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Wikidata weekly summary #339

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
    • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
    • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
    • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
    • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
    • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
    • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
    • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
    • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
    • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
    • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
    • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [2]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [3]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [4]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Reverts

Hi. I noticed you have reverted some edits of Happyturkeyday (talk), marking your reverts as minor edits, as if you were reverting vandalism. I think this is inappropriate because it doesn't look like the reverted edits are vandalism but rather disputed edits. I think you should post proper edit summaries and discuss the reverts in the talk page. Thinker78 (talk) 06:10, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Thinker78 I have rollback rights. As you may be aware, this enables me to revert vandalism and test edits with just one click. The rollback routine automatically puts in that it is a "minor" edit (for reasons that are unclear to me and which it seems that I cannot change). If you look at Happyturkeyday's talk page you will see that he has been warned by another user, Kpgjhpjm, not to make the changes he has made to a number of Romanov royalty related articles. You will also see by looking at my overall contributions to Wikipedia over a number of years that I try and provide clear explanations for my non-rollback edits and changes. Regards --Chewings72 (talk) 06:42, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
But what is your rationale of thinking the aforementioned edits of Happyturkeyday are vandalism/tests? Because they were done in more than one page? Their changes have some historical basis if I'm not mistaken and they provided a reasonable explanation in at least one edit summary in the article Nicholas II of Russia, which seems to prove that they are not vandalizing/testing and were made in good faith. The other editor did warn them but in my opinion unduly, not only because, I believe, the edits are not unconstructive/vandalism/tests, but also because the editor is new. Thinker78 (talk) 07:07, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Thinker78 surtsicna Based on your logic,Happyturkeyday should then put in the full title: "By the Grace of God, We Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod etc. etc." If you look at each of the Wikipedia articles relating to the Romanov dynasty since Peter the Great, there seems to have been a consensus for some time to keep the title simple. For whatever reason,Happyturkeyday wished to put in the longer title (or, more correctly, a subset of the longer title) without any consultation with the Wikipedia community. The user managed to change numerous articles covering members of the Romanov family in the same or similar manner. I have copied in user: surtsicna given that user's lengthy ongoing interest in European history including Russian history. I note that Happyturkeyday reverted my reverts. So, given your concerns, I will gracefully and politely retreat from making any reversions to changes by Happyturkeyday. Chewings72 (talk) 09:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
WP:BOLD. And, again, they are a new editor. Thinker78 (talk) 23:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #340

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
    • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
    • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
    • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
    • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
    • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
    • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
    • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
    • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
    • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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