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User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
Tool of the week
QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 Januar verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 20 Januar. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 Januar (Kalender).
Massennachricht-Beiträge könnten in Zukunft automatisch mit einem Zeitstempel versehen werden. Dies liegt daran, dass Massennachricht-Absender jetzt Seiten mit MassMessage senden können. Seiten sind schwieriger zu signieren. Wenn es Zeiten gibt, in denen ein Massennachrichtspost nicht mit einem Zeitstempel versehen werden soll, kannst du dies den Entwicklern mitteilen.
Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [12]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
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
IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [13]
Changes later this week
You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [14]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [15][16]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [17]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [18][19]
Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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
The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [20]
Changes later this week
You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [21]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [22][23]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [24]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [25]
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
Tool of the week
Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
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
There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [27][28]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [29]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[30]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
Nachfolgend die Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte gib diese technischen Änderungen an andere weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieser Nachricht.
Letzte Änderungen
Der Visual Editor verwendet jetzt MediaSearch zur Bildersuche. Damit kann man Bilder auf Commons im Visual Editor suchen, wenn man nach Illustrationen sucht. Das soll es den Autoren leichter machen, bessere Bilder zu finden. [31]
Wenn man eine Timeline bearbeitet hat, kann es sein, dass dabei der gesamte Text verschwand. Das lag an einem Bug, der nun behoben wurde. Es kann sein, dass du die Timeline noch einmal bearbeiten musst, damit sie wieder richtig angezeigt wird. [33]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
2021-02-24
Zukünftige Änderungen
Es gibt eine User Group für Entwickler und für Benutzer, die an der Mitarbeit an Wikimedia-Wikis mit der Programmiersprache Rust interessiert sind. Du kannst dich ihr anschließen oder andere dorthin einladen, wenn du dein Wiki zukünftig verbessern willst.
Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
Tool of the week
EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.
Nachfolgend die Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte gib diese technischen Änderungen an andere weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieser Nachricht.
Letzte Änderungen
In Wikis, in denen die Growth Team Tools verwendet werden, kann der Benutzername des Mentors eines neuen Autoren überall durch ein Magic Word angezeigt werden, zum Beispiel auch in Willkommensnachrichten und in Userboxen.
Eine neue Version des VideoCutTool ist verfügbar. Damit kann man Bilder zuschneiden und drehen sowie den Ton abschalten. Das Tool wird im Rahmen des Developer-Outreach-Programms entwickelt.
Probleme
Es gab ein Problem mit der Job Queue. Deshalb wurden einige Änderungen nicht gespeichert und es kam es zu Datenverlust. Außerdem wurden Massennachrichten verzögert. Wikitext-Bearbeitungen waren davon aber nicht betroffen. [34]
Es könnte Probleme beim automatischen Login mit Firefox und Safari geben. [35]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 3 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 März (Kalender).
Letzter Kommentar: vor 3 Jahren2 Kommentare2 Personen sind an der Diskussion beteiligt
Hallo Tidoni, Du hattest den "Autoreviewer" verschoben und in der toolforge reaktiviert. Vielen Dank dafür. Seit ein paar Tagen ist der Autoreviewer aber wieder nicht zu erreichen. Kannst Du bei der Wiedererweckung helfen? --Mister Pommeroy (Diskussion) 22:05, 6. Mär. 2021 (CET)
Danke für die Benachrichtigung, habe ich gar nicht mitbekommen. Service war nicht gestartet, warum verstehe ich nicht ganz. Habe es jetzt per Hand angestoßen, mal schauen ob es sich wieder verabschiedet... --Gruß Tidoni (Diskussion) 12:38, 7. Mär. 2021 (CET)
Wikidata weekly summary #458
Letzter Kommentar: vor 3 Jahren1 Kommentar1 Person ist an der Diskussion beteiligt
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Vorlage:Q Meetup 2021-03-08 Vorlage:Q
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[36]
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
"Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
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
Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [38]
Problems
Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [39]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [40]
Future changes
There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [41][42]
New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)
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
Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [43]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).
Future changes
You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [44][45]
You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [46]
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 März at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 23 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 24 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 25 März (Kalender).
Die für das Syntax-Highlighting genutzten Farben werden geändert, damit sie besser zu erkennen sind. Diese Veränderung wird bald in den ersten Wikis erfolgen. [47]
Zukünftige Änderungen
Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain.[48][49]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work.[50]
March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021(Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[51]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.
Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Some very old web browsersdon’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.[52]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams.[53]
Probleme
When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem.[54]
Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this.[55][56]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 März verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 31 März. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 April (Kalender).
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first.[57]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
The citoidAPI will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format.[58]
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 6 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 7 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 8 April (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.
April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
April 8: Documentation Q&A
April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[59]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).
Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.
Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.[60][61]
If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces.[62][63][64]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before.[65]
The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Zukünftige Änderungen
The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
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Letzte Änderungen
Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster.[66][67][68]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 April verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 28 April. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 April (Kalender).
Letzter Kommentar: vor 3 Jahren1 Kommentar1 Person ist an der Diskussion beteiligt
Hallo, da alle eingetragenen Maintainer von wikilint offenbar seit Monaten inaktiv sind und Du Deine Absicht erklärt hast, es zu adoptieren: Wie sieht es damit aus?
Falls das nicht weit oben auf Deiner Prioritätenliste stehen sollte, hast Du eine gute Idee, wie sich das auf FzW diskutierte Problem effizient lösen ließe?
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
Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.
Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [70]
Changes later this week
Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [71][72]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Future changes
The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [73]
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 11 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 12 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 13 Mai (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
Die für den Wikimedia Hackathon vom 22.–23. Mai geplanten Projekte sind veröffentlicht worden.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
In einer früheren Ausgabe der Tech News war die Rede davon, dass die citoid -API Daten, die den Monat, aber nicht den Tag enthalten, anders behandeln werde. Das ist bis auf weiteres zurückgestellt worden, weil es sich auf verschiedenen Wikis ganz unterschiedlich auswirkte. [79]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist wird umbenannt zu: MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. Die Liste kann auf den neuen Namen verschoben werden. In einigen Wikis wird das am 19. Mai, auf anderen erst am 20. Mai geschehen. Die Liste enthält Bilder, die nicht als Vorschaubildern in Artikeln angezeigt werden sollen. [80]
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 18 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 19 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 20 Mai (Kalender).
Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
Upcoming
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
May 21-22, 2021 [81] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)
#1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Die Wikimedia-Projekte nutzten lange IRC über das Freenode-Netzwerk. Es gab Änderungen in Bezug darauf, wer die Kontrolle über das Netzwerk hat. Die Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts hat entschieden in das neue Libera Chat-Netzwerk zu wechseln. Dies ist keine formale Entscheidung für die Wikimedia-Projekte alle Channel umzuiehen, aber die meisten IRC-Channel werden Freenode wohl verlassen. Es gibt einen Migrationsleitfaden und eine andauernde Discussion über diesen Vorgang.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 25 Mai verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 26 Mai. Auf allen Wikis ab 27 Mai (Kalender).
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [82], June 1st.
Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)
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Probleme
Es gab Probleme mit der Textgröße der Kategorien und der Hinweise unter dem Seitentitel. Das wurde am Montag behoben. [83]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 8 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 9 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 10 Juni (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future.[84][85][86]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages.[87]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters.[88][89]
SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...
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Letzte Änderungen
Angemeldete Benutzer der mobilen Website können in den erweiterten mobilen Modus wechseln. Darin werden Kategorien ähnlich wie in der Standardansicht für den Desktop angezeigt. Helferlein, die bisher nur für Desktop-Benutzer verfügbar waren, können nun auch für die mobile Ansicht bereitgestellt werden. Wenn es in eurem Wiki solche Helferlein geben sollte, könnten sie für die mobile Ansicht freigegeben werden, wenn ihr das wollt. Einige müssen wahrscheinlich an die mobile Version angepasst werden. [90]
Die deutschsprachige Wikipedia, die englische Wikivoyage und 29 kleine Wikis können voraussichtlich am 22. Juni zwischen 5:00 und 5:30 Uhr UTC (7:00 bis 7:30 Uhr Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) nicht bearbeitet werden. [92]
In der Woche ab dem 28. Juni können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Näheres demnächst an dieser Stelle und auf den Nachrichtenseiten in den einzelnen Wikis. [93][94]
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).
Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Die Gruppe otrs-member heißt nun vrt-permissions. Das kann Auswirkungen auf Missbrauchsfilter haben. [95]
Probleme
You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC.[96]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 22 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 23 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 24 Juni (Kalender).
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [97], June 29th.
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!
Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
"en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page.[99]
Probleme
You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.[100][101]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 29 Juni verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 30 Juni. Auf allen Wikis ab 1 Juli (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
Threshold for stub link formatting, Standardgröße der Vorschaubilder and Überschriften automatisch nummerieren can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.[102][103]
User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Tech-News
Die nächste Ausgabe der Tech-News wird es am 19. Juli 2021 geben.
Letzte Änderungen
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.[104]
Probleme
InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org.[105]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.[106][107]
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Zukünftige Änderungen
Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.[108]
LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [109], July 13th.
Vorlage:Q, by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.
Letzte Änderungen
Das Tool zum suchen, ergänzen und entfernen von Vorlagen wurde aktualisiert. Dadurch soll es einfacher werden, passende Vorlagen zu finden. Es sollte am 7. Juli auf den ersten Wikis freigegeben werden, kommt nun aber erst am 12. Juli heraus. Die Freigabe auf anderen Wikis wird später folgen. [110][111]
Special:UnconnectedPages gibt eine Liste von Seiten aus, die bisher nicht mit Wikidata-Einträgen verknüpft worden sind, damit man dem leichter abhelfen kann. Es gibt aber Seiten, die nicht mit Wikidata verknüpft werden sollten. In solchen Fällen kann man jetzt das magic word__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ auf solchen Seiten einsetzen, die nicht auf der Spezialseite ausgegeben werden sollen. [112]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 20 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 21 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 22 Juli (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
Die HTML-Ausgabe des Parsers wird demnächst geändert. Das kann sich auf Bots, Helferlein, User-Skripte und Erweiterungen auswirken. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren. Tests sind möglich im Testwiki oder im Testwiki 2.
Die Parameter, mit denen man Tokens über die MediaWiki-API erhalten kann, wurden im Jahr 2014 geändert. Die alte Variante wird ab dem 1. September 2021 nicht mehr funktionieren. Skripte, Bots und Tools, die noch die alten Parameter aus der Zeit vor der Änderung 2014 verwenden, müssen aktualisiert werden. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [113], July 27th.
COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
Still mapping!"Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.
Letzte Änderungen
A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 27 Juli verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 28 Juli. Auf allen Wikis ab 29 Juli (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preferenceResponsiven Modus aktivieren. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
Nachfolgend die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Bitte gibt sie an andere Benutzer weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich unmittelbar betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen.
Letzte Änderungen
If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Erinnerung: Wikimedia ist aus dem alten Freenode-Netzwerk in das Libera Chat IRC-Netzwerk gewechselt. Lokale Dokumentation sollte aktualisiert werden.
Probleme
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly.[114][115]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages.[116]
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 3 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 4 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 5 August (Kalender).
Zukünftige Änderungen
The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Diskussions-Werkzeuge will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [117], Aug 10th.
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Community von Wikimedia. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Äanderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen alle Nutzer. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Probleme
Am 10. August konnten 17 Wikis einige Minuten lang gelesen, aber nicht editiert werden. Das ist geplant um 05:00 UTC, wegen Arbeiten an der Datenbank. [118]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Der Wikimania Hackathon wird am 13. August online stattfinden, beginnend um 5:00 UTC und geht 24 Stunden lang. Es gibt verschiedene Teilnahmemöglichkeiten. Projekte und Sessions können noch vorgeschlagen werden.
Die neue Version von MediaWiki wird auf Test-Wikis und MediaWiki.org ab 10 August zu finden sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 11 August. Sie wird auf allen Wikis ab 12 August (calendar) verfügbar sein.
Altes CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> wird nach dem 12. August nicht mehr unterstützt. Stattdessen sollten Vorlagen und Seiten <div style="clear:both;"></div> benutzen. Bitte helft dabei mit, alle existierenden Anwendungen auf euren Wikis entsprechend zu ersetzen. Links für die globale Suche sind verfügbar bei T287962.
