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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)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


West Bengal

Unfortunately the article West Bengal has got delisted .I am currently working on it so that I can get it through Ga and then back to Fa at a later date.Could you check if the picture issue is resolved and give some pointers for more improvement — Force Radical ( Talk • Contribs ) 07:23, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Bare urls

Hi Checkingfax, could you pleaes help with the bare urls in this article Kawana ware?

Thank you. Gryffindor (talk) 01:06, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)-Please use the tool listed at WP:Refill — Force Radical ( Talk • Contribs ) 09:00, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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 Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
  • Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

  • Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
  • Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

  • Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
  • The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
  • WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

  • 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 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #294

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

Hi

If you find time for it could you take a look at my recent noms at TAFI Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Nominations. Would appreciate no matter what !vote as no one is attending the TAFI nom page anymore to give input. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 19:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!!!!

From the Wikimedia Event!!! Chefmikesf (talk) 03:10, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Chef. I could use some chefing. It was a pleasure meeting you tonight. Hopefully we can collaborate on making some good articles for the encyclopedia. Having fun! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:20, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Checkingfax, Great to meet you as well! It would bring me much joy to assist you with projects and articles you are currently working on. Any in particular that need a look at?Chefmikesf (talk) 17:48, 1 December 2017 (UTC
Hi, Checkingfax, Hope you had a great Holiday Season and are ready for the New Year! LOOking forward to seeing you at the next Wikimeetup!Chefmikesf (talk) 17:23, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
  • There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • 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 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. 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. [19][20]

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18:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
    • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:27, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Ceramic art

Hello, Checkingfax – I was just looking at the latest edit to Ceramic art. I was going to undo this latest edit because I think the addition was unnecessary. It's three adjectives (decorative, industrial, or applied) for one noun phrase (art objects). However, when I looked at the previous edit, I wondered with that addition was some kind of promotion. I thought I'd better ask you about that. If that should not be there, then I can undo both edits at once.  – Corinne (talk) 15:46, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-01

Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
  • Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
  • Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

  • When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [25]
  • On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [26]
  • Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [27]
  • Filter menu was opening upwards. [28]
  • ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [29]
  • Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [30]

Work in progress

  • Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [31]
    • The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
    • It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
    • You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [32]
  • Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [33]
    • Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
    • Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
    • Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
    • Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
  • Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [34]
  • The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [35]

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Future changes

  • Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [38]
  • Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [39]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

  • User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [40]
  • "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [41]

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00:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Feburary 2018 at Women in Red

Welcome to Women in Red's February 2018 worldwide online editathons.

New: "Black women"

New: "Mathematicians and statisticians"

New: "Geofocus: Island women"

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

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