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Wikidata weekly summary #52

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

• Development
  • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
  • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
  • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
  • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
  • Implemented string formatter
• Discussions/Press
  • RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
  • RFC about statements for items related to software
• Events
  • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
  • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
  • There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
  • We hit Q10000000
  • A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)
• Did you know?
  • There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
  • You can get database dumps to play with
  • There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hit a random item and add a missing source?
  • Hack on one of these

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue III, March 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: The Sydney Wikipedian-in-Residence story (Part I): where, why, what Finland report: Preparing and Planning France report: Case study in museum newsletter; Akan; Sèvres; Quai Branly Germany report: Caesar and the provinces Israel report: Wrapping up a 6-months pilot project at the Haifa University Academic Library Italy report: Libraries! Mexico report: GLAM Activities in Mexico Netherlands report: Wiki loves Monuments and Sound; Hackathon 2013; Hebrew and Jiddish words Spain report: GLAM Activities in Spain Sweden report: Fashion edit-a-thon; cooperating with the Working life museums Switzerland report: Small museums Taiwan report: GLAM Activities in Taiwan UK report: Workshops: scientists and photographs USA report: Chemical Heritage Foundation resident sought; editathons in D.C. and New York Open Access report: Topic Pages; Open Access on Wikispecies Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 08 April 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

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

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
  • We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
  • We now have Bureaucrats
  • Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Help draft the next weekly summary

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

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ml.wiki

Netha Would it be a good idea to join this one? I mean the malayalam translation work....? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Htharayil (talk • contribs) 12:30, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

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Wikidata weekly summary #54

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

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

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Thanks

Hey thanks for the women's day award Urbashi (talk) 14:42, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome! Netha (talk) 14:49, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Pending release of Notifications

Hey Netha Hussain :). I'm dropping you a note because you have signed up for the Notifications, or Echo, newsletter.

If all goes according to plan, we should be launching Echo on en-wiki either tomorrow, or next Tuesday - I'll drop a followup tomorrow when we know what's happening. Should the launch succeed, we'll begin the process of triaging bugs and gathering feedback on what features work, what cause problems, and what we should do next; I hope you'll help us out on these fronts by leaving any comments you might have on the talkpage.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:04, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news

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Wikidata weekly summary #55

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

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

• News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp

• In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax

• Featured content: Wiki loves video games

• WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball

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For being the powerful Wiki-Women

	Best Indian Wiki-Woman
	You are not just special but a powerful Wiki-Women we have. Thank you for all your effort in coordinating International Women's day edit-a-thons and related events. Keep spreading your wiki-energy!! Vishnu 08:44, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the trophy and the WikiLove message. WikiLoves back to you, too! -- Netha (talk) 01:17, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Notifications box replacement prototypes released

Hey Netha Hussain; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:02, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #57

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

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014

• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!

• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list

• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts

• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map

• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?

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Wikidata weekly summary #58

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

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment

• WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome

• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles

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Wikidata weekly summary #59

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

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), _target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For getting selected for the Wikimania, for making Wiki a better place for all of us, for being there always. :D Anandtr2006 (talk) 11:44, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions

• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates

• Featured content: Life of 2π

• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

• From the editor: Signpost developments

• Featured content: A week of portraits

• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report

• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?

• In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy

• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

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

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • SemTechBiz
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
  • Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
• Development
  • Worked on globe coordinate editing
  • Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
  • EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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This Month in GLAM: May 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue V, May 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Australian participation - east and west; urban and outback; at home and away Belgium report: Belgian cultural institutions interested in Open Data Czech Republic report: QRpedia codes in Silesian Museum Opava Finland report: Maps; WLPA; Workshop material France report: Edit-a-thon in Quai Branly Germany report: Being online on air - TV cooperation Mexico report: Edit-a-thons in Puebla and Mexico City; Möebius radio program Netherlands report: Europeana Fashion edit-a-thon; First Dutch Wikipedian in Residence; Wikimedia Hackathon; Wiki loves libraries Spain report: Wiki Loves Catalan Public libraries Sweden report: A month full of art Switzerland report: QRpedia Pilot at the Natural History Museum in Bern UK report: Monmouth; Museums; More USA report: Wikipedian in Residence in the Smithsonian; News in brief Special story: GLAM and Early Telescopes Open Access report: Bugfixes; over 10,000 files from PLOS; conferences Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal

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• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons

• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more

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Wikidata weekly summary #62

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

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
  • And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
  • Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
  • EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
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Edit-a-thon Invitation

Please join the Chemical Heritage Foundation Edit-a-Thon, June 20, 2013. Build content relating to women in science, chemistry and the history of science. Use the hashtag #GlamCHF and write your favorite scientist or chemist into Wikipedian history!