Künftige Änderungen
The Wikipedia Library ist ein Ort für Wikipedia-Editoren, wo auf Quellen zugegriffen werden kann. Es gibt eine Erweiterung mit einer neuen Funktion, Nutzern mitzuteilen wann sie teilnehmen können. Es kommen Benachrichtigungen zum Einsatz. Die ersten Nutzer werden im September angepingt. Mehr Nutzer werden später angepingt. [119]
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Community von Wikimedia. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Äanderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen alle Nutzer. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
Sprachlinks können wieder in der Seitenleiste im new Vector-Skin hinzugefügt werden, indem die Seite mit einem Wikidata-Item verbunden wird. Der neue Vector-Skin hat die Sprachlinks bewegt, doch der neue Sprachen-Selektor kann noch keine Sprachlinks hinzufügen. [121]
Probleme
Es gab ein Problem mit der Erweiterung Translate. Übersetzungen wurden nicht aktualisiert oder mit englischem Text ersetzt. Der Bug ist behoben worden. [122][123][124]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Ein Schlagwort für Revisionen ergänzt bald Bearbeitungen, die Links zu Begriffsklärungsseiten einbinden, weil diese Links normalerweise versehentlich eingebunden werden. Der Tag wird es Bearbeitern ermöglichen, defekte Links leichter zu finden und zu reparieren. Wenn dein Wiki dieses Feature nicht mag, kann es auch versteckt werden. [125]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page.[126]
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 17 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 18 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 19 August (Kalender).
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.
Probleme
Einige Wikis können für wenige Minuten am 25 August zwar gelesen aber nicht bearbeitet werden. Das wird um 06:00 UTC passieren. Grund dafür sind Arbeiten an der Datenbank. Während dieser Zeit werden CentralAuth-Aktionen auch nicht möglich sein.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 24 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 25 August. Auf allen Wikis ab 26 August (Kalender).
Am Mittwoch August 25 06:00 UTC wird es eine Unterbrechung der Verfügbarkeit zu Wartungszwecken geben. Sie sollte nur wenige Minuten dauern.
Auch CentralAuth wird in dieser Zeit nicht zur Verfügung stehen (GlobalRenames, Ändern/Bestätigen von E-Mail-Adressen, Einloggen in neue Wikis, Ändern von Passwörtern).
Weitere Einzelheiten zu dem Vorgang und zu den betroffenen Diensten findest du auf Phabricator.
Eine halbe Stunde vorher wird ein Banner geschaltet.
Bitte gib diese Nachricht über die Wartungsarbeiten an deine Community weiter. Danke!
22:33, 24. Aug. 2021 (CEST)
Wikidata weekly summary #483
Letzter Kommentar: vor 3 Jahren1 Kommentar1 Person ist an der Diskussion beteiligt
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Die Syntax von Musiknoten funktioniert teilweise nicht mehr und muss daher aktualisiert werden. Unter Category:Wikipedia:Seite mit Notensatzfehlern kann eine Liste der fehlerhaften Seiten in deinem Wiki ausgegeben werden.
Probleme
Beim Musiknotensatz war es in einigen Sprachen nicht möglich, die Liedertexte hinzuzufügen, weil dazu Schriften fehlten. Das wurde nun behoben. Wenn du in deiner Sprache lieber eine andere Schriftart verwenden möchtest, teile uns das bitte auf Phabricator mit. [127]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die Parameter, mit denen man Token über die MediaWiki-API erhalten kann, wurden im Jahr 2014 geändert. Die alte Variante wird ab dem 1. September 2021 nicht mehr funktionieren. Skripte, Bots und Tools, die noch die alten Parameter aus der Zeit vor der Änderung 2014 verwenden, müssen aktualisiert werden. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 31 August verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 September (Kalender).
Künftige Änderungen
Commons kann einige Minuten lang am 6 September zwar gelesen aber nicht bearbeitet werden. Das wird um 06:00 UTC passieren. Grund dafür sind Arbeiten an der Datenbank.
In der Woche des 13. September können alle Wikis für einige Minuten nicht bearbeitet werden. Näheres demnächst an dieser Stelle und in den einzelnen Wikis in den kommenden Wochen. [128]
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [129], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
Dies sind die neuesten Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte erzähle anderen Benutzern von diesen Änderungen. Nicht alle werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieses Newsletters.
