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This Month in Education: February 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue
From the Community

WikiProject Engineering Workshop at IIUC,Chittagong

What did we learn from Wikibridges MOOC?

Wikimedia Serbia launched Wiki scholar project

Wiki Club in Ohrid, Macedonia

Karvachar’s WikiClub: When getting knowledge is cool

More than 30 new courses launched in the University of the Basque Country

Review meeting on Christ Wikipedia Education Program

The Multidisciplinary Choices of High School Students: The Arabic Education Program; Wikimedia Israel

From the Education Team

The Education Extension is being deprecated (second call)

The 2017 survey report live presentation is available for viewing

Wikidata weekly summary #293

Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!
  • Development
    • Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
    • Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
    • Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
    • Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
    • Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
    • Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
    • Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

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63 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Angel Station (talk) Add sources
56 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Messin' (talk) Add sources
50 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Manfred Mann Chapter Three (talk) Add sources
514 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Manfred Mann's Earth Band (talk) Add sources
393 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Whip (talk) Add sources
280 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Intertitle (talk) Add sources
737 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Erotic literature (talk) Cleanup
1,304 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Kabul (talk) Cleanup
534 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Basic life support (talk) Cleanup
119 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Massachusetts Route 128 (talk) Expand
260 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Arbovirus (talk) Expand
1,091 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Breakfast (talk) Expand
305 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Concert for George (talk) Unencyclopaedic
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Construction puzzle (talk) Unencyclopaedic
38 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Sidewalk cafe (talk) Unencyclopaedic
383 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Pubic hair fetishism (talk) Merge
27 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Physiological response to water immersion (talk) Merge
48 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Speech code (talk) Merge
1,290 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Khalistan movement (talk) Wikify
202 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Sexual racism (talk) Wikify
67 Quality: High, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: FA Symbolic racism (talk) Wikify
9 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C SaltCON (talk) Orphan
34 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Ponytail Canasta (talk) Orphan
5 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C International Surf Lifesaving Association (talk) Orphan
74 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Benue River (talk) Stub
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Mann Alive (talk) Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Babesia divergens (talk) Stub
318 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Ambrosia (fruit salad) (talk) Stub
89 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start The Roaring Silence (talk) Stub
11 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Pat King (talk) Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #302

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
    • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
    • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
    • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
    • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

  • You can now make longer edit summaries. [1]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [2]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [3][4]
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [5]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
    • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

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.


Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [6]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [7]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [8]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [9]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [10]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [11]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [12][13]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [14][15][16]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [18][19]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #304

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Development
    • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
    • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
    • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
    • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
    • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
    • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

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.


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26 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Kalamazoo Gazette (talk) Add sources
2,509 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Emily Browning (talk) Add sources
434 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Rocky Mountain spotted fever (talk) Add sources
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250 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Danish colonial empire (talk) Cleanup
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35 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C The Way (Greg Bear) (talk) Expand
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Assamstadt (talk) Expand
17 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Swedish West India Company (talk) Expand
695 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Chariot (talk) Unencyclopaedic
607 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Reversi (talk) Unencyclopaedic
100 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C The Mongoliad (talk) Unencyclopaedic
340 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: GA Diving reflex (talk) Merge
212 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom) (talk) Merge
341 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Collective noun (talk) Merge
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Serpent Mage (Greg Bear) (talk) Wikify
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Austrian heraldry (talk) Wikify
152 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Edarem (talk) Wikify
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Konditor & Cook (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Joseph W. Mansur (talk) Orphan
23 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Bridge navigational watch alarm system (talk) Orphan
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Blinded by the Light: The Very Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (talk) Stub
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band Re-Mastered (talk) Stub
22 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub Theileria parva (talk) Stub
41 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Plains Music (talk) Stub
13 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band Re-Mastered Volume II (talk) Stub
18 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Steve Kinch (talk) Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #305

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
    • Closed request for comments: Former ATE
  • Development
    • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
    • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
    • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
    • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
    • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
    • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
    • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
    • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
    • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
    • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

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: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [20] [21]
  • Advanced item The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [22]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [23]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [24]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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