We'd love to have you participate Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:00, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite, Mary! I have posted my reply on the event page. -- Netha (talk) 18:41, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

If your time zone doesn't match up well with the times we're working, feel free to work before or after that time and use the hashtag #GlamCHF so we can see what you're working on! I understand though that it's more fun to work at the same time so you can see the tweets going out. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:23, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

I missed the day :( Some articles on the project page requires creation, I think I can still work on them and create as much as stub-class articles. -- Netha (talk) 18:29, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:25, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I am not sure if I would become an active editor in medicine anytime soon, so I think it is best not to apply for the access right now. Cheers! -- Netha (talk) 17:56, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'

• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week

• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics

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• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?

• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen

• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden

• Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets

• News and notes: Election results released

• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator

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Wikidata weekly summary #64

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

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

• Featured content: Queen of France

• WikiProject report: Puppies!

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace

• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more

• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views

• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments

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Come celebrate IdeaLab’s (re)Launch!

Idea Lab

Idea Lab

We’ve redesigned the Grants:IdeaLab to make awesome collaborators and shiny new ideas easier to find.
You’re invited to the (re)Launch party!

Come visit and create a profile, share or join an idea, and tell us what you think about the updates!

Hope to see you there! Siko (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project

• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

• Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south

• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?

• Featured content: The week of the birds

• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more

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Wikidata weekly summary #66

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced

• Featured content: Documents and sports

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications

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Wikidata weekly summary #67

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
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medicines and side effects

My doc advises to take an albendazole 400 mg tablet every month or two , so as to clear my system of worms , how much shld I be taking without effecting my nervous system ther are always side effects im 18 ? Is ther any way to take medicines safely ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.136.233.142 (talk) 19:06, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion

• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India

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• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change

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• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia

• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013

• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes

• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!

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Wikidata weekly summary #69

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
  • Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
  • The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
  • Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
  • Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
  • ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
  • Fix handling of '0' value in API response
  • Solved bugs related to copyright notice
  • Some minor UI speed improvements
  • EditEntity refactored
  • Test cases improved
  • Further work on URLs
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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A cupcake for you

yes it is cupcake and you can eat it with imagine Hima fethus (talk) 15:15, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue VII, July 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: No letup from Libraries Italy report: Libraries! Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments meeting in Mexico City; Volunteers of Puebla and Fotofestin gets in the contest Spain report: IPC Athletic World Championships UK report: Art Nouveau & Rosalind Franklin USA report: 20,000 high quality photographs for Art History enthusiasts Special story: An archive with many stories to tell Open Access report: Media Importer; File of the Day Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments is coming Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #70

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
  • Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
  • Many property proposals still need input!
• Events/Press
  • Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
  • Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
  • There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
  • Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
• Development
  • Changeops implemented for all Api modules
  • All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
  • Work on claim ordering started
  • Work on refactoring Api Tests
  • Bug Fixes!!
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Keyboards for Indian languages

Hi Netha, I just watched your presentation via video. You mentioned the difficulty to edit in Indian languages. As I am doing wikistats, I have always been interested to learn why most editing in India occurs on English pages. I heard several times that part of it is that most people who can afford computers are educated in English, and motivated to enhance their English language skills. You point out that writing in other languages on an English keyboard is difficult. I can imagine! I was wondering will this issue become less important when tablets become more affordable and ubiquitous, which I'm sure will happen in the coming years. India even launched a quite cheap tablet recently I believe. With on screen keyboards people can switch from one language to another easily. Have you experienced editing in a local language on a tablet? Does that already work? I believe most Indian languages are alphabet based, so the sheer size of the character set shouldn't be a problem, like it would be in Chinese or Japanese. Any thoughts on this? Cheers, Erik Zachte (talk) 15:31, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

