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So a print encyclopedia, a strawberry shortcake, and a sycamore walk into a bar - wait, have you heard this one? (talk) 23:24, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Schrödinger's pussy

I disagree with your closer of Schrödinger's pussy as "delete", it looks like a "no consensus" to me. You said ""Pussy" may indeed be a synonym for "cat" but I find the argument that that implies Schrödinger's pussy is therefore reasonable to be unconvincing." It doesn't really matter weather the creator had poor faith, because every one of those keeps was good faith, and we're judging the redirect itself, not the creator. You personality don't, but I, and almost all the other keeps did (also WP:CHEAP). Lastly, there were almost as many keep votes as there were delete votes. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 18:55, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I will agree that the faith of the creator is not in of itself a deciding factor - although it was worth mentioning as the page might have easily been proffered under WP:CSD#G3 at the time - you are correct that I was judging consensus toward the redirect only and not the editor. As for the close itself, of course you and the other keep !votes feel it should have been kept, that is why there is a consensus-determining process. Consensus is not a direct vote, and when judging consensus one must weigh the value of any side. On the one hand, those voicing for a Keep decision essentially said "Eh, technically pussy means cat" but could not answer the concern that "pussy" equates to "cat" doesn't imply that "Schrodinger's pussy" equates to "Schrodinger's cat"; that argument was quite strong. On the other hand, the redirect was unencyclopedic and an unlikely search term, claims made by those favoring a Delete outcome which were not successively countered. Sure, a number of good editors in good faith thought it should remain, and sure, the numbers were largely the same, but the fact remains that the arguments levied were not equivalent. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 21:40, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

As for answering the concern that "pussy" equates to "cat" doesn't imply that "Schrodinger's pussy" equates to "Schrodinger's cat", that was implied. "Pussy" = "cat" (or "vagina", but that that meaning is irreverent here). "Schrodinger's pussy" = incorrect name for "Schrodinger's cat" (say, if someone miss-remembers the exact word used for "cat" in that pharise).

As for what you said about judging consensus and weigh the value of any side, that's exactly what I did when I voted (I'm one of the people who closes RFD's). I judged that "harmless" and "No compelling reason to delete" concerns (which were not successively countered) was much stronger then the "Eh, technically "Schrodinger's pussy" doesn't equate to "Schrodinger's cat" argument. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 22:16, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Then we disagree. I find "unencyclopedic," "implausible," and "joke redirect" all to be valid reasons for deletion. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 22:58, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Mediumship mistake

Thanks, made a mistake.-19afisher — Preceding unsigned comment added by 19afisher1 (talk • contribs) 01:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

United Macedonia vandal

Hello, I noticed you just blocked 101.162.40.180 for vandalizing the United Macedonia article. Could you please do the same to the new spinoff vandal, 121.222.147.227? Thanks. --Local hero ^talk 18:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

And 60.228.74.20 now, too. The article should probably be protected. --Local hero ^talk 18:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:29, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. --Local hero ^talk 18:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2013

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Permiso

Hola. Gracias por atender mi solicitud. Creí que eran mínimo cincuenta ediciones, pues así es en es-wp. Saludos!!--Diego Leandro 19:39, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

De nada. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:44, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Granting confirmed right

Hello, I noticed you granted the confirmed user right to Csamantello (talk · contribs) in response to a request to unprotect Troy High School (California) at WP:RFPP. Although the user's first few edits to that article have been constructive, the user has been edit warring with me over a BLP violation. I have asked the user to engage me in discussion on the talk page and s/he responded with an edit summary that indicates that s/he did not even read the relevant talk page discussion. Additionally, I noted from his/her request at WP:RFPP () that s/he claimed to be a representative of the school administration; however, according to the school's website there is no indication that a person by this name is on the staff ().

I respectfully request that you reconsider granting this user right. Thank you. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 21:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I think it was really inappropriate for you to template Csamantello like that. You are clearly an involved editor, having made the exact same number of reverts as Csamantello has. How would you feel if s/he placed that template on your page? Please reread WP:BITE. The user has now commented on the talk page and is clearly without intent to further contribute, which I do not consider a good thing. There is some merit to your assertion for BLP concerns in regards to some of the names, however Csamantello even provided you with a source. You yourself failed to engage on the talkpage, opting not to go the bold-revert-discuss route. At any rate, your request is a moot point given that the user only needs to wait a couple of days before being autoconfirmed and that the editor has indicated disengagement. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 23:20, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #52

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

• Development
  • The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
  • Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
  • Worked on improving recent changes code in client
  • Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
  • Implemented string formatter
• Discussions/Press
  • RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
  • RFC about statements for items related to software
• Events
  • upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
  • There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
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I strongly disagree

I strongly disagree with you syaing that I am a sock puppet of user:Dy11111. I truly don't know "User:Dy11111". May you remove me from the list?? Because I just decided to open up that case. I have nothing to do with "user:Dy11111"! - Cre81ve 07:26, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Perth Montessori School

202.72.153.151 (talk · contribs) - Recently caught this one vandalising the article above just hours after you blocked 58.7.107.74 (talk · contribs) post-AIV - any indications of socking/block evasion? hmssolent\^{Let's convene} _{My patrols} 08:21, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Likely WP:DUCK block-evasion, evidenced by this edit. I was asleep, though, so this is now a bit stale due to timezones. There's a bit of a history so I just semi'd it for a brief period. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:15, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

You have a message!