Letzte Änderungen
Bei den Wikis, in denen die Growth-Features installiert wurden, hat es seit deren Einführung A/B-Tests gegeben, bei denen einige Neulinge die neuen Features nicht erhielten. Von nun an werden alle neu angemeldeten Benutzer in den 21 kleinsten dieser Wikis diese Features von Anfang an erhalten. [130]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Zukünftige Änderungen
Die jQuery-Bibliothek war im Jahr 2017 von Version 1 zu 3 aktualisiert worden, einschließlich eines Kompatibilitäts-Layers. Die Migration wird bald abgeschlossen sein, so dass die Website für alle schneller lädt. Falls du ein Helferlein oder ein Skript betreust, kümmere dich bitte um evtl. JQMIGRATE-Fehlermeldungen und behebe sie, sonst werden dein Helferlein oder dein Skript bald nicht mehr funktionieren. [131][132]
Vergangenes Jahr lief in der Portugiesischen Wikipedia ein Experiment: Nur eingeloggte Benutzer sollten seitden Bearbeitungen vornehmen können. Der Bericht über die Ergebnisse dieses Versuchs ist fertig. Im weiteren Verlauf sucht das Anti-Harassment-Tools-Team nach Projekten, die bereit sind, mit Editier-Beschränkungen für IPs zu experimentieren. Hier kannst du dazu mehr erfahren.
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
In den meisten Wikipedias gibt es jetzt die Growth-Features. Das Growth-Team hat zu den Features eine FAQ-Seite veröffentlicht. Diese übersetzbare FAQ deckt die Beschreibung der Features ab, wie man sie benutzt, wie man die Konfiguration ändert und mehr.
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 September (Kalender).
Von dieser Woche an wird die italienischsprachige Wikipedia jeden Mittwoch wöchentliche Software-Updates bekommen. Durch diese Änderung können Bugs schneller bemerkt und behoben werden. [135]
Beim neuen Vector-Skin kann man wieder Sprachlinks in der Navigationsleiste hinzufügen, indem man die Seite mit einem Wikidata-Item verbindet. Beim neuen Vector-Skin wurden die Sprachlinks an eine andere Stelle platziert, beim neuen Sprachen-Selektor kann man aber noch keine Sprachlinks hinzufügen. [136]
Das Werkzeug für die Syntax-Markierung markiert Code mit unterschiedlichen Farben. Damit können jetzt 23 neue Codesprachen markiert werden. Zusätzlich kann golang jetzt als Alias für die Programmiersprache Go verwendet werden, und ein spezieller output Modus wurde hinzugefügt, um die Ausgabe eines Programms anzuzeigen. [137][138]
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [139], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
Die neuesten Technik-Nachrichten aus der technischen Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
Growth-Features werden jetzt auf alle Wikipedias angewendet. Für die meisten kleinen Wikipedias sind die Features nur für erfahrene Nutzer verfügbar, um die Features zu testen und zu konfigurieren. Die Features werden für Neulinge ab dem 20. September 2021 verfügbar sein.
Das MediaWiki hatte ein Feature, bei dem lokale Links zu Kurzartikeln in einem anderen Stil hervorgehoben wurden. Jeder Nutzer konnte die Größe wählen, in der vorläufige Einträge hervorgehoben werden konnten. Dieses Feature schadete der Performance und nach einer Abstimmung wurde es wieder entfernt. [140]
Eine technische Änderung wurde an dem MonoBook-Skin vorgenommen, um die Wartung und Pflege zu vereinfachen. Das führte zu einigen kleinen Änderungen beim HTML, was das MonoBook-HTML mit anderen Skins vereinheitlicht. Es wurden schon Versuche unternommen, die Auswirkungen auf Editoren zu minimieren, aber bitte pingt Jon (WMF) auf dem Wiki oder im Phabricator, falls Probleme gemeldet werden.
Probleme
Es gab letzte Woche ein Problem mit der Suche. Viele Suchanfragen waren 2 Stunden lang nicht funktionsfähig aufgrund eines versehentlichen Neustarts der Suchserver. [141]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 21 September verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 22 September. Auf allen Wikis ab 23 September (Kalender).
Die meta=proofreadpage API wurde geändert. Der piprop-Parameter wurde umbenannt zu prpiprop. API-Nutzer sollten ihren Code aktualisieren, um Warnungen zu unbekannten Parametern zu vermeiden. Pywikibot-Nutzer sollten auf 6.6.0 upgraden. [142]
Künftige Änderungen
Das Reply-Werkzeug wird in den kommenden Wochen auf die verbleibenden Wikis angewendet. Es ist aktuell Teil von "Diskussions-Werkzeuge" in den Beta-Features auf den meisten Wikis. Man wird sie in den Bearbeitungseinstellungen auch wieder deaktivieren können. [143]
Die früher angekündigte Änderung zur Erlangung von Tokens von der wurde auf den 21. September verschoben wegen einer Inkompatibilität mit Pywikibot. Bot-Betreiber, die Pywikibot benutzen, können für Fortschritte zu einem Fix T291202 folgen und sollten schon einmal planen, auf 6.6.1 upzugraden, sobald es veröffentlicht wurde.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
Neuigkeiten aus der technischen Wikimediagemeinschaft. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Keine Sorge, es betreffen dich nicht alle Änderungen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.
