorheen konden alleen autopatrollers op Commons dit. [134]
Problemen en onderhoud
Commons zal voor een paar minuten in alleen-lezen modus gaan op 12 mei. Dit zal gebeuren rond 05:00 UTC. Dit is nodig voor databaseonderhoud. [135]
Diverse wiki's inclusief Wikidata zullen voor een paar minuten in alleen-lezen modus gaan op 19 mei. Dit zal gebeuren rond 05:00 UTC. De Engelstalige Wikipedia zal voor een paar minuten in alleen-lezen modus gaan op 21 mei 05:00 UTC. Dit is nodig voor databaseonderhoud. [136][137]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 12 mei beschikbaar zijn op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op projecten anders dan Wikipedia's (met uitzonderingen) beschikbaar zijn vanaf 13 mei. Vanaf 14 mei zal de nieuwe versie op alle projecten beschikbaar zijn. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
JavaScript scripts en gadgets zijn niet langer in staat om meerdere keys in één keer te controleren via mw.config.exists() of mw.user.tokens.exists(). Je kan in plaats daarvan exists() of get() gebruiken om keys één voor één te controleren. [138]
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube
Tool of the week
WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.
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Recente wijzigingen
Wanneer je je wachtwoord vergeten bent kan je een verzoek doen om een nieuw wachtwoord in je mail te ontvangen. Daarvoor moet je je mailadres of je gebruikersnaam weten. Nu is er een optie om hiervoor het mailadres èn de gebruikersnaam te vereisen. Hier kan je zelf voor kiezen in je voorkeuren. Hiermee kan voorkomen worden dat je wachtwoord-resetmails krijgt die iemand anders heeft aangevraagd. Deze instellingen is nu beschikbaar op alle Wikimedia wikis. [139][140]
Problemen en onderhoud
Er is een softwarefout die problemen veroorzaakt voor Iphone gebruikers met iOS13 en de Safari webbrowser. Als je een Iphone gebruikt om Wikipedia te lezen en bewerken en je ziet fouten op de mobiele site dan kan je die melden. [141]
Diverse wiki's inclusief Wikidata zullen voor een paar minuten in alleen-lezen modus gaan op 19 mei. Dit zal gebeuren rond 05:00 UTC. De Engelstalige Wikipedia zal voor een paar minuten in alleen-lezen modus gaan op 21 mei 05:00 UTC. Dit is nodig voor databaseonderhoud. [142][143]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De Wikipedia app voor Android laat gebruikers "depicts" toevoegen op Commons. De betaversie gebruikte AI-ondersteuning voor het aanmerken van afbeeldingen. Deze ondersteuning is verwijderd om meer specifieke "depicts" te verkrijgen. [144]
Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week.
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Diagrammen zullen gerenderd worden in de browser van de lezer. Hiervoor zal JavaScript gebruikt worden. Diagrammen zullen hopelijk beter werken voor iedereen die JavaScript gebruikt. Het zal niet werken voor gebruikers die geen Javascript gebruiken. [145]
Een deel van de CSS voor de thema's (Vector, MinervaNeue, Modern, Monobook, Timeless) is versimpeld. Dit heeft invloed op div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants en div#footer. Die zullen div moeten verwijderen. Je zult je gadgets, scripts en/of custom CSS moeten updaten. Dit is nodig voor ons om HTML5 te gebruiken. [146]
Een deel van de CSS voor het Vector-thema is gewijzigd. Dit heeft invloed op #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views en #p-cactions. Deze kunnen geen gebruik meer maken van > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how. Je zult je gadgets, scripts en/of custom CSS mogelijk moeten updaten. Dit is nodig voor ons om HTML5 te gebruiken. Zie hier hoe.
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Wijzigingen later deze week
De visuele tekstverwerker werkt nu ook in het "Modern" thema. De veranderingen die nodig waren om dit werkende te krijgen kunnen problemen veroorzaken voor sommige scripts en gadgets. [147]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 26 mei beschikbaar zijn op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op projecten anders dan Wikipedia's (met uitzonderingen) beschikbaar zijn vanaf 27 mei. Vanaf 28 mei zal de nieuwe versie op alle projecten beschikbaar zijn. (kalender)
Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook
Tool of the week
If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda
The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube
Tool of the week
wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
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Recente wijzigingen
Er is een nieuwe betaversie van de Wikimedia Commons app voor Android. Deze beschikt over een nieuwe zoom-functie bij het bekijken van afbeeldingen. De app kan ook voorstellen doen voor locaties bij het uploaden van foto's met coördinaten. [148]
Problemen en onderhoud
Er was een probleem met de Commons database op 27 mei. Commons kon toen voor 8 minuten niet bewerkt worden. Daarnaast was er ook een korte periode waarin Commons niet bewerkt kon worden op 29 mei wegens het verplaatsen van de database. [149][150][151]
Het Vector thema had een probleem waardoor de "In andere talen"-sectie in het menu links ontbrak wanneer een artikel nog niet aan een equivalent artikel in een andere taal was gekoppeld. Dit probleem is verholpen. [152]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Je kan een melding krijgen wanneer iemand een pagina linkt die jij hebt aangemaakt. Je kan deze melding nu uitschakelen voor individuele pagina's. Binnenkort kan je deze melding ook uitschakelen binnen de melding zelf. [153]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 2 juni uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 3 juni uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 4 juni zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube
Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube
Tool of the week
QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)
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Recente wijzigingen
Sommige artikelen hebben tabellen die op verschillende manieren gesorteerd kunnen worden. Een lijst met landen kan bijvoorbeeld op alfabetische volgorde gesorteerd zijn, maar door op de kolom voor oppervlakte te klikken sorteer je de tabel op oppervlakte. Als je de kolom nog een keer aanklikte draaide de volgorde om. Een derde klik brengt nu de oorspronkelijke sortering terug. [154]
Op zichzelf staande tags (zonder afsluitende tag) werken nu zoals beschreven in de HTML5 specificatie. Sommige op zichzelf staande tags zoals <b/> kunnen daardoor niet meer gebruikt worden. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr kunnen wel als op zichzelf staande tag gebruikt worden. Pagina's met tags die niet op zichzelf zouden moeten staan werden sinds 2016 gecategoriseerd in een onderhoudscategorie. Ze zijn voortaan terug te vinden op Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. Dit heeft geen invloed op <references /> of <ref />. [155]
Er is een banner genaamd WikidataPageBanner. Deze is in gebruik op projecten als Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Rusland en de Catalaanse, Baskische, Galicische en Turkse Wikipedias. Gebruikers van de mobiele site zien deze banner nu ook. Voorheen was deze alleen zichtbaar op de reguliere site. De wikis wordt aanbevolen om de instructies op MediaWiki:Sitenotice bij te werken zodat gebruikers weten dat ze rekening moeten houden met gebruikers van de mobiele site. [156][157]
Wijzigingen later deze week
MassMessage-beschrijvingen kunnen nu aangepast worden via de API. Dit is zinvol voor tools en gadgets. [158]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 9 juni beschikbaar zijn op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op projecten anders dan Wikipedia's (met uitzonderingen) beschikbaar zijn vanaf 10 juni. Vanaf 11 juni zal de nieuwe versie op alle projecten beschikbaar zijn. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Een tijdelijke fix uit 2012 hielp wikis om hun hoofdpagina's beter bruikbaar te maken op mobiele apparaten. Gebruik hiervan is sinds 2017 niet meer aanbevolen. Wikis zouden in plaats daarvan TemplateStyles moeten gebruiken. 118 wikis doen dit nog niet. Je kan hier meer lezen en zien of jouw wiki al om is. [159]
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
Part 1 - Meet Ewan, WiR at the Uni' of Edinburgh - YouTube
Part 2 - the Witch Hunts projects & Wikidata - YouTube
Part 3 - Why Wikidata is important for education - YouTube
Tool of the week
Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)
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Recent changes
Toolforge host diverse zaken die helpen met het bewerken van Wikimedia projecten zoals statistieken van bijdragen en geavanceerde methodes om pagina's te bewerken. Het domein van Toolforge gaat veranderen van tools.wmflabs.org naar toolforge.org. De tools zelf zijn voortaan te vinden op naam-van-tool.toolforge.org in plaats van tools.wmflabs.org/naam-van-tool. Zie details voor meer info. Tools die OAuth gebruiken zullen bijgewerkt moeten worden om te blijven werken. Je kan om hulp vragen.