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Melissa Tanataquidgeon Zobel

Hello Amorymeltzer,

I am DPWinslow and currently a senior at UNH looking to create a wikipedia article as a class project. The class is an upper level English course focused on contemporary Native American authors. My author is Melissa Tanataquidgeon Zobel and I've had a couple issues in creating the article. First of all, in my sandbox, I have all of the references and internal links properly done. However, when I copied and pasted the information into the "create article" section where it is now pending, none of the links transferred just the text. I believe it will be rejected since it doesn't include the links. I wanted to know how to make exactly what is in my sandbox become the content for article submission. The other issue is that I inadvertently created an article titled "Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel", and once again the text was all that transferred and not the links. I deleted the article and the blank page received the speed deletion process. Now I can't create my article because of this prior error, since the page already exists. How can I create the article with all its references and links as it is displayed in my sandbox? I am very new to Wikipedia and would appreciate any assistance.

Best regards,

Parker Winslow DPWinslow (talk) 21:46, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Glad to hear that you're working hard, and sorry you've had some issues! As far as I can see, I think your basic problem is that you are copying the text you see at User:DPWinslow/sandbox instead of moving the content from the inside of the edit page. Now, as it turns out, that's a good thing because simply copying and pasting material doesn't result in a perfect paper trail of edits and contribution history. That paper trail is required by the copyright policies that Wikipedia operates under ([creativecommons.org Creative Commons CC-BY-SA]). The way to get around this issue is simple, use the "move" button on your screen. That will allow you to move your sandbox into the main, article space, while specifying an appropriate page name.

But hold on! It's not quite ready for primetime. The edits you made the past three days (one each) were to basically copy and paste the text back in there. That's why the page content is essentially duplicated, but the references don't show up and instead you just have numbers like this: [8]. Nobody wants that. Plus, the templates you placed on the page, namely the ones for an Articles for Creation review and the User Sandbox don't belong in a mature article either. If you feel confident in the quality of the page you can remove those as well, and then move it.

If you'd like, why not remove the duplicate content, get it ready for moving, and then post back here if you want me to give it a once over. I'd be happy to answer any other questions, too. (Although I'm a tad busy at the moment so may not respond swiftly) ~ Amory (u • t • c) 22:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for granting me the reviewer right! Jsharpminor (talk) 04:11, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14

Hi Amorymeltzer! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:11, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Wikidata weekly summary #53

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

• Development
  • Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
  • Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
  • Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
  • Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
  • Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
  • Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
• Events/Press
  • right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
• Discussions
  • The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
  • RfC about policy for translation admins
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• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
  • Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
  • There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
  • If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
  • There is a new user right: property creators
  • There is now a page to request deletion of a property
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Reviewer rights

Thanks for granting me reviewer rights! --Cameron11598 (Converse) 02:22, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for granting me reviewer rights. Levdr1lostpassword / talk 15:05, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Regarding rollback rights.

User:Jayadevp13

• Jayadevp13 · (talk · contribs · deleted · cross-wiki · wikichecker · count · pages created · auto edits · logs · block log · rights log · google · lu · rfar · rfc · rfcu · ssp · spi) (assign permissions) (^{r · p · f · c})

Do you think I am now capable of holding the rollback rights? Earlier you had told me at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback that I contact you at your talk page after a week. I have done a lot of reviewing and anti-vandalism edits after that. I would be happy if you provide me with the rollback permission and promise to take maximum care while using it. - Jayadevp13 16:05, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I'm granting this. You have done a fair bit of reviewing lately, but most of that isn't rollback-ready. Please remember to be careful when using rollback - it should basically only be used on other editors if you are going to warn them. The "vandalism" link on Twinkle is essentially the same thing. Good luck and happy editing! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 16:37, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. Thanks a lot. You can take it back if you think I am misusing it. - Jayadevp13 11:05, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Chocoholic

Hello! You recently deleted the redirect page Chocoholic since it was pointing toward a deleted page, Chocoholism. Actually the Chocoholism page was about to be restored after rewriting, but somebody jumped the gun and set up this redirect before the target article was moved to mainspace. Chocoholism is live now; is it OK with you if I restore Chocoholic as a redirect? Thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 02:38, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Did it myself. Glad to see it returned! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:22, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! --MelanieN (talk) 14:34, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

DC meetups on April 19 and 20

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill ^[talk] 20:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Your input is requested

Greetings, Amorymeltzer/Archive 4! If we have not met, I'm AutomaticStrikeout. I've come here to ask you to take part in the survey at User:AutomaticStrikeout/Are admins interested in a RfB?. I am trying to gauge the general level of interest that administrators have in running for cratship, as well as pinpoint the factors that affect that interest level. Your input will be appreciated. Happy editing, AutomaticStrikeout (T • C • Sign AAPT) 02:01, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey. Thanks for creating the redirect Tom Ellison—I was just about to re-request its creation (I thought the declining reason was poor), and saw that you'd created it. - Shudde ^talk 10:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

"Butcher of the Balkans"

You closed the RfD discussion by keeping the redirect, but the article had become a fairly stable disambiguation page in the middle of the process. Someone brought that up at the RfD and the remainder of the discussion did not provide a clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC deliberation.

After that point, the original nominator mentioned consistent use, but that's not the same as primary topic. One editor (User:Thryduulf) then said:

Milošević is the primary use of the term. It is also, but less often used for Mladić [...] and also Ante Pavelić. [...] I wonder if an article about the epithet would be possible? As for this case, I think the redirect to Milošević should stay and the dab page be linked from a hatnote.

After that, User:Evlekis argued:

The label bestowed on Mladić is far more common than most realise [...]

And this was backed up by User:PRODUCER.

Later, Thryduulf said:

There has to be disambiguation, yes, but this title does not have to be a dab page - if there is a primary topic then his should be a redirect and either hatnotes or Butcher of the Balkans (disambiguation) should contain the disambiguation.