Probleme
Einige Helferlein und Benutzerskripte fügen Einträge in portlets (Artikelwerkzeuge) hinzu. Falls die Links neuerdings eine andere Schriftgrösse haben, fügt man am besten die CSS-Klasse .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon ein. [144]
Änderungen im Lauf der Woche
Testwiki und MediaWiki.org erhält ab 28 September neue Version von Mediawiki. Außer auf Wikipedia wird die Version ab 29 September auf allen Wikis verfügbar. Auf Wikipedia gibt es die Version ab 30 September (Kalender).
"GettingStarted", eine Erweiterung für Neueinsteiger aus 2013, wird am 4. Oktober deaktiviert. Bitte verwendet die neuen Erweiterungen für Neueinsteiger (Growth-Features). [145]
Ein altes Stammzertifikat läuft am 30. September ab. Benutzer die ihren Browser mehr als fünf Jahre nicht aktualisiert haben können möglicherweise nicht auf Wikimedia Seiten und andere Seiten im Internet zugreifen. Mehr Info gibts hier.
Du erhältst eine Nachricht wenn jemand deinen Namen in einem Kommentar erwähnt. Ein Klick auf die Nachricht bringt dich nun zum entsprechenden Kommentar und markiert ihn. Mehr Info in T282029.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews.If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org ab 5 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 6 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 7 Oktober (Kalender).
Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response.[147]
A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis.If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.
Zukünftige Änderungen
You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions.[148]
Die JavaScript-Variablen wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars und wgIllegalFileChars werden bald aus mw.config entfernt werden. Sie gehören nicht zu den "stabilen" Variablen, die für die Verwendung in MediaWiki-JavaScript zur Verfügung stehen. [149]
Die JavaScript-Variablen wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath und wgCookieExpiration werden bald aus mw.config entfernt. Scripte sollen stattdessen mw.cookie aus dem Modul "mediawiki.cookie" nutzen. [150]
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 12 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 13 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 14 Oktober (Kalender).
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
Videos
Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [151], Oct 19th.
Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Toolhub ist ein Katalog, der es einfacher macht, Software-Tools für das Bearbeiten der Wikimedia-Projekte zu finden. Du kannst mehr dazu lesen.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 20 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 Oktober (Kalender).
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
Neuigkeiten aus der technischen Wikimediagemeinschaft. Bitte informiert andere Nutzer über diese Änderungen. Keine Sorge, die Änderungen werden nicht jeden betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
Für den Coolest Tool Award 2021 werden Nominierungen gesucht. Werkzeuge können bis zum 27. Oktober vorgeschlagen werden.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 26 Oktober verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 27 Oktober. Auf allen Wikis ab 28 Oktober (Kalender).
Künftige Änderungen
Diff-Seiten bekommen eine verbesserte Copypaste-Funktion. Die Änderungen werden es ermöglichen, dass der Text im Diff für Vorher und Nachher wie separate Spalten behandelt wird und ungewollte Syntax entfernt wird. [152]
Die Version der Liberation-Schriftarten, die in SVG-Dateien benutzt wird, wird verbessert. Nur neue Bildvorschauen werden betroffen sein. Liberation Sans Narrow bleibt unverändert. [153]
Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen.
Letzte Änderungen
Es gibt ein Limit für die Anzahl der E-Mails, die ein Benutzer pro Tag versenden kann. Dieses Limit wird nun global statt pro Wiki konfiguriert. Das soll Missbrauch verhindern. [154]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 2 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias ab 3 November. Auf allen Wikis ab 4 November (Kalender).
Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen auch alle.
Letzte Änderungen
Autoren mit mobiler IP können ab sofort Warnhinweise dafür bekommen, dass sie auf einer Diskussionsseite auf der mobilen Seite eine Nachricht bekommen haben (ähnlich zu den orangenen Bannern am Computer). Diese Hinweise werden auf jeder Seite außerhalb des Haupt-Namespaces angezeigt und jedes Mal, wenn ein Nutzer eine Bearbeitung vornimmt. Der Hinweis am Computer hat jetzt eine etwas andere Farbe bekommen. [155][156]
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Künftige Änderungen
In Zukunft wird unregistrierten Autoren eine Identität zugeordnet, die nicht ihrer IP-Adresse entspricht. Anlass dafür sind rechtliche Gründe. Ein neues Benutzerrecht erlaubt es Autoren, die die IPs unregistrierter Konten erfahren müssen, um Vandalismus, Spam und Störungen zu bekämpfen, die IP zu sehen. Vorschläge zur Funktionsweise der Identität und Austausch auf der Diskussionsseite.
Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.
Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)
Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
Die meisten Fehler bei Uploads großer Dateien, bei denen es Fehlermeldungen wie "stashfailed" oder "DBQueryError" gab, wurden behoben. Ein Vorfallsbericht ist verfügbar.
Probleme
Manchmal werden bei Bearbeitungen über den Visual Editor auf iOS aufgrund einer Funktion des Betriebssystems Zahlengruppen als Links auf Telefonnummern gespeichert. Dieses Problem wird untersucht. [158]
Letzte Woche gab es ein Problem mit der Suche. Zwei Stunden lang haben aufgrund eines Konfigurationsfehlers viele Suchanfragen nicht funktioniert. [159]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 16. November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 17. November. Auf allen Wikis ab 18. November (Kalender).
This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)
Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)
Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 30 November verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 1 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 2 Dezember (Kalender).
"Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
Videos
Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)
Tool of the week
Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
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Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Probleme
MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 sollte in der letzten Woche in einigen Wikis eingeführt werden. Die Einführung hat sich aufgrund unerwarteter Probleme verzögert.
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 7 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 8 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 9 Dezember (Kalender).
In allen Wikipedias ist nun unter Special:MentorDashboard eine Lotsen-Verwaltungsseite verfügbar. Sie ermöglicht es registrierten Lotsen, die Neulinge bei ihren ersten Schritten begleiten, die Aktivität der ihnen zugewiesenen Neulinge zu verfolgen. Sie ist Teil der Growth-Funktionen. Du kannst mehr darüber erfahren, wie man in deinem Wiki die Lotsen-Liste aktiviert, sowie über das Projekt Lotsen-Verwaltungsseite.
Der Vorgänger der aktuellen MediaWiki Action API (die 2008 erstellt wurde), action=ajax, wird in dieser Woche entfernt. Alle Skripte oder Bots, die ihn nutzen, müssen auf das entsprechende API-Modul wechseln. [160]
Ein altes ResourceLoader-Modul, jquery.jStorage, das seit 2016 veraltet ist, wird in dieser Woche entfernt. Alle Skripte oder Bots, die es nutzen, müssen stattdessen auf mediawiki.storage wechseln. [161]
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
"ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool
embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!
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Letzte Änderungen
Es gibt nun standardmäßig Kurz-Aliasse für den "Project:"-Namensraum in den meisten Wikis. So leitet in Wikibooks-Wikis [[WB:]] auf den lokalen Standardnamen für den [[Project:]]-Namensraum weiter. Diese Änderung soll es kleineren Gemeinschaften erleichtern, einfach auf diese Funktion zuzugreifen. Zusätzliche lokale Aliasse können weiterhin über das übliche Verfahren beantragt werden. [162]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 14 Dezember verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 15 Dezember. Auf allen Wikis ab 16 Dezember (Kalender).
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
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Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)
Aktuelle Technische Neuigkeiten aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Gemeinschaft. Bitte informiere andere Benutzer über diese Änderungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Technische Neuigkeiten
Wegen der Feiertage wird die nächste Ausgabe der Technischen Neuigkeiten erst am 10. Januar 2022 verschickt.
Letzte Änderungen
Abfragen der Erweiterung DynamicPageList (<DynamicPageList>) dürfen nun maximal 10 Sekunden dauern und schlagen fehl, wenn sie länger dauern. Dies ist eine Reaktion darauf, dass es in der Vergangenheit mehrere Ausfälle gab, bei denen lange dauernde Abfragen zu Ausfällen in allen Wikis geführt haben. [163]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
Diese Woche oder nächste Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.
Wikimedia Cloud VPS beherbergt technische Projekte für die Wikimedia-Bewegung. Entwickler müssen die Projekte beanspruchen, die sie nutzen. Dies liegt daran, dass alte und nicht genutzte Projekte einmal im Jahr entfernt werden. Nicht beanspruchte Projekte können ab Februar abgeschaltet werden. [164]
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.
If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
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There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
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