A bilingual keyboard

Hi Erik, Thank you for the message and for watching the video! Yes, it is hard to type Indian languages using English keyboards. The Indic language I speak has 56 letters in its alphabet. Some laptop manufacturers have built bilingual keyboards, but they are not very popular and are available only in widely spoken languages such as Hindi. The higher socio-economic class in India are educated in English since pre-school levels, and can handle English in a professional level. They are therefore more likely to look up the English Wikipedia for information than an Indic language Wikipedia. Assuming that the reader is more likely to contribute to the language Wikipedia she is reading the most, I think Indians are more likely to contribute to English Wikipedia than the regional language Wikipedias.

Mobile phones are ubiquitous in India now, but tablets are yet to be popular. The government of India has launched the 'Akash' tablet for students but they are sold on a limited scale. I don't own a tablet, and I do not know how typing on it will be like - but I am guessing that it would be definitely simpler to type an Indic language on a tablet than typing on a conventional keyboard. I hadn't given much of a thought into this before you raised this question, so I think I should definitely borrow a tablet and find out how different the typing experience is!
On most mobile phones (especially those running on Windows and Symbian), it is not possible by default to view Indic script. The phone shows squares instead of the Indic language character. I worked around the problem by installing Opera Mini browser, and displaying the characters as bitmap images. Similar issue could exist on tablets too, though I am not sure. -- Netha (talk) 11:32, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Netha, that is very insightful. I was not expecting Windows Mobile to be that lacking. Microsoft did well in the font department (on desktops) with MS Unicode, which supports really many scripts (but of course has other disadvantages, being not open). Android is already the standard for low costs tablets. I'll ask Siebrand Mazeland, WMF Product Manager Language Engineering, if he has any experience with this. Cheers, Erik Zachte (talk) 15:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

• Android 4.2 and later versions support most Indian languages. (Samsung models have included the support from Android 2.3.7(?). So Smartphones and Tablets will be better for Indian language users from the point of browsing, but People may have to use conventional keyboards for improved speed of typing. --Arjunaraoc (talk) 04:56, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

In the few Windows (Nokia ASHA) phones I worked with, Malayalam (ml) script was not enabled by default. I am not sure if it holds true everywhere. Windows 7 and above supports Indic script. Not sure about Windows XP and earlier versions. I work on a Windows 7 OS laptop, which supports at least 8 Indic scripts. Netha (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

We've developed mw:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector to make things easier. Currently we support web fonts and input methods for most larger languages from India. Within the current WMF fiscal year, we also expect to add en:Virtual keyboard support in the extension. No detailed planning for delivery or features is not available yet. Bug reports and ideas in bugzilla: are highly appreciated. Siebrand (talk) 12:52, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches

• In the media: Chinese censorship

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Wikidata weekly summary #71

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
  • Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
  • Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
  • The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
  • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
  • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
  • Newest task forces: Physics task force
  • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
• Development
  • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
  • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
  • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
  • Started improving API and Special Page tests
  • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
  • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
  • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
  • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
  • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
• Open Tasks for You
  • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
  • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #72

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Query regarding Online Ambassador Programme

Hi Netha,

I'm new to this ecosystem of Wikipedia, how do I start or enroll for the Online ambassador programme?

Kindly help.

Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rastogi.akshat248 (talk • contribs) 10:57, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #73

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
  • Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
  • Recent office hour logs now availible.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
  • Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
• Development
  • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
  • Work on entity / item redirects
  • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
  • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
  • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
  • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
  • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
  • Further work on merge module for the API
  • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
  • Work on value formatters
  • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
  • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #74

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

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds

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• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt

• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia

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• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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This Month in GLAM: August 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue VIII, August 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Adding New South Wales stories to Wikipedia Finland report: Wikimaps Tartu–Hong Kong France report: Pompidou Germany report: Let the GLAM shine! Planning the year 2014 India report: Wikipedian in Residence pilot project at the Bombay Natural History Society Netherlands report: Wiki loves Monuments; Greek & Latin translations; Wikipedians in Residence Switzerland report: Interview of the Wikipedian in Residence at the Swiss National Archives USA report: William Blake in Kansas? Beginnings. Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania 2013 & 2014 and on the Main Pages; New mailing list Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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• Featured content: Tintin goes featured