Problemen en onderhoud
Er is een Wikidata item link in de menubalk links op veel pagina's. Deze link was door een bug verdwenen voor een paar dagen voor gebruikers van de Monobook skin. Deze bug is gefixt. [160]
Inloggen, uitloggen en het bewerken van pagina's werkte tijdelijk niet goed afgelopen week. Dit probleem is verholpen. [161]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 16 juni uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 17 juni uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 18 juni zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Pywikibot is een Python bibliotheek die repetitief werk op wikis kan automatiseren. Pywikibot zal Python 2 niet meer ondersteunen in de nieuwe versie die volgende maand uitkomt. Ondersteuning voor Python 3.4 en MediaWiki versies ouder dan 1.19 komt dan ook te vervallen. Migreer naar Python 3 om problemen te voorkomen. Je kan om hulp vragen. [162]
De CSS klassen .menu en .vectorMenu zullen niet meer werken in het Vector thema. Dit kan invloed hebben op gadgets en scripts. .menu moet vervangen worden door ul. .vectorMenu moet vervangen worden door .vector-menu. [163]
Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). phab:T254172
Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project
Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
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Problemen en onderhoud
Er zijn een aantal nieuwe features beschikbaar op sommige wikis om bijdragen van nieuwe gebruikers te stimuleren. Deze wikis hadden tijdelijk een probleem met de visuele tekstverwerker afgelopen week door een fout in de nieuwe features. Dit probleem was snel verholpen. [164]
Sommige userscripts en gadgets werken niet meer door een aanpassing aan de CSS klassen. .vectorTabs moet vervangen worden door .vector-menu-tabs om dit probleem te verhelpen. [165]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De ontwikkelaars werken aan een nieuwe interface om bewerkingsconflicten op overlegpagina's te voorkomen. Deze interface zal op 24 juni worden uitgebracht. Je kan feedback geven. [166]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 23 juni uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 24 juni uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 25 juni zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Een tijdelijke fix uit 2012 hielp wikis om hun hoofdpagina's beter bruikbaar te maken op mobiele apparaten. Gebruik hiervan is sinds 2017 niet meer aanbevolen. Na 13 juli werkt dit niet meer. Wikis zouden in plaats daarvan TemplateStyles moeten gebruiken. 91 wikis doen dit nog niet. Je kan hier meer lezen en zien of jouw wiki al om is. Van de Nederlandse projecten moet alleen Wikipedia nog actie ondernemen. [167]
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
More work on consistency of user interface components
Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Iedereen was uitgelogd. Deze maatregel was genomen omdat een aantal gebruikers rapporteerden dat ze de wikis zagen alsof ze ingelogd waren in andermans account. Dit zou nu verholpen moeten zijn. [168]
Sommige lezers konden gedurende 10 dagen nieuwe bijdragen aan pagina's niet zien. Wanneer de pagina recent was gewijzigd zagen ze een oudere versie van de pagina. Dit gebeurde alleen bij gebruikers die niet ingelogd waren. Dit probleem is verholpen. [169]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 30 juni uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 1 juli uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 1 juli zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
De Modern en Monobook thema's gebruiken searchGoButton als ID voor de zoekknop (het vergrootglas) terwijl het Vector thema searchButton gebruikt. Modern en Monobook worden gelijkgetrokken met Vector zodat alle thema's straks searchButton zullen gebruiken. Dit kan invloed hebben op gadgets en userscripts. De omschakeling is op 23 juli. Gadgets en userscripts moeten waar nodig voor die datum aangepast worden. Er is meer informatie en een lijst van getroffen scripts beschikbaar.
Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.
Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problems
The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [170]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 7 juli uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 8 juli uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 9 juli zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Abstract Wikipedia is een nieuw Wikimedia project. Het doel van het project is om taalneutrale informatie te verzamelen die eenvoudig in verschillende talen gelezen kan worden. Het maakt gebruik van Wikidata. De naam staat nog niet vast. Lees verder. [171]
Een aantal vereisten voor ondertekeningen zullen binnenkort gehandhaafd worden. Lintfouten, invalide HTML en nested substitution zullen niet meer toegestaan worden in ondertekeningen van gebruikers. Een link naar je gebruikerspagina, overlegpagina of gebruikersbijdragen zal een vereiste zijn. Je kan controleren of je huidige ondertekening voldoet aan de nieuwe vereisten. De nieuwe vereisten worden ingevoerd omdat sommige ondertekeningen problemen kunnen veroorzaken voor gadgets, scripts of andere tekst op de pagina.
Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
More work on the consistent design system
More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Gebruikers kunnen anderen bedanken voor hun bewerkingen. CheckUsers kunnen nu gebruikersgegevens zien gerelateerd aan die actie. Dit kan helpen bij het identificeren van sokpoppen die anderen lastig vallen door overmatig gebruik van de bedankfunctie. [172]
Problemen en onderhoud
Iedereen werd een paar weken geleden uitgelogd om een veiligheidsprobleem op te lossen. Het probleem was helaas niet helemaal opgelost. Daarom werd iedereen vorige week weer uitgelogd. [173][174]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Wiki's die niet voor één specifieke taal zijn kunnen pagina's vertalen. Soms zijn delen van de vertalingen verouderd of ontbreken ze. Verouderde vertalingen worden nu al gemarkeerd met een roze achtergrond. Ontbrekende vertalingen worden binnenkort ook gemarkeerd. Deze markering kan soms problemen veroorzaken. Daarom zal het binnenkort ook mogelijk zijn om de markering uit te schakelen door gebruik te maken van <translate nowrap></translate> op de bronpagina. [175]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 14 juli uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 15 juli uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 16 juli zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Wikimedia code review is van plan om gebruik te maken van GitLab en moet gaan draaien op Wikimedia-servers. [176][177][178][179]
Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) FacebookYouTube
Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 FacebookYouTube
Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Een tijdelijke fix uit 2012 hielp wikis om hun hoofdpagina mobielvriendelijk te maken. Gebruik van deze fix is al sinds 2017 niet meer aanbevolen. Deze tijdelijke fix is uitgeschakeld op 14 juli. 60 wikis hebben nu een hoofdpagina die niet geoptimaliseerd is voor mobiel gebruik. Welke dat zijn en hoe dit verholpen kan worden kan je lezen op Phabricator. Van de Nederlandse projecten betreft dit alleen Wikipedia. Dit is hetzelfde issue waarover is geschreven in Technieuws 2020/24 en 2020/26.
