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Wikidata weekly summary #226

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
    • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
    • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
    • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
    • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
    • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
    • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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Ascresearch

Hi James! Just curious how I can make my sources better. I felt they met the standards of Wikipedia, but as you have more experience I'd love your feedback on why they don't, and how I can make them better.

Thanks. Annie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ascresearch (talk • contribs) 23:27, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Please review Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. Regards, James (talk/contribs) 00:13, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
Quality process on Wikidata

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NCTA

Arguably, NCTA is the more recognizable part of the name, but that can't be the page's title because it's disambiguated.

But still, that is the organization's official name now. It's arbitrarily making the article outdated by mandating that we use a name that is no longer in use. ViperSnake151  Talk  22:27, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to file a move request in order to gauge community consensus. Regards, James (talk/contribs) 23:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

Official logo of Wiki Loves Monuments

Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

Wikimedia community logo (public domain)

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

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DYK for Ben Barton

On 26 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ben Barton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ben Barton (pictured) was able to cheaply purchase a large amount of land in what would become Redlands, California, due to Brigham Young's recall of the Mormon outpost there? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ben Barton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ben Barton), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

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

Legoland resorts

Hi James, I've reverted all of your pages moves as these all should be discussed first, It's always better to play by the book as that way if a newbie or vandal reverts atleast you'll actually have consensus for the moves, Thanks & Happy editing, –Davey2010Talk 01:52, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

You are wrong. Here are some "by the book" guidelines: The requested move process is not mandatory. Anyone can be bold and move a page without discussing it first. If that is truly your only objection, you will, of course, self-revert your moves. Regards, James (talk/contribs) 07:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Nope I'm afraid I'm correct, I'm well aware it's not mandatory however they should be done and IMHO your moves should be discussed anyway, I'm not self reverting anything - Either you discuss your moves or you simply move on. –Davey2010Talk 13:49, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
    • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
    • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
    • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
    • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
    • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Removal of Current Status from California High Speed Rail

I fail to see any significant benefit to your removal of the data on the current status of the project. It seems to me that IF you had any significant concerns about the format of an entry which succinctly provides current status information, you should have simply corrected the format rather than deleted the information. By deleting it, you are in effect saying that it has no value. Since this topic is an ongoing project of significant complexity and interest, it seems to me that having such a summary near the top is beneficial for those who actually want that information in one place. The existing information on the project is complex and divided into 3 main articles.

Consequently, I will re-add the information into a subtopic of its own. Robert92107 (talk) 13:51, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Linking to a document by the builders is neither encyclopedic nor NPOV. Please initiate further discussion on the article's talk page rather than edit warring. James (talk/contribs) 01:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

I have done as you suggested and put this discussion on the Talk page. However, I feel that you are fundamentally wrong in rejecting an official report to the Federal Government. This NOT a PR piece, and it provides factual and important information in the entry. If you feel this can be improved or restructured to better fit the entry, please do so, but ignoring it altogether (especially in light of the needs of the entry) I think is wrong. Robert92107 (talk) 21:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
    • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
    • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

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Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

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Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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Recent changes

  • You can now set text as small or big.[1]
  • Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
  • Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
  • At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.[5]
  • The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
  • Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

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Wikidata weekly summary #231

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

You are invited to a Wednesday evening event in SF

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Hi folks,

Please copy and share this on other talk pages. We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather at the Wikimedia Foundation lounge to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no meaty agenda this month, but we will allow a brief period for:

  • Open mic for anybody who attended WikiConference North America 2016 in San Diego last week and wants to share their takeaway
  • Question & answer
  • Open mic for announcements
  • Maybe a focus on some topical election article editing with Ben?

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, a stool or counter and do your own thing.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, October 2016.

PS: Mark your calendars ahead now for the 3rd Wednesday in November, the 30th (the week after Thanksgiving), at 6 p.m. when our WikiSalon will host a super awesome top secret mystery guest mingling in our midst. We will announce specifics at the upcoming WikiSalon.

See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen, Jacob, and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

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