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas

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Wikidata weekly summary #75

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
  • Bugfixes on autosummaries
  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #77

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Assignment for medi-graphics

Hi Netha; do you remmember me from Wikimedia? Following what we spoke in IdeaLab session I've created mecanisms (button, pre-load page, templates) to create assignments for wikiArS. You can see it here: outreach:WikiArS/assignments. May you test it creating some assignment examples for Medi-graphics? Greetings. --Dvdgmz (talk) 08:53, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership

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This Month in GLAM: September 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IX, September 2013 Headlines Belgium report: Europeana Fashion Fashion edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments France report: Aerial pictures of Versailles; In Brief Germany report: Reaching out for new partners India report: Wiki Loves Monuments in India Italy report: Italian Wikipedia takes libraries Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013; edit-a-thon in La Merced historical neighborhood Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments; ECNC photo competition; Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon Antwerp; Fourth Dutch Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves libraries workshop; 10 years of CC licenses Spain report: Amical projects: Catalan Culture; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: Sign language and case studies Switzerland report: New cooperation with Botanical Garden; History of Alps update; OpenGLAM workshop at OKCon UK report: The Morning After the Month Before USA report: Wikipedia at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York Wiki Loves Monuments report: The world's largest photography contest has struck again, but missed many countries Open Access report: Thanks, OKCon, featured content, stats and a final Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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• Featured content: Under the sea

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed

• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #80

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
  • Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
  • Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
  • Newest task forces: International relations task force
• Development
  • Further development on WikibaseDatabase
  • IE8 is working again
  • JSON socumentation created and merged
  • Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
  • Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri

• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology

• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures

• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more

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GLAM Cafe invitation

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

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Query on Template

Hi Netha.. How r u?

I'm Aby John Mathew from Kerala. I was your junior at school. Hope you remember me.

I've a question. Can I use this particular template for my user page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_info

I am really sorry to bother you but it would be great if you can help me.

Thanks

(Abyjohn1991 (talk) 02:31, 2 November 2013 (UTC))

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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• News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?

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• Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

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Wikidata weekly summary #83

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
  • Lua enhancements discussion
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
  • On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
  • Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
  • Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
  • Newest task forces: Athletics task force
  • You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
• Development
  • Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
  • Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
  • More work on badges by mlazowik
  • Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
  • Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
  • Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
  • Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
  • Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
  • Fix validation of wbsetreference
  • Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
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The Signpost: 06 November 2013

• News and notes: Alleged "outing" of editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre

• Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

• Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block

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Wikidata weekly summary #84

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

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
  • Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
  • Started making improvements to the loading time of items
  • Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
  • More work on ranks for statements
  • Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
  • Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
  • Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
  • Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
  • Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
  • Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
  • Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
  • Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
  • Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
  • Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
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Wikidata weekly summary #85

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

• Discussions
  • Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
  • Closed: Commons links
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • An interview with Denny Vrandečić
  • WikiCon 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reasonator now supports cities and locations
  • The quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
• Development
  • Refactored Api output
  • Collect tasks for Google Code In
  • Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
  • Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
  • Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
  • Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
  • Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
  • Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
  • Improved Wikibase Lua code
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

• Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive

• Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

• WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia

• News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting

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• Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

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Wikidata weekly summary #86

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

• Discussions
  • Showcase items - take 2
  • Verified statements
  • Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Closed: Image properties
  • Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
  • Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
  • Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata Concept Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
  • Newest task forces: Sports results task force
• Development
  • Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
  • Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
  • Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
  • Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
  • Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
  • Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
  • Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
  • Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
  • Released the Datavalues library
  • Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
  • Defined permissions for Simple Queries
  • First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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• News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions

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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)

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The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs) 16:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #87

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

• Discussions
  • Change the resysopping process
  • Inactive administrators
  • Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
  • A few new features which require your testing!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
  • Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
• Development
  • Finalized localization of quantity values
  • Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
  • More work on improving diffs
  • Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
  • Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
  • Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
  • Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
  • Database performance improvements
  • Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
  • Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
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  • Help develop the next summary here!

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Paraphrasing

This is required. One cannot cut and paste content word for word from the sources. Please fix [1] Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)