Problemen en onderhoud
Er is een probleem met de links in de sectie "In andere talen": de volgorde is verkeerd. De ontwikkelaars werken aan een oplossing. [180]
Sommige gebruikers krijgen herhaaldelijk notificaties voor dezelfde gebeurtenis. In sommige gevallen gaat dit om gebeurtenissen die langer geleden hebben plaatsgevonden. [181]
Sommige gebruikers hebben problemen met inloggen. Dit is vermoedelijk een probleem met cookies. De ontwikkelaars zijn nog bezig met het vaststellen van de oorzaak. Als je problemen hebt met inloggen kan je dat doorgeven op Phabricator. [182]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 21 juli uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 22 juli uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 23 juli zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
De Afdrukversie link gaat verdwijnen omdat moderne browsers zelf een printversie kunnen genereren. [183]
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
De Starter kit is nu beschikbaar voor wikigemeenschappen. Dit is een pagina met een overzicht van technische zaken die een startende wiki nodig heeft. Dit is voornamelijk nuttig voor wikigemeenschappen die hier zelf geen of beperkte ervaring mee hebben. [184]
De eerste features van het desktop verbeteringen project zijn nu beschikbaar voor alle ingelogde gebruikers op alle wikis. Om de nieuwe features te gebruiken moet Gebruik de Legacy Vector in de lokale of globale voorkeuren uitgeschakeld worden in de Vormgevingsvoorkeuren sectie. Meer verbeteringen zitten in de pijplijn. Feedback is welkom.
De reguliere uitrol van nieuwe versies van de MediaWiki software is deze week gepauzeerd. [185][186]
Translation Notification Bot stuurde hetzelfde bericht meerdere malen naar iedere vertaler. Dit probleem is verholpen. [187]
Sommige gebruikers ontvingen dezelfde notificatie meerdere malen. Dit probleem is verholpen. [188]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 28 juli uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 29 juli uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 30 juli zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 FacebookYouTube
Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) FacebookYouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 FacebookYouTube
Tool of the week
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Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing
SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Alle verzoeken richting de Wikidata Query Service tussen 17:50 en 17:59 UTC op donderdag 23 juli werden niet afgehandeld. Voor enige tijd daarna is een deel van de verzoeken niet afgehandeld. [189]
Het probleem met de onjuiste volgorde van links in de sectie "In andere talen" is verholpen. Dit is hetzelfde probleem waarover in twee weken geleden in Technieuws is geschreven. [190]
Er is een probleem met de globale voorkeuren voor de "Gebruik de Legacy Vector" optie. De ontwikkelaars werken aan een oplossing. [191]
Door een fout in de Wikibase extensie werkte de beveiliging tegen het verplaatsen en aanmaken van pagina's in de hoofdnaamruimte (Gallerij) van Wikimedia Commons niet goed. Pagina's konden niet beveiligd worden en de beveiliging op reeds beveiligde pagina's werkte niet. Dit probleem is verholpen. [192]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De videospeler zal eenvoudiger en moderner gemaakt worden. Deze week zal de huidige beta-videospeler de standaard speler worden voor iedereen op de meeste non-Wikipedia wikis. De oude speler zal verwijderd worden. [193]
Persoonlijke global.js en global.css in de gebruikersnaamruimte worden nu ook geladen op de mobiele site. In de documentatie kan je lezen hoe je stijlen kan gebruiken zonder het mobiele thema te beinvloeden. [194]
In het MonoBook thema is het ID voor de zoekknop veranderd van searchGoButton naar searchButton. Dit kan invloed hebben op CSS en JS gadgets. Migratieinstructies zijn te vinden in Phabricator ticket T255953. Dit is eerder vermeld in Technieuws 2020/27.
Botbeheerders kunnen nu Pywikibot gebruiken om periodiek discussies te archiveren. Het gedrag wanneer de bot counter gebruikt om (te) grote archieven te voorkomen is aangepast. [195]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 4 augustus uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 5 augustus uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 6 augustus zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
FileImporter en FileExporter zijn nu standaard beschikbaar op alle wikis. Hiermee kan je bestanden van lokale wikis overzetten naar Wikimedia Commons met behoud van alle informatie en bewerkingsgeschiedenis. [196]
Problemen en onderhoud
Op de mobiele site is onderaan de pagina een balk met informatie over de laatste bewerking van de pagina. In deze balk was ruwe wikitext te zien. Dit probleem is verholpen. In Flow en tijdens het vertalen van content kunnen nog steeds berichten zichtbaar zijn als ruwe wikitext. De ontwikkelaars werken aan een oplossing. [197]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 11 augustus uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 12 augustus uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 13 augustus zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Alle wikis kunnen op 1 september gedurende een paar minuten niet bewerkt worden. Dit is gepland tussen 13:30 en 15:30 UTC. Meer informatie zal gepubliceerd worden in Technieuws en in de komende weken gepost worden op individuele wikis. [198][199]
Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube
Tool of the week
Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)
Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Als je een bewerking ongedaan maakt via de "ongedaan maken" link dan wordt de bewerking gemarkeerd met het Ongedaan maken label. Dit zal voortaan alleen nog gebeuren wanneer er verder niets is aangepast aan de inhoud. Hiermee wordt voorkomen dat gebruikers een bewerking het label "ongedaan maken" geven wanneer ze eigenlijk een ander soort bewerking hebben gedaan. [200]
De nieuwe versie van OOUI zal niet compatible zijn met Internet Explorer 8. Hierdoor zullen wiki's er vreemd uitzien en niet goed werken in IE8. Het voortzetten van de ondersteuning voor een internetbrowser van meer dan 10 jaar oud is niet rendabel. Dit is eerder gemeld in Technieuws 2020/17. [201]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 18 augustus uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 19 augustus uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 20 augustus zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Alle wiki's kunnen op 1 september gedurende een paar minuten niet bewerkt worden. Dit is gepland tussen 13:30 en 15:30 UTC. Meer informatie zal gepubliceerd worden in Technieuws en de komende week gepost worden op individuele wiki's. Je kan helpen door het de aankondiging te vertalen. [202][203]
Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.
e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]
Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 25 augustus uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 26 augustus uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 27 augustus zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.
Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Herinnering: alle wiki's kunnen op 1 september gedurende een paar minuten niet bewerkt worden. Dit is gepland tussen 14:00 en 15:00 UTC. Bekijk de details in het aankondigingsbericht. [204][205]
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
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Wijzigingen later deze week
Er is een nieuw gebruikersrecht dat het mogelijk maakt om bij het hernoemen van een pagina, als het doel een bestaande doorverwijzing (#REDIRECT) is, deze te overschrijven. Dit zal alleen werken als de bestaande doorverwijzing geen verdere bewerkingsgeschiedenis heeft. Voorheen was dit alleen mogelijk wanneer de doorverwijzing verwees naar de pagina die je wil hernoemen. [206]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 8 september uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 9 september uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 10 september zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
De MediaWiki API modules gebruiken voortaan watchlist in plaats van watch. Dit was voorheen niet consistent. [207]
OTRS zal worden bijgewerkt naar een nieuwe versie. Dit gaat ongeveer twee dagen duren gedurende welke OTRS-teamleden geen toegang tot het systeem zullen hebben. Mails die binnenkomen gedurende deze tijd zullen worden afgeleverd wanneer de nieuwe versie operationeel is. De planning is om de installatie van de nieuwe versie te starten op 14 september rond 08:00 UTC, maar dit staat nog niet vast. [208]
De Wikipedia Android app zal push notificaties sturen wanneer de gebruiker dat wenst. Zo blijf je makkelijker op de hoogte wanneer iemand een bericht achterlaat op je overlegpagina of je bewerking ongedaan maakt. Google Play Services zijn vereist om dit te laten werken. De app werkt ook zonder Google Play Services, maar dan werken de push notificaties niet. [209][210]
Wikimedia code review gaat mogelijk verhuizen naar GitLab, dit zou gehost worden op de Wikimedia servers. Neem deel aan de consultatie.
Menu's in het Vector thema gebruiken de .menu, .vectorTabs en .vectorMenuCSS klassen, maar dit gaat veranderen. Sommige bestaande scripts en gadgets moeten aangepast worden om te blijven werken. Meer informatie op Phabricator.
"Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.
Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Vertel anderen over deze wijzigingen. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
De Wikipedia apps lieten kortstondig pagina's zonder CSS opmaak zien afgelopen week waardoor ze er niet goed uitzagen. Dit probleem was snel verholpen maar CSS-loze pagina's in cache waren daarna nog voor een paar uur te zien. [211][212]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 15 september uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 16 september uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 17 september zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Tool of the week
copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest
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Recente wijzigingen
Er is een nieuw label voor bewerkingen die ongedaan zijn gemaakt. Dit label zal zichtbaar zijn op bewerkingen die ongedaan zijn gemaakt (undo), teruggedraaid (rollback) of handmatig ongedaan zijn gemaakt. Dit kan helpen bij het opsporen van gebruikers die hulp nodig hebben en vandalen. [213][214]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Het aantal bewerkingen en andere acties die een gebruiker kan uitvoeren binnen een bepaalde tijd is beperkt. (ratelimit) Sommige gebruikers (bijvoorbeeld moderators) hebben geen limiet. (noratelimit gebruikersrecht) Gebruikers die geen limiet hebben kunnen binnenkort de limiet zien die ze zouden hebben als ze geen onderdeel waren van een groep die alle limieten wegneemt. [215]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 22 september uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 23 september uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 24 september zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous formuntil September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the Pagina's die ik aanmaak en bestanden die ik upload aan mijn volglijst toevoegen setting enabled. (The Pagina's en bestanden die ik bewerk aan mijn volglijst toevoegen setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)
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Gebruikers worden automatisch toegevoegd aan sommige gebruikersgroepen wanneer ze aan bepaalde criteria voldoen, bijvoorbeeld autobevestigde gebruikers. Abuse filters kunnen gebruikers uit groepen halen en/of tijdelijk voorkomen dat gebruikers automatisch aan een dergelijke groep worden toegevoegd. Wiki's kunnen nu een verzoek indienen op Phabricator om de lengte van die periode te wijzigen. Op dit moment is de periode 5 dagen. [217]
Problemen en onderhoud
Vorig jaar hielden sommie abuse filters ermee op door een wijziging. Wanneer het filter probeerde een variable te gebruiken die niet beschikbaar was voor de betreffende actie dan werkte het filter in het geheel niet meer. Dit probleem is nu verholpen. [218]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 29 september uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 30 september uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 1 oktober zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Je kan de links naar andere taalversies van een pagina niet zien vanaf de overlegpagina, paginageschiedenis of wanneer je de pagina aan het bewerken bent. Hier zou verandering in kunnen komen, maar dit is nog onbeslist. Zo is bijvoorbeeld nog niet besloten of de paginageschiedenis zou moeten linken naar de paginageschiedenis in een andere talen of het artikel in andere talen. Als je interesse hebt kan je deelnemen aan de discussie op Phabricator.
De kleuren van links gaan mogelijk veranderen om het verschil tussen links en gewone tekst duidelijker te maken. Je kan meer lezen op Phabricator.
In je voorkeuren kan je ervoor kiezen om meldingen te ontvangen via het web of per mail. Later deze week komt daar Apps als op optie bij. De Android en iOS Wikipedia apps kunnen dan pushnotificaties sturen naar gebruikers die dat willen. Er komt ook een nieuwe interne API module. Je kan de voorkeuren en [$testapi API module] alvast zien op testwiki. Het doel is om pushnotificaties op Android te hebben in oktober en op iOS begin 2021. [219]
Binnenkort kan je pagina's op je volglijst zetten met een houdbaarheidsdatum. Dit is nuttig als je een pagina wel wilt volgen, maar niet voor eeuwig. Het werkt al op mediawiki.org en meer wiki's zullen volgen. Lees hier meer en kijk wanneer jouw wiki aan de beurt is.
In de Coolest Tool Award kan je zien welke tools de Wikimedianen het beste vinden dit jaar. Je kan natuurlijk ook zelf een tool nomineren!
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
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Recente wijzigingen
Er is een nieuwe tool waarin je snel kan zien wat de thuiswiki is van de participanten in een discussie op Metawiki. Hiermee kan je vaststellen of leden van alle wiki's waarop de discussie invloed kan hebben ook daadwerkelijk deelnemen aan de discussie.
Je kan gebruikers nu bedanken voor het uploaden van bestanden of het veranderen van de taal van een pagina. [220]
Problemen en onderhoud
Er waren diverse problemen met de nieuwe MediaWiki versie afgelopen week. De oude versie is daarom teruggezet, de beschikbaarheid van vernieuwingen van de nieuwe versie is dus vertraagd. [221]
Iedereen was uitgelogd. Een gebruiker had gemeld plots te zijn ingelogd op andermans account, zodoende is iedereen geforceerd uitgelogd om veiligheidsredenen. Het probleem zou nu verholpen moeten zijn. [222]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 6 oktober uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 7 oktober uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 8 oktober zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Het gedrag van de linkweergave op Arabische wiki's is aangepast. [223]
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Voor maximaal een uur zijn de wiki's niet te bewerken op 27 oktober rond 14:00 (UTC), waarschijnlijk korter. Je kan pagina's wel gewoon lezen. [224]
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Vanwege problemen met de MediaWiki versie van twee weken geleden komen de updates van afgelopen week ook later dan verwacht. [225][226][227]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Live previews lieten de gebruikte sjablonen niet zien in de voorbeeldweergave (preview) als je net een sectie had bewerkt. Dit is nu verholpen. Tevens zijn live previews nu uitgeschakeld voor CSS en JavaScript pagina's zoals Special:MyPage/common.js omdat je je aanpassingen niet kon testen in de voorbeeldweergave met met live previews. [228][229]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 13 oktober uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 14 oktober uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 15 oktober zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Een nieuwe stabiele versie van Pywikibot komt binnenkort uit. [230]
The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 20 oktober uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 21 oktober uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 22 oktober zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Voor maximaal een uur zijn de wiki's niet te bewerken op 27 oktober rond 14:00 (UTC), waarschijnlijk korter. Je kan pagina's wel gewoon lezen. [231]
In de AbuseFilter extensie zal de rmspecials() functie binnenkort worden aangepast zodat die niet langer het "spatie" karakter zal verwijderen. Wiki's worden aanbevolen om waar nodig code aan te passen zodat rmspecials() binnen rmwhitespace() wordt gebruikt zodat het gedrag van filters hetzelfde blijft. Je kan de zoekfunctie van Special:AbuseFilter gebruiken om instanties van rmspecials() te vinden. [232]
Een aantal gadgets en userscripts gebruiken de HTML div met het ID #jump-to-nav. Deze div zal binnenkort verwijderd worden. In scripts en gadgets zal #jump-to-nav vervangen moeten worden door #siteSub of #mw-content-text. Een lijst van scripts die mogelijk aangepast moeten is te vinden op phab:T265373.
Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
Tool of the week
WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Voor maximaal een uur zijn de wiki's niet te bewerken op 27 oktober rond 14:00 (UTC), waarschijnlijk korter. Je kan pagina's wel gewoon lezen. [233]
Afgelopen week lieten de links naar paginawijzigingen op mobiele sites (Speciaal:MobielVerschillen) een paginarevisie zien in plaats van de wijziging. Dit is nu verholpen. [234]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week.
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Sinds de introductie van de interfacemoderatoren gebruikersgroep in 2018 konden "gewone" moderatoren de verwijderde geschiedenis van CSS- en JS-pagina's niet meer zien. Nu kunnen ze dit weer wel. [235]
Er was een probleem met de wijzigingslabels. De software voegde het "Ongedaan gemaakt" label toe aan pagina-acties zoals het beveiligen van een pagina als die actie direct volgde op een teruggedraaide wijziging. Dit is voor nieuwe wijzingen/acties verholpen. [236]
De Reply tool zal binnenkort worden aangeboden als Beta Feature op de meeste Wikipedia's. Op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia is deze al beschikbaar, zie "Overleghulpmiddelen" onder voorkeuren.[237]
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Als je browser een oude versie van TLS gebruikt kan je de Wikimedia wikis niet meer bezoeken sinds 29 oktober 2020. De ondersteuning van oudere TLS-versies door Wikimedia kon misbruikt worden voor een downgrade aanval die in theorie ook uitgevoerd kon worden op gebruikers met een recente browser. Een lijst van aanbevolen browsers is beschikbaar. [238]
Er is een nieuwe automatische volgcategorie beschikbaar: Pagina's met niet-numerieke formatnum-argumenten. Hier worden pagina's verzameld die de {{formatnum}} parserfunctie gebruiken met foutieve invoer, bijvoorbeeld {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Let op dat {{formatnum:123,456}} ook fout is, zoals beschreven in de documentatie moet de invoer vrij zijn van regionale notatie zodat het correct kan worden omgezet naar de juiste notatie voor de gebruiker. De volgcategorie helpt met het vinden van problematisch gebruik van de parserfunctie. [239]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 3 november uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 4 november uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 5 november zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Moderators en stewards kunnen straks via een speciale pagina (Special:CreateLocalAccount) geforceerd een lokaal account aanmaken voor een bestaand globaal account. Dit is nuttig wanneer een blokkade of filter ongewenst een hindernis vormt voor een gebruiker om een account aan te maken. [240]
De Reply tool zal op 4 november op de meeste Wikipedia's (exclusief de Engels-, Russisch- en Duitstalige Wikipedia's) beschikbaar zijn als Beta Feature. Op de Nederlandse Wikipedia is de reply tool reeds beschikbaar. ("Overleghulpmiddelen" onder voorkeuren) Zie de hulppagina en probleemoplossing voor meer informatie. [241]
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Een discussie is herstart over het gebruik van het Unicode "minus" karakter (− U+2212) in de uitvoer van {{formatnum}} wanneer de invoer negatief is. [242]
In de toekomst zullen IP adressen van ongeregistreerde gebruikers niet meer voor iedereen zichtbaar zijn. In plaats daarvan krijgen deze gebruikers een publiek zichtbaar alias. Er komt een nieuw gebruikersrecht of opt-in functie voor vandalismebestrijders om het IP van ongeregistreerde gebruikers te kunnen zien. Er zullen criteria gevormd worden om te bepalen wie dit recht krijgt. Er komen ook andere gereedschappen om te helpen met de afhandeling van vandalisme. Dit proces is nog in volle gang en de ontwikkelaars zijn nog bezig met het verzamelen van informatie van de gemeenschappen voor ze oplossingen gaan voorstellen.
Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC
Tool of the week
Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)
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Reference previews laten een voorbeeldweergave zien van een voetnoot zonder de artikeltekst te verlaten. Deze feature is reeds beschikbaar als beta feature in de voorkeuren. Binnenkort verlaat deze feature het betastadium en zal standaard worden ingeschakeld met een optie om dit weer uit te schakelen. De ontwikkelaars zijn op zoek naar kleine of middelgrote wikis om het voortouw te nemen. Als jouw wiki interesse heeft neem dan contact op. [243]
Vanaf 16 november zullen categorieën tijdelijk niet juist gesorteerd zijn omdat de ontwikkelaars bezig zijn met het updaten van de internationalisatiebibliotheek. Een script zal gebruikt worden om de bestaande categorieën te herstellen. Dit kan een paar uur tot een paar dagen duren afhankelijk van hoe groot de wiki is. Meer informatie is beschikbaar. [244][245]
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Vanaf 16 november zullen categorieën tijdelijk niet juist gesorteerd zijn omdat de ontwikkelaars dan de internationalisatiebibliotheek updaten. Een script zal gebruikt worden om de bestaande categorieën te herstellen. Dit kan een paar uur tot een paar dagen duren afhankelijk van hoe groot de wiki is. Meer informatie is beschikbaar. [246][247]
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Bij het samenvoegen van twee pagina's (alleen mogelijk voor moderators) in een naamruimte waar doorverwijzingen niet gebruikt kunnen worden ging het proces de mist in. Dit zal binnenkort verholpen worden. [248]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 17 november uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 18 november uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 19 november zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
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Er kunnen tot 30 november voorstellen ingediend worden voor de Community Wenslijst Enquête voor 2021. Het Community Tech team gebruikt deze input om te bepalen waar ze aan gaan werken. Stemmen op voorstellen kan vanaf 8 december tot 21 december.
Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".