So they were no longer insisting on Milošević being the primary topic - it became a conditional.

Later still, I also argued Milošević didn't meet the primary topic criteria. Nobody argued with me about it for another week.

Overall, of all the people who earlier in the discussion said "keep" - as in "don't delete the redirect" - none of them have actually consistently argued against a full disambiguation page.

Would you please adjust the outcome to something that won't make moving the disambiguation page back in place look out of order? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:02, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Are you saying that since moving the locations of the disambiguations would be out of process, I should retroactively change how I interpreted the discussion? That is completely backwards. Here's what I read:

• 6 different editors felt the redirect should be kept, some rather strongly.
• Emmette noted that it had been turned into a disambiguation.
• Following that, there was Producer !voting keep, which we can interpret to mean the dab, Evlekis, who had switched from delete to keeping the dab (despite still arguing against WP:RNEUTRAL), and yourself.

That's it. Pointing to Thryduulf is silly - it's just one editor, and one editor who said "As for this case, I think the redirect to Milošević should stay and the dab page be linked from a hatnote." S/he was speaking in the general in your quote, responding to Evlekis' demand that there "has to be a disambiguation," noting even that this did not need to be that place. That was a surprising number of people for an RfD discussion, the fact that nobody else joined for a few days is not particularly surprising. Besides, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

At any rate, I've got nothing invested in this aside from how I feel I interpreted the discussion. I'm not 100% sure that WP:DRV is the place to go for this, are you more experienced over there? It doesn't seem like a perfect fit but I'm not sure where else we might take this sort of thing outside of some canvassing. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:52, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

You're not considering the fact that the original discussion came about as a choice between keeping the redirect and deleting it. Of course people !voted to keep it because it does actually refer to Milošević (quite often). But, the original discussion did not entertain the possibility of disambiguation - nor did it have to, really. My point is that the premise changed with the introduction of that possibility - the notion of keeping or deleting the redirect became moot because both would mean deleting a disambiguation page - which isn't what was discussed. I think canvassing those six people would be useful, to see where they stand. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 21:36, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Well I don't think that's true. Evlekis tried to speedy it, which was inappropriate, so when Fvasconcellos brought it up it was to merely have a discussion. It's redirects for discussion, not deletion, after all. I don't know that it makes everyone's opinion moot, the fact that they never even considered a disambiguation could even imply they didn't think it worthy; the only editor from before the dab'ing was Thryduulf, who still wanted a redirect. You don't think DRV would be appropriate, then? I guess I'm not opposed to WP:CANVASS but it just seems... weird. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 22:09, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

What it needs is a fresh round of talks concerning those that took original interest. There are issues with the current arrangement which would never have materialised had we all believed the sobriquet was the exclusive preserve of one individual. I for one have explained why this is all inappropriate on Talk:Butcher of the Balkans (disambiguation) and in light of the fact that it is clear certain users favour a separate layout, I believe there should be a platform for discussion somewhere. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 04:26, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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• Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
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An Barnstar for You!

	The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar
	Congratulations, Amorymeltzer! You're receiving a Brownie because you reviewed 45 articles during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! Mdann52 (talk) 12:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion review for Butcher of the Balkans

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Butcher of the Balkans. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 08:14, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, would you like to help with H7N9 bird flu?

Hi,

I'm writing to recent participants on the influenza page. I think it's important to cover H7N9, without making it overblown or overstating the case. Any time you can spare to help with the research and/or the editing will be most appreciated. Thanks. Cool Nerd (talk) 16:17, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #54

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

• Development
  • Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
  • wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
  • Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
  • Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
  • Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
  • Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
  • Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
  • Work on the storage code for answering queries
• Events/Press
  • GLAM-WIKI 2013
  • upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
  • upcoming: Opensource Treffen
  • upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
• Discussions
  • RfC about references and sources
  • RfC about local oversighters
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
  • Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
  • d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
  • Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
  • List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these

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Page deleted

Why was the Page for Sperry Marine deleted from Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.203.137.12 (talk) 11:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Sperry Marine was apparently deleted under the criterion for speedy deletion, namely G11, which is for pages that serve only to promote the subject. Basically, it had no verifiable references to establish notability and was highly promotional. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:38, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Re: Speedy deletions

It looked like a nonsense one-liner to me, but the article got deleted anyway. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 23:18, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

In this case, yes, I deleted it under A7. But G1 doesn't refer to length or to how it is written, just whether it is intelligible. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 23:27, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
  An article by John Sweeney published on 22 April 2013 on scnow.com, the website of the Florence, South Carolina Morning News, reported that Florence city officials have taken to monitoring and correcting the Wikipedia article on their city.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
  This week, we spent some time with a project that develops tools and methods for improving the user experience in the hope that new users will continue editing the encyclopedia. The project was started in July 2012 and has grown to include 124 members. The project's members partner with the Teahouse and the Welcoming Committee to spread WikiLove, welcome new users, encourage civility, and other related activities.

• News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
  The Wikimedia Conference is an annual meeting of the chapters to discuss their status and the organisational development of the Wikimedia movement. For the first time it included groups that wish to be considered for WMF affiliation as thematic organisations and one of the three groups that was recently affiliated as a user group. The conference was also attended by members of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the WMF Affiliations Committee, and a representative of the Wikivoyage Association.

• Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
  Nine articles, four lists, eight pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

• Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
  The Sexology case is nearing completion after arbitrators were unable to agree on a topic ban for one of the participants.