Tool of the week
ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)
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De tijdsaanduidingen in Speciaal:Logboeken zijn nu links naar de betreffende actie of wijziging in Speciaal:Logboeken, vergelijkbaar met hoe de tijdsaanduiding werkt in de paginageschiedenis. [249]
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De Wikimedia Cloud VPS host technische projecten voor de Wikimedia beweging. Ontwikkelaars moeten de projecten die ze gebruiken claimen omdat oude en ongebruikte projecten eens per jaar worden verwijderd. Ongeclaimde projecten kunnen vanaf 1 december uit de lucht worden gehaald. Vanaf 1 januari kunnen ze verwijderd worden. [250]
ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube
Tool of the week
EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 1 december uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 2 december uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 3 december zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
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De weergave van de artikelgeschiedenis in de iOS Wikipedia app gaat verbeteren waardoor het makkelijker zal worden om nieuwe wijzigingen te zien en hoe een artikel met het verloop van de tijd is aangepast. Dit is een experiment en zal initieel alleen zichtbaar zijn voor een deel van de iOS app gebruikers als onderdeel van een A/B test. [251][252]
De Wiki Replicas kunnen gebruikt worden voor SQL met bijvoorbeeld Quarry en PAWS. Om de Wiki Replicas stabiel te houden staan er twee dingen op de planning: cross-database JOINS zullen in de toekomst niet meer werken. Daarnaast kan je alleen nog met de database werken van het project waarlangs je de verbinding met de database hebt gemaakt. Deze wijzigingen zullen in februari 2021 doorgevoerd worden. Als je denkt hier mogelijk last van te ondervinden en je hebt hulp nodig dan kan je een bericht achterlaten op Phabricator of op Wikitech. [253]
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Zoals aangekondigd in week 40 is het nu mogelijk om pagina's op je volglijst zetten met een houdbaarheidsdatum. Op sommige wiki's kon dit al eerder. [254][255]
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Informatie van Wikidata die in gebruik is op een wiki pagina kan getoond worden in "Recente wijzigingen" en volglijsten op Wikimedia wiki's. Om dit in te schakelen moet je "Wikidata-bewerkingen op mijn volglijst/in recente wijzigingen weergeven" aanzetten in je voorkeuren voor recente wijzingen en de voorkeuren voor je volglijst. Wijzigingen in de Wikidata beschrijving in de taal van een Wikimedia wiki zullen dan getoond worden in "Recente wijzingen" en je volglijst. Wijzigingen in talen die niet relevant zijn voor jouw wiki worden niet getoond. [256][257]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 8 december uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 9 december uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 10 december zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!
Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (phab:T269102)
Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (phab:T191831)
Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (phab:T263258)
Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (phab:T268625)
Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository
Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
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De Wikipedia app voor telefoons met KaiOS is nu wereldwijd beschikbaar. De app was in september al uit in India. [258]
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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 15 december uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 16 december uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 17 december zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)
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Tech Nieuws
Vanwege de feestdagen zal de volgende uitgave van Tech Nieuws op 11 januari 2021 gepubliceerd worden.
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Het {{Bron?}} sjabloon kan gebruikt worden wanneer een statement in een artikel op Wikipedia een bron nodig heeft. Als je daarop klikt in de visuele tekstverwerker krijg je een popup die dat uitlegt. Nu kan deze popup ook de reden laten zien en wanneer het bronverzoek is toegevoegd. [259]
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Je kan voorstellen doen en bediscussiëren welke technische verbeteringen nodig zijn voor geografische informatie zoals coördinaten, kaarten en gerelateerde zaken.
Sommige wiki's gebruiken LanguageConverter om te schakelen tussen schriften of taalvarianten. Dit is nu alleen mogelijk voor de gehele pagina, maar er komt een <langconvert> tag waarmee een deel van de pagina kan worden omgezet. [260]
Oversighters and stewards kunnen zaken in Special:AbuseLog verbergen. Begin januari kunnen ze meerdere zaken tegelijk verbergen met vinkjes, vergelijkbaar met hoe normale bewerkingen kunnen worden verborgen. [261]
Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)
Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.
User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
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Je kunt je voorkeuren zo instellen dat het ontbreken van een bewerkingssamenvatting tot een melding leidt. Dit kon conflicteren met de captcha die sommige gebruikers onder bepaalde omstandigheden moeten invullen. Dit probleem is nu verholpen. [262]
Via de tijdsaanduiding van een gebeurtenis in Speciaal:Logboeken kon een link worden verkregen naar die specifieke gebeurtenis. Die link liet voorheen in geval van niet-publieke gebeurtenissen geen gebeurtenis zien ongeacht of de gebruiker de benodigde rechten had. Dit probleem is nu verholpen. [263]
Moderators kunnen het misbruikfilter gebruiken om automatisch slechte bewerkingen te voorkomen. Drie wijzigingen zijn vorige week doorgevoerd:
De bewerkingsinterface voor het wijzigen van filters laat nu syntax errors zien tijdens het typen, vergelijkbaar met JavaScript pagina's. Je krijgt ook een waarschuwing te zien voor reguliere expressies die matchen met een lege string. Meer waarschuwingen zullen later toegevoegd worden. [264]
Oversighters kunnen nu meerdere gelogde gebeurtenissen verbergen met vinkjes in Speciaal:AbuseLog, vergelijkbaar met hoe reguliere verwijdering van revisies werkt. [265]
Als een filter teveel acties stopt na een filterwijzinging zal het filter automatisch worden beperkt. De meest ingrijpende acties worden dan uitgeschakeld om te voorkomen dat een grote groep bewerkers per ongeluk kan worden geblokkeerd wanneer een moderator een fout heeft gemaakt. In dit geval krijgt de gebruiker nu een melding.
Bots die de API gebruiken zetten niet langer automatisch pagina's op hun volglijst op basis van hun accountvoorkeuren. Het opgeven van de waarde watch voor watchlist werkt wel zoals normaal. Dit is gedaan om het formaat van volglijstdata in de database te beperken. [267]
Er was een nieuwe versie van MediaWiki vorige week. Je kan een log met alle 763 wijzigingen bekijken. De meeste wijzigingen zijn klein en hebben geen direct merkbare invloed.
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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 12 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 13 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 14 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
Tool of the week
QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 19 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 20 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 21 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
MassMessage posts kunnen automatisch een datum meekrijgen in de toekomst omdat degenen die MassMessages versturen nu ook pagina's kunnen versturen met een MassMessage. Pagina's zijn lastiger te ondertekenen, zodoende. Als er zich een situatie voordoet waarin een MassMessage post geen datum moet meekrijgen kan je dit de ontwikkelaars laten weten.
Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
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De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 26 januari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 27 januari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 28 januari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
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Problemen en onderhoud
IPv6 addressen in diffs gebruikten kleine letters in plaats van hoofdletters waardoor links in Speciaal:Bijdragen niet werkten. Dit is nu verholpen. [274]
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Je kan binnenkort links naar pagina's op de taalneutrale versie van Wikisource toevoegen aan Wikidata items. [275]
Wikimedianen gebruiken nogal eens een "non-breaking space" () om twee dingen van elkaar los te maken zonder dat ze door een nieuwe regel worden opgebroken. Je kan dit karakter nu toevoegen via "Speciale tekens" in de 2010 editor, 2017 editor en de visuele tekstverwerker. In de visuele tekstverwerker zal het karakter worden weergegeven als een spatie met een grijze achtergrond. [276][277]
Wiki's gebruiken misbruikfilters om slechte bewerkingen tegen te gaan. Bij het bewerken van een filter (alleen moderatoren) kan nu voor IP ranges zowel de syntax 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 als 1.2.3.4/27 gebruikt worden. [278]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 2 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 3 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 4 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Minerva is het thema dat Wikimedia wiki's gebruiken voor de mobiele versie van de site. Als een pagina beveiligd is en niet bewerkt kan worden dan kan je normaal wel de wikitext bekijken, maar dit werkt niet naar verwachting met Minerva. Op de Engelse Wikipedia is nu een "brontekst bekijken" link toegevoegd aan de zwarte "toast" melding die je ziet wanneer je probeert om een beveiligde pagina te bewerken. Een ander probleem is dat MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext op een aantal wiki's HTML gebruikt die niet goed kan worden weergegeven op veel mobiele apparaten waardoor overlappende tekst ontstaat. Als jouw wiki in de lijst van dit Wikidata item staat, controleer dan of de wikitext "position:relative" bevat en start een lokale discussie als dit het geval is. Geen van de Nederlandstalige projecten is hierdoor getroffen. Meer informatie is beschikbaar. [279][280]
Cloud VPS en Toolforge krijgen op 8 februari een nieuw IP dat ze zullen gebruiken om verbinding te maken met wiki's. Het nieuwe IP adres is 185.15.56.1. Verder lezen.
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Volglijsten en overlegpagina's zijn nu beschikbaar in de Wikipedia app voor Android. [281]
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Je kan nieuwe bewerkingen bijhouden door pagina's op je volglijst te zetten. Volglijsten zijn individueel voor iedere wiki. Op 11 februari komt de GlobalWatchlist naar Meta-wiki met de mogelijkheid om de bewerkingen van tot 5 verschillende wiki's bij te houden op één pagina. Deze globale volglijst zal beschikbaar zijn via Special:GlobalWatchlist op Meta-wiki. De instellingen voor de globale volglijst kunnen aangepast worden via Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings, eveneens op Meta-wiki. [282]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 9 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 10 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 11 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Vorige week stond in Tech News dat het IP adres van Cloud VPS en Toolforge dat deze diensten gebruiken om verbinding te maken met wiki's zal veranderen op 8 februari. Dit is uitgesteld. [286]
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
Tool of the week
Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Problemen en onderhoud
Omdat recente versies van MediaWiki problemen veroorzaakten hebben de ontwikkelaars MediaWiki teruggedraaid naar een oude versie. Een aantal updates en nieuwe functies arriveren daardoor later dan verwacht. [288][289]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 16 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 17 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 18 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[291]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Het bewerken van een tijdlijn (wikitekst die resulteert in een afbeelding van een tijdlijn) kan resulteren in het verdwijnen van alle tekst op de tijdlijn. Dit probleem is verholpen, maar je moet tijdlijnen waarvan de tekst mist mogelijk nogmaals bewerken om de weergave weer goed te krijgen. [294]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 23 februari uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 24 februari uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 25 februari zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Er is een gebruikersgroep voor ontwikkelaars en gebruikers die interesse hebben in het werken met de Rust programmeertaal op Wikimedia wikis. Je kan je aanmelden of anderen vertellen wie jouw wiki wil verbeteren.
Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
Tool of the week
EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Wiki's die de Growth team tools gebruiken kunnen nu de naam van de mentor van een nieuwkomer laten zien met een variabele. Dit kan gebruikt worden in bijvoorbeeld welkomstberichten of gebruikersboxen.
A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.
Problemen en onderhoud
Er was een probleem met de wachtrij voor opdrachten (job queue) waardoor sommige functies geen aanpassingen opsloegen en MassMessage berichten vertraging opliepen. Dit had geen invloed op bewerkingen op wiki's. [295]
Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari.[296]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 2 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 3 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 4 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[297]
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
"Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Sectievertaling werkt nu op de Bengaalse Wikipedia waardoor het voor mobiele gebruikers makkelijker is om secties te vertalen. Deze feature komt later naar andere wiki's waarbij de focus initieel ligt op actieve wiki's met een beperkt aantal artikelen. Je kan het uittesten en feedback achterlaten.
Wanneer iemand naar een Wikipedia artikel linkt op Twitter is daarbij nu een voorbeeldweergave te zien. [299]
Problemen en onderhoud
Vele grafieken hebben JavaScript-fouten. Bewerkers van grafieken kunnen hun werk controleren in de developer console van hun browser na het bewerken. [300]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 9 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 10 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 11 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
De Nieuwe Discussietool zal binnenkort op de meeste Wikipedia's als bètafunctie opgenomen worden bij de discussietools. Het doel is om het eenvoudiger te maken om nieuwe discussies te starten. [301]
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Er komen een aantal veranderingen om het eenvoudiger te maken om met sjablonen te werken. Een deel hiervan komt in maart op de eerste wiki's. Verdere veranderingen arriveren in juni op de eerste wiki's. Deze veranderingen zijn zowel voor mensen die sjablonen gebruiken als degenen die sjablonen aanmaken en bewerken. Verder lezen.
Reference Previews worden op 17 maart een standaardfeature op sommige wiki's. Ze zullen een instelling delen met Page Previews. Als je de voorkeur geeft aan de Reference Tooltips of Navigation-Popups gadget dan kan je die blijven gebruiken. In dat geval zullen de Reference Previews niet worden weergegeven. [302][303]
Nieuwe JavaScript-gebaseerde functies zullen niet werken in Internet Explorer 11 omdat deze browser te oud is om JavaScript uit te voeren die is geschreven naar de huidige normen. Alles wat vandaag werkt in IE11 zal voorlopig blijven werken. Verder lezen.
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Wiki's die deel uitmaken van het desktopverbeteringen project kunnen nu gebruik maken van een nieuwe zoekfunctie. De desktopverbeteringen en nieuwe zoekfunctie komen later op meer wiki's beschikbaar. Je kan het ook eerder testen.
Gebruikers die banners instellen of site-brede JavaScript code aanpassen zouden client error graph moeten gebruiken om te zien of hun veranderingen geen problemen veroorzaken. Verder lezen. [304]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 16 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 17 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 18 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
Je kan nu nog een nieuwe regel or carriage return karakter aan een persoonlijke handtekening toevoegen door middel van een sjabloon. Er is echter een voorstel om dit in de toekomst niet meer toe te staan vanwege opmaakproblemen. [305][306]
Je kan Quarry gebruiken voor SQL queries op de Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS werken vanaf 23 maart niet meer. Er komt een nieuw veld om aan te geven met welke database er verbonden moet worden. Als je denkt dat dit invloed heeft op jouw bezigheden dan kan je een bericht achterlaten op Phabricator of op Wikitech. PAWS en andere manieren om SQL queries op de Wiki Replicas te doen zullen later aangepast worden. [307]
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Er is een Wikipedia app voor telefoons met KaiOS. Deze toestellen hebben geen aanraakscherm waardoor navigeren alleen mogelijk is met fysieke knoppen. Er is nu een simulator waarin je kan zien hoe het eruit ziet.
12 wiki's zullen tijdelijk alleen-lezen zijn op 23 maart om 06:00 (UTC). Dit zou niet langer dan 30 minuten moeten duren. Het wijzigen van wachtwoorden, aanmelden op nieuwe wiki's, wijzigen of bevestigen van mailadressen en globale hernoemingen zijn ook niet mogelijk in deze periode.
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 23 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 24 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 25 maart zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Flagged revisions zullen niet langer meerdere labels zoals "tone" of "depth" hebben. Er zal ook niet meer dan één rang zijn. Dit is aangepast omdat slechts enkele wiki's deze features gebruikten en dit maakte de tool ingewikkeld om te onderhouden. [309][310]
Gadgets en user scripts in JavaScript hebben toegang tot variabelen met informatie over de huidige pagina. In 2015 is dit verplaatst van wg* naar mw.config. wg* werkt binnenkort niet meer. [311]
March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021(Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[312]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.
Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Sommige antieke browserswerken niet goed met Wikimedia wiki's. Oude code voor browsers die voorheen ondersteund waren is verwijderd waardoor de betreffende browsers mogelijk niet goed meer werken. [313]
Meldingen van recente wijzigingen op IRC zijn verplaatst naar een nieuwe server. Tools moeten altijd verbinden met irc.wikimedia.org en niet de naam van een specifieke server. Gebruikers kunnen ook overwegen om over te stappen op de modernere EventStreams. [314]
Problemen en onderhoud
Bij het verplaatsen van een pagina die veel gebruikers op hun volglijst hebben staan kan de geschiedenis onverwacht gesplitst worden. Daarna is de pagina mogelijk ook voor enige tijd niet meer te verplaatsen. Dit komt door een probleem met job queue. (opdrachtenwachtrij) [315]
Sommige vertaalbare pagina's op Meta konden niet bewerkt worden door een fout in de vertaaltool. De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki heeft door problemen als deze vertraging opgelopen. [316][317]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 30 maart uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 31 maart uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 1 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Gebruikers kunnen delen van een artikel inklappen zodat je erop moet klikken om het te zien. Als je nu klikt op een link naar een sectie die standaard is ingeklapt dan zal die sectie nu automatisch uitgeklapt worden en de browser scrollt dan naar de betreffende sectie. Dergelijke links werkten voorheen niet tenzij je eerst handmatig de sectie uitklapte. [318]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De citoidAPI gaat 2010-12-XX gebruiken in plaats van 2010-12 voor datums met een maand maar zonder gespecificeerde dag omdat 2010-12 ook is te interpreteren als 2010-2012. In het Extended Date/Time Format heet dit level 1 in plaats van level 0. [319]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 6 april uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 7 april uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 8 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
PAWS kan nu verbinding maken met de nieuwe Wikireplica's. Cross-database JOINS zullen vanaf 28 april niet meer werken. Er is een nieuwe manier om verbinding te maken met de databases. Tot 28 april werken beide verbindingsmethoden. Als je denkt dat dit invloed heeft op wat je doet en je hebt hulp nodig dan kan je een reactie achterlaten op Phabricator of op Wikitech.
April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
April 8: Documentation Q&A
April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[320]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).
Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.
Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Vrijwilligers beantwoorden de mail die is gericht aan de Wikimedia wiki's. Deze vrijwilligers gebruiken nu Znuny in plaats van OTRS voor deze taak. De functies en interface blijven hetzelfde. De moderators van deze vrijwilligers geven binnenkort meer informatie over de volgende stappen. [321][322]
Als je syntaxhighlighting gebruikt zie je regelnummers in de 2010 en 2017 wikitext editors tijdens het bewerken van sjablonen. Dit maakt het eenvoudiger om nieuwe regels te herkennen en om specifieke regels te bespreken. Regelnummers zullen binnenkort in alle naamruimten beschikbaar zijn. [323][324][325]
Door een technische wijziging kunnen er problemen optreden met gadgets en scripts waarvan het invoerveld voor de bewerkingssamenvatting hierop lijkt. Als het er vreemd uitziet moet mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') gebruikt worden om het er weer uit te laten zien zoals het was. [326]
De nieuwste versie van MediaWiki kwam vorige week naar Wikimedia wiki's. Er was vorige week geen Technieuws.
Wijzigingen later deze week
Er is geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie deze week.
Toekomstige wijzigingen
De gebruikersgroep oversight zal hernoemd worden naar suppress vanwege technische redenen. Dit betreft alleen de interne technische naam en heeft geen invloed op de communicatie met en over gebruikers met dit recht. Dit gaat de komende twee weken gebeuren. Je kan reageren op Phabricator als je bezwaren hebt.
Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Template|Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Je kan nu suggesties opgeven voor de waardes van parameters van een sjabloon met TemplateData. Deze suggesties zijn zichtbaar in de vorm van een lijst in de visuele tekstverwerker. Zo kunnen gebruikers makkelijker de juiste waardes vinden. [327][328][329]
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 27 april uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 28 april uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 29 april zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Recente wijzigingen
Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.[331]
Wijzigingen later deze week
Voorbeeldweergave van referenties zal op 5 mei een standaardfeature worden op een aantal wiki's. Dit is later dan gepland door een aantal wijzigingen. Deze feature werkt ook zonder Page Previews. Het oorspronkelijke plan was om alleen een instelling te hebben die deze twee features tegelijk zou in- of uitschakelen. [332][333]
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 4 mei uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 5 mei uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedia's en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 6 mei zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Toekomstige wijzigingen
The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.[334]
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).
Future changes
You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoidAPI would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [340]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [341]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).
Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
Upcoming
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
May 21-22, 2021 [342] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)
#1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
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
The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [343], June 1st.
Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [344]
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).
Future changes
The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [345][346][347]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [348]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [349][350]
SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...
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
Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [351]
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [353]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [354][355]
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).
Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
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
The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [356]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [357]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [358], June 29th.
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!
Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
"en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [360]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [361][362]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [363][364]
User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
Recent changes
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [365]
Problems
InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [366]
Changes later this week
The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [367][368]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [369]
LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [370], July 13th.
A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
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
The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [371][372]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [373]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).
Future changes
How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [374], July 27th.
COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
Still mapping!"Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
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
A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).
Future changes
If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preferenceResponsieve modus inschakelen. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
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
If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [375][376]
Changes later this week
When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [377]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).
Future changes
The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Overleghulpmiddelen will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [378], Aug 10th.
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [379]
Changes later this week
The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.
Future changes
The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [380]
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
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 add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [382]
Problems
There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [383][384][385]
Changes later this week
A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [386]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [387]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
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
The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).
This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Bedankt!
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [388]
Changes later this week
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [389]
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [390], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
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
The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [391]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
In 2017, the provided jQuery library was upgraded from version 1 to 3, with a compatibility layer. The migration will soon finish, to make the site load faster for everyone. If you maintain a gadget or user script, check if you have any JQMIGRATE errors and fix them, or they will break. [392][393]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [396]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [397]
The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [398][399]
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [400], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [401]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.
Problems
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [402]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [403]
Future changes
The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Overleghulpmiddelen" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [404]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
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
iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.
Problems
Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [405]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [406]
A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.
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
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [408]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.
Future changes
You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [409]
The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [410]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [411]
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.
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
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will be on all wikis from 14 October (calendar).
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
Videos
Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [412], Oct 19th.
Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.
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
Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
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
The Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).
Future changes
Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [413]
The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [414]
Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.
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
There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [415]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).
Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
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
Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [416][417]
In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.
Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.
Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)
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
Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.
Problems
Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [419]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [420]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).
This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.
Wijzigingen later deze week
De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal op 30 november uitgerold worden op testwiki's en op MediaWiki.org. De nieuwe versie zal op 1 december uitgerold worden op sommige Wikipedias en alle projecten die geen Wikipedia zijn. Op 2 december zal de nieuwe versie op alle overige projecten uitgerold worden. (kalender)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [421]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [422]
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
There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [423]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [424]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).