• Technology report: A flurry of deployments
  On Monday, the English Wikipedia became the 12th wiki to be able to pull data from the central Wikidata.org repository, with other wikis scheduled to receive the update on Wednesday.

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GOCE April 2013 newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #55

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

• Development
  • Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
  • Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
  • Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
  • Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
  • Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
  • Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
  • Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
  • Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
• Events/Press
  • A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb, Wikidata goes live worldwide, Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia
  • Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB
  • Office hour about references (log)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
  • OpensourceTreffen in Munich
  • Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
• Discussions
  • RfC about vandalism
  • RfP for oversighters
  • RfC about interproject links interface
  • RfC about inactive administrators
  • RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
  • RfC about Kinship
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Phase 2 has been deployed on English Wikipedia and all remaining ones
  • Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
  • Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
  • Page edits have passed 31 million.
  • d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
  • Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata on English Wikipedias
• Did you know?
  • Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
  • Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
  • Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
  • Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Translate the Table of properties into your language
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is here.

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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

• News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
  The Funds Dissemination Committee released its recommendations to the WMF board last Sunday. The news that the Hong Kong chapter's application for US$212K had failed was followed by a strongly worded resignation announcement by Deryck Chan on the public Wikimedia-l mailing-list.

• In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
  On 24 April 2013, novelist Amanda Filipacchi published what turned out to be an influential op-ed in the New York Times; illuminating the unusual background of the Yuri Gadyukin hoax.

• Featured content: Wiki loves video games
  Nine articles, three lists, three pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" this week.

• WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
  This week, we traveled to the Japanese Wikipedia's WikiProject Baseball for perspectives from a version of Wikipedia that treats WikiProjects as their own unique namespace (プロジェクト:) independent of "Wikipedia:".

• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles
  The WP:TOP25 and WP:5000 reports chronicle the most popular Wikipedia articles on a weekly basis.

• Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
  The Sexology case closed shortly after publication with no changes.

• Recent research: Sentiment monitoring; UNESCO and systemic bias; and more
  A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.

• Technology report: New notifications system deployed across Wikipedia
  This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".

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Wiknic 2013

Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making

Lake Merritt Wild Duck Refuge (Oakland, CA)

This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!

Location and Directions

• Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
  • Nearest BART: 19th Street
  • Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
  • Street parking abounds

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Wikidata weekly summary #56

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

• Development
  • Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
  • Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
  • Worked on improving the DataTypes system
  • Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
  • Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
  • Catching up with Selenium tests
• Events/Press
  • Hypertext 2013
  • upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RFC to enable the "flood flag"
  • RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
  • RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
  • 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
    • when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
    • fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
    • added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
    • fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
  • Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
  • Visual query interface for Wikidata
  • 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
  • Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion

I notice that you undertake work at this article. Have I put my query on that article's talk page in the wrong place ? It is hardly earth shattering in its consequence, but I would have thought that someone might have posted an opinion after this period of time. Thanks,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 00:59, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

@Derek R Bullamore: Meh, just create the redirect. If it turns out there needs to be a dab later it's simple enough to do, but right now it hardly looks worthwhile to involve the other mentions. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:23, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice - I have created a redirect page at John Nemeth. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:57, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

AIV

Hi Amory--please block Ilikeweiner (talk · contribs) as a VOA. Thank you. 207.157.121.52 (talk) 17:22, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

• Never mind: Reaper got your bonus on this one. Thanks, 207.157.121.52 (talk) 17:25, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

  Damn, I could've used the cash. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:31, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

• Jewsarelegit (talk · contribs) is still up for grabs; Reaper is slacking on the job. 207.157.121.52 (talk) 17:45, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
• There is no bonus for Yourmommagay (talk · contribs) or Yodaddygay (talk · contribs) or Where my ho`s at (talk · contribs)--it's too simple. 207.157.121.52 (talk) 17:48, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Notifications box replacement prototypes released

Hey Amorymeltzer; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, May 11!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, May 11 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 23:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Thank You

Thank you for deleting the redirects. They were the result of the way Move works when moving from mainspace to mainspace, but when moving from user subpages to mainspace, it creates empty redirects. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Rodhullandemureturns

Did you know this was a sock of a banned user? [] Hell In A Bucket (talk) 13:50, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Only after I blocked did I look up to see Rodhu had been banned. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #57

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

• Development
  • Implemented basic editing of Time values
  • Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
  • Work on RDF mapping/export
  • ~=[,,_,,]:3
  • Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
  • Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
• Events/Press
  • Interview on dradio.de
  • PHP Unconference Europe 2013
  • PHP Days 1013 Berlin
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• Discussions
  • RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
  • RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem
  • New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
  • Newest task forces: Baseball
• Open Tasks for You
  • Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
  Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June. The elections will fill vacancies in three categories, the most prominent of which will be the three community-elected seats on the ten-member Board of Trustees (or the first Board meeting after the election results are announced, if sooner). The current two-year terms for these trustee positions ends on 1 September.

• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy
  The Wikimedia Foundation will be receiving more than $100,000 worth of free developer time courtesy of internet giant Google, it was announced this week. The funds, allocated as part of Google's Summer of Code programme, will support up to 21 student developers through three months of coding time.

• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
  May sees the beginning of Round 3 of the 2013 WikiCup, with 33 of the original 127 competitors remaining. ... six articles, ten pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
  The SOS Children's Villages news service advised on 3 May 2013 that Wikipedia for Schools 2013 is nearly ready for release. ... On 26 April 2013, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation published an article reviewing Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's edits to the English Wikipedia, where it revealed the name of Breivik's English Wikipedia account.

• WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
  This week's English Wikipedia project, WikiProject Biophysics, is home to several experts in their fields and a collaboration with the Biophysical Society. The project is hosting a contest through July 15 with six contributors winning $100 in cash and given the opportunity to attend the 2014 meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco. Other strong entries will be awarded barnstars online and everyone who contributes can receive a physical button mailed out to them.

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You're invited...

to two upcoming Bay Area events:

• Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
• Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.

I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:51, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Question

If I create accounts, do administrators know my ip address? How to know my ip address if I create accounts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fceefyahoo.ca (talk • contribs) 23:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Another sysop replied on the user's talk page. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 00:38, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2013

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
  The removal of administrator rights from all volunteers on the Wikimedia Foundation's official website sparked a highly emotional reaction on the Wikimedia-l mailing list—one of the largest off-wiki methods of communication for the Wikimedia movement.

• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
  This week, we spent some time watching WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts, which was started in August 2005 and has grown to include 12 Good Articles and a Featured List.

• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
  Fourteen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia, including Boletus luridus, seen above.

• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
  An article published on May 10 on Odwyerpr.com written by Greg Hazley documented a "spar" between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and public relations firm Qorvis partner Matt Lauer, who disputes Wikipedia's guideline discouraging public relations firms from editing articles on their clients.

• Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases
  The Race and politics case has been accepted for arbitration, and the evidence phase is now open. Two other cases remain open.

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DC WikiSalon on May 24

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of May 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 18:31, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Rollback

Hi There! You stated that you wont "outright deny" my request for rollback privileges, because of my 700 reverts in a period of 5 days (Using Twinkle) and most of those reverts was using Twinkle, they were also constructive. The last request I placed was denied for obvious reasons, but the admin told me to ask again once I have racked up some reverts, which I did. Please I stayed up all night trying to make Wikipedia a better place, I mainly want rollback to use Huggle and STiki. Cheers The Grand Cenobite (talk) 22:09, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Rollback is not a big deal. I said I wasn't going to outright deny it because you clearly put in a massive effort but I just wanted to note for another passing sysop that you had a recent request. I am personally of the opinion that both time and edits are needed, sheer numbers isn't necessarily the whole thing. You're clearly enjoying reverting vandalism so why not just continue reverting and don't sweat it?

I will keep reverting vandalism for sure! Cheers The Grand Cenobite (talk) 23:19, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #58

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

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
  Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.

• WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
  This week, we traveled to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The project was started in May 2006 and has 37 featured articles.

• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
  On 16 May, the Spanish Wikipedia became the seventh Wikipedia to cross the million article Rubicon, a symbolic yet important achievement.

• In the media: Qworty incident continues
  Salon.com published another article detailing the ongoing incidents with Wikipedia user Qworty, who has identified himself as Robert Clark Young. It documents Qworty's role in the controversy involving Amanda Filipacchi's op-ed, which kindled a debate on Wikipedia sexism as it relates to categories, where Qworty was responsible for a series of revenge edits against Filipacchi in the days after she released her op-ed.

• Featured content: Up in the air
  Nine articles, six lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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Webinar / edit-a-thon at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!

organized by Wiki Project Med

On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.

Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.

If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho (talk) 00:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #59

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

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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G13

As for ANY speedy, you are supposed to look at the articles before you delete them, which you cannot do at 20 per minute. I do not think anybody can responsibly do them at the speed you are doing them , singlehanded, rather than nominating them for deletion for someone else to check. I have already rescued one two of your most recent deletions. One noted sportswriter, one head of a university, more probably.

G13 will be very useful, but not as you are doing it. Please stop doing them singlehanded until it can be discussed whether or not they need to be done by two admins. DGG ( talk ) 03:31, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Quite right you are, DGG. But it is indeed quite possible to review all those articles over a period of over 4 days, which is in fact what I did. You've now rescued 3 as far as I can tell, but it sounds to me like your qualm is really more with the G13 criteria itself as well as the effectiveness and acceptability of reviewers at AfC. I note that mainspace viability is not actually a factor in the G13 criteria, and the obvious consensus in the talkpage discussion is against considering it, where, I'll note, you are one of only four editors disagreeing. This was never about mainspace viability - if it were, the article should never have been declined to begin with. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 05:29, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

No, my qualm is not with G13, it's with the blind application of G13. I look forward to deleting several thousand G13s myself--in fact, it was I who brought forward the problem and suggested we remove the old ones that were unlikely to make articles. I know I am in a minority about what needs to be checked, and I would not continue in the minority unless I were prepared to actually do what I urge others to do, which is to not just examine the articles, but actually rescue them. I've now found a 4th, one of the mayors of Memphis, Tenn.,which I'll have ready in the morning. 4 out of about 40 I looked at, which is about half of the total -- some were obviously impossible. In addition to those 4, there were another 2 or 3 at least that would have been borderline had I restored them, and in fields I do not particular care to work. Normally I would restore them as afcs though not as articles, so that others could work on them, but at this point I don't want to do anything questionable. I think the fact that i found so many might help to convince people, and I want a clean case for it.

You say they should not have been declined; but they were declined because they needed significant work to complete. They were not in a state ready to be accepted, unless the person accepting them was prepared to to do the work themselves, and we usually try to encourage the original editor to do it. What was missing, was not following them up when they weren't worked on; it was missing because the AfC procedure makes no provision for that and nobody individually bothered, even tho some of the reviewers did comment specifically that the work was needed was practical. The real problem, is that the AfC procedure was set up so badly as to let the backlog get in this awful mess.

I apologize for sounding perhaps a little preemptory, but I am faced with the need to work on thousands of articles that others should be helping in but don't seem likely, and I want to do everything I possibly can to convince them before I give up in exhaustion. DGG ( talk ) 07:10, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

So... you're welcome! In all seriousness, I admire the massive effort you've been willing to undertake, but once again it sounds like your problem is with AfC. I'd be quite interested to hear what you think was set up so badly and how to stem the backlog tide, but what you are suggesting is a complete re-evaluation of every submitted draft. That, to me, is advocating a referendum on the entire AfC protocol, turning that into a two-reviewer process. I think you know better than most that notable topics are submitted to the CSD process every day, and as long as there is be a G13, submissions on notable topics will be deleted. The only way to avoid that is to review each one for, as was proposed, mainspace promise/non-AfDability, which is a backdoor way to re-review your fellow AfC reviewers. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:23, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

True, I have many problems with AfC, as you will see from various discussions on my talk p., & one of which is the difficulty in reviewing articles. But I certainly intend to use G13--in fact, I was the one who proposed the general idea, though I am surprised people want to do it is so drastic a fashion after having totally neglected the matter for years. Having it is one of the improvements I want to make.

I certainly do intend to review the way people review afcs. When I became an admin, the main reason I gave for the buttons was the desire to review deleted articles, and this was for the purpose not just of catching bad deletions, but people deleting improperly. I've been doing it for 6 years now, and others have been checking also, and speedies are in general being done much more consistently, with much less single-handinded deletions on the grounds of IDONTTHINKITSNOTABLE. What gives me the authority? The inherent ability we all have at WP to correct each other, and the expectation and indeed the need in a crowd-sourcing project for us to do so. People tell me when they think I'm wrong, and if an experienced person tells me so, usually I decide that I may well have been wrong--and sometimes it has changed my own practice. If people think my work is generally reliable, it's not because of any inherent skill, but because they've been instructing me a long time, and I listen. DGG ( talk ) 16:15, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Questions about my page "The TerraMar Project" being deleted

Hi Amorymeltzer

I created a page called The TerraMar Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rakswami/The_TerraMar_Project), and was told that I didn't have relevant sources/press coverage for it to be published. I went back and found significant press coverage for it, and added the links, and resubmitted it for publishing. But the log now says the page has been deleted. Is this for some sort of copyright violation?

I'm trying to get this page published on behalf of the organisation and I want to explain to them why this happened. Could you please help? Did the entire article violate copyright laws or was it only certain sections? If yes, how and which sections? Also is there any way I can recover the text of my article?

Thanks.

Best Rakshita Rakswami (talk) 07:36, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
  Alongside the Signpost's interviews with the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees candidates, the Signpost asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on. For the FDC candidates, this will include specific recommendations to the WMF on how to disburse over US$11 million in donors' funds to affiliate organizations, something which appears to have garnered little attention from the editing community at large so far.

• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
  In the continuing saga of User:Qworty's outing as author Robert Clark Young, several blogs and websites covered the now-banned user's anti-Pagan editing. In an article published on 22 May 2013, TechEye described Qworty's edits as a "reign of terror" and were pleased to find that he had not succeeded in removing several prominent Pagan biographies from the encyclopedia.

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
  The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
  This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.

• Featured content: Life of 2π
  Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?
  An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
  Second only to the technical track of Wikimania in terms of numbers, the Berlin Hackathon (2009–2012) provided those with an interest in the software that underpins Wikimedia wikis and supports its editors a place to gather, exchange ideas and learn new skills.

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

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

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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DC WikiSalon on June 6

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Thursday, June 6 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 12:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter We have completed our May backlog elimination drive. The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, BDD, and Miniapolis Sign up for the June blitz! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 04:52, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Have time on Saturday?

I'm sorry for the last-minute notice, but on Saturday, June 8, from 3 to 6 PM, Wikimedia DC and the Cato Institute are hosting a Legislative Data Meetup. We will discuss the work done so far by WikiProject U.S. Federal Government Legislative Data to put data from Congress onto Wikipedia, as well as what more needs to be done. If you have ideas you'd like to contribute, or if you're just curious and feel like meeting up with other Wikipedians, you are welcome to come! Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.

I hope to see you there!

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Harej (talk) 04:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2013

• From the editor: Signpost developments
  I am excited to announce that a Portuguese-language journal, Correio da Wikipédia has been launched by Vitorvicentevalente. It has just published its third edition, and I encourage readers who speak the language to read and contribute to its already-expansive coverage of the Portuguese Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.

• Featured content: A week of portraits
  Five articles, four lists, and thirteen images were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
  This is mostly a list of requests for comment believed to be active on 4 June 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC or watchlist notices.

• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
  On 31 May, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal and Community Advocacy team announced that the Wikivoyage logo would have to be replaced, because it has become the subject of a cease-and-desist letter from the World Trade Organization (WTO).

• In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia
  An article on TheNextWeb.com says that the Chinese Government has effectively blocked Wikipedia by cutting off access to the HTTP Secure (https) "workaround", almost completely cutting off access to those in China.

• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
  This week, we reflect on the anniversary of D-Day by storming the shores of Operation Normandy, a special initiative of WikiProject Military History.

• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'
  Last week, the Signpost reported on a feeling at the Amsterdam hackathon that Toolserver developers were coming round to the idea of migrating to Wikimedia Labs.

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

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

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • SemTechBiz
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
  • Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
• Development
  • Worked on globe coordinate editing
  • Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
  • EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, June 15!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 19:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13.
• An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems.
• Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
• Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode.
• The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates.
• A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org.
• Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges.
• Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713).

Future software changes

• A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon.
• A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
  Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.

• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
  Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
  In an article published by the Huffington Post's United Kingdom edition, writer Thomas Church asserts that the new VisualEditor will change history, literally. It says that Wikipedia's mark-up language has been to its advantage, as most people didn't bother trying to learn it

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
  I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.

• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
  Last week's most popular article list on the English Wikipedia was dominated by the massively popular TV series Game of Thrones, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode, The Rains of Castamere. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Nafisa Khan.

• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
  Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement have been suspended. Argentine History remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.

• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Computing. Started in October 2003, the project has grown to include 17 featured articles, 11 featured lists, 3 pieces of featured media, and 80 good articles.

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recover page deleted

Good Morning,

I would like to recover the text deleted in order to edit it. Do you think it would be possible? Im sorry to disturb, but Im new here and Im still learning which info I can or can't put in my article. Thanks so much!!

Have a great Friday! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathykrier (talk • contribs) 07:51, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Anne Delong ~ Amory (u • t • c) 14:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #62

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

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
  • And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
  • Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
  • EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20.
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11.
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. .
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references.
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages.
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18.
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features.
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector.
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836).
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123).
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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MediaWiki:Yourgender and MediaWiki:Prefs-help-gender

Please see sex and gender distinction. MediaWiki is unconcerned with its users' genitalia, but instead with the gender they identify as—and consequently the grammatical gender we refer to them with. --Fran Rogers (talk) 06:28, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

That may be the intention, but I maintain that giving users a binary option of male or female is specifically requesting sex, not gender. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script is released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code cleanup, and more page cleanups. If you want to see a full list of changes, go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Development page. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks.

Delivered at 13:14, 19 June 2013 (UTC) by EdwardsBot (talk), on behalf of WikiProject AFC

Join us this Sunday for the Great American Wiknic!

	Great American Wiknic DC at Meridian Hill Park
	You are invited to the Great American Wiknic DC at the James Buchanan Memorial at Meridian Hill Park. We would love to see you there, so sign up and bring something fun for the potluck! :)

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The Signpost: 19 June 2013

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
  Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.

• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
  The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.

• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics
  Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.

• WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
  This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.

• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
  With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.

• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
  Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: May engineering report published
  The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

• Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
  Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

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Wikidata weekly summary #63

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

• Discussions
  • Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
  • Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
  • Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
  • RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
  • RfC about personal names
• Events/Press
  • Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
• Development
  • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
  • Further work on input validation
  • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
  • Use Serializers for generating API results
  • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
  • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
  • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
  • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27.
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias.
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333).
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505).
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18.
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet.
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis.

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977).
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25.
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations.
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries.
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations.
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another.
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary.
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013.

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18:03, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

GOCE June/July 2013 events

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter We have completed our June blitz and are about to commence our July backlog elimination drive. The June/July 2013 events newsletter is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, BDD, and Miniapolis Sign up for the July drive! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 20:18, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
  With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.

• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
  The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.

• Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets
  A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.

• News and notes: Election results released
  Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.

• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
  This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
  This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.

• Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
  Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

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Wikidata weekly summary #64

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

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
• On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace.
• A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196).
• There was a short site outage on June 28.
• The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119).
• The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area.
• There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040).
• The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it.
• VisualEditor news:
  • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
  • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
  • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
  • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
  • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
  • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
  • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015).

Future software changes

• VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
• From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]).
• The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9.

Erratum

• Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added.

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2013

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2013
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q2 2013, the project has:

• 158 Featured Articles
• 56 Featured Lists
• 7 Featured Topics
• 6 Featured Pictures

• 43 A-Class Articles
• 589 Good Articles
• 9 Good Topics

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Content

• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• Feature: Featured Pictures and why the project should focus on obtaining more
• Interview: JDC808

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Project Navigation

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
  Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.

• Featured content: Queen of France
  Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• WikiProject report: Puppies!
  This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
  The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits

• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series
  The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.

• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
  The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.

• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
  Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

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Wikidata weekly summary #65

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

• Discussions
  • Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
  • RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
  • Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
  • One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
  • Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
  • Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
  • Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
• Development
  • Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
  • Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
  • Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
  • Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
  • Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
  • Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
  • Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
  • Lots of bugfixing
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, July 13!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 00:09, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-28

Latest [[<tvar|technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News</>|tech news]] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. [[<tvar|more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28</>|Translations]] are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
  • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed.
  • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
• Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287).
• Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners.

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
  tag (bug #8480).
• It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124).
• The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again.
• The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183).
• Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658.
• First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project.
• A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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18:28, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

You're Invited: Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian

File:SAAM facade.jpg American Art Museum

Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum You're invited to the Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon, part of a series of edit-a-thons organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to add and expand articles about American art and artists on Wikipedia. This event will include a catered lunch and special tours of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2013 Smithsonian American Art Museum Meet at G Street Lobby (9th St. & G St. NW, Washington, D.C.) Capacity is limited, so please sign up today! If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please remove your name from our distribution list. Message delivered by Dominic·t 23:50, 11 July 2013 (UTC).

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013

• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
  This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.

• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
  This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.

• Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere
  The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
  In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.

• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
  The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".

• Featured content: The week of the birds
  Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

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Wikidata weekly summary #66

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Tech News: 2013-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18.
• The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example).
• The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions.
• The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
• VisualEditor news:
  • According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
  • Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
  • Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
  • Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
  • Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
• The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.

Future software changes

• A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos.
• The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed.
• Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them.
• Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later.
• Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22.
• A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion).

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17:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
  This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
  The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
  Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.

• Featured content: Documents and sports
  Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
  The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

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Wikidata weekly summary #67

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

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Tech News: 2013-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25.
• A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs.
• VisualEditor news:
  • The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29.
  • A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
  • SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
  • Users can now edit <nowiki>...</nowiki> blocks (bug #47678).
  • When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text.
• Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
• A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.

Future software changes

• The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed.
• Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457).
• A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org.

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GOCE July 2013 news report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 30 people who have signed up for this drive so far, 18 have participated. If you have signed up for the drive but have not yet participated, it isn't too late. If you haven't signed up for the drive, sign up now! Progress report: Thus far we have reduced the number of May/June 2012 articles to just 124 articles, so we're on the right track. Unfortunately, for the first time in GOCE history, the number of articles in the backlog has actually gone up during this drive. While all participants are currently doing a fine job, we just don't have as many of them as we have had in the past. We have over 500 editors on our mailing list, but only 18 editors who have done a copy edit for the drive. If you're receiving this newsletter, it's because you have an interest in copy editing. Join the drive! Even if you only copy edit one article, it helps. Imagine how much progress we could make if everyone chipped in just one article. – Your drive coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
  The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
  This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.

• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
  Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Gleeless
  Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.

• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
  Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
  The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.

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Wikidata weekly summary #68

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

• Discussions
  • New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • upcoming: COSCUP
  • upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
  • There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
  • Picture of the week could use some more input
  • Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
  • Ranking of the search results has been improved
  • Worked on URL data type
  • Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
  • Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
  • Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
  • Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
  • Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
  • Made tests more reliable
  • Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
  • Worked on Time value formatter
  • Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Tech News: 2013-31

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

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1.
• Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24.
• Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools.
• The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon.
• It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon.
• The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now.
• Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. , ,
• Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438).
• A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
• VisualEditor news:
  • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29.
  • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24.
  • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages.
  • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
  • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
  • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
  • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
  One of the narratives I've heard a lot is that Wikipedia is unable to change, that it's too stagnant, too poorly resourced, too inherently resistant to change. I don't believe that at all.

• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview
  An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.

• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
  Somewhat predictably, the birth of a new heir to the House of Windsor on 22 July led the English-speaking world to suddenly embrace Monarchism. In honour of this occasion, the Traffic report will be assiduously employing British spelling and dating conventions. Cheers.

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
  This week, we visited the Turkish Wikipedia for an interview with VikiProje Siyaset (WikiProject Politics). The project began in April 2010 and has sustained a small but enthusiastic group of editors focusing on both the domestic politics of Turkey and international politics. The basics for article quality and importance ratings have been determined, but tracking this data has not yet become widespread on the Turkish Wikipedia. The project maintains a portal, a variety of resources, and a rotating selection of images to spruce up the project's page.

• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
  The ninth annual Wikimania conference will open in just over a week at the Jockey Club Auditorium, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania is for people worldwide who have an interest in Wikimedia Foundation projects. It features presentations and discussions on those projects, on free knowledge and content, and on related social and technical issues.

• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
  The case Race and politics was closed, while three other cases remain open.

• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
  Eight articles, five lists, seven pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

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Wikidata weekly summary #69

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
  • Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
  • The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
  • Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
  • Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
  • ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
  • Fix handling of '0' value in API response
  • Solved bugs related to copyright notice
  • Some minor UI speed improvements
  • EditEntity refactored
  • Test cases improved
  • Further work on URLs
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, August 24!

Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 03:50, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #70

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

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
  • Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
  • Many property proposals still need input!
• Events/Press
  • Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
  • Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
  • There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
  • Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
• Development
  • Changeops implemented for all Api modules
  • All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
  • Work on claim ordering started
  • Work on refactoring Api Tests
  • Bug Fixes!!
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea Party movement case
  Fourteen editors have been proposed for a six-month page ban in the Tea Party movement case. In the Infoboxes and Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds cases, the workshop and evidence phases have closed, and proposed decisions are scheduled to be posted.

• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard
  It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
  The opening days of the annual Wikimania, referred to as the "pre-conference", are not typically newsworthy. This changed dramatically when the Chapters Association council met on Thursday.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
  This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.

• Featured content: Mysterious case of the grand duchess
  The week's newest featured content includes...

• Discussion report: CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
  Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

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GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter We have completed our July backlog elimination drive. The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor. Sign up for the August blitz! To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:08, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
  About a thousand Wikimedians journeyed to Hong Kong this week for the annual Wikimania conference, the annual gathering of the Wikimedia movement. Wikimania, which has been held since 2005, serves as the principal physical meetup for Wikimedians around the world.

• In the media: Chinese censorship
  One major story that came out of Wikimania was Jimmy Wales' statements at the conference that he would prefer to have Wikipedia banned entirely in mainland China than censored as it is currently.

• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
  The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
  Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.

• Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
  Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
  

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes
  The Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case has closed, with a unanimous decision to desysop a Wikimedia Foundation employee and indefinitely ban another editor. The Tea Party movement case has stalled yet again, in the wake of a controversial proposal to ban 14 editors. A proposed decision in the Infoboxes case was scheduled to be posted on 14 August.

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Wikidata weekly summary #71

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
  • Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
  • Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
  • The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
  • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
  • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
  • Newest task forces: Physics task force
  • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
• Development
  • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
  • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
  • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
  • Started improving API and Special Page tests
  • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
  • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
  • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
  • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
  • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
• Open Tasks for You
  • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
  • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Are you free on Wednesday? Join us at the Wikimedia DC WikiSalon!

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.

The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill ^[talk] 11:25, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #72

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

• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Meet up with local Wikipedians on September 14!

Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!

For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill ^[talk] 18:42, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-34;

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

New features

• The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22.
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29.
• You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff.
• You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931)
• You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468)
• Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713)

Problems fixed

• There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
• Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
• There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077)

VisualEditor news

• The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit ^beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
• You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
• You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
• You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser.

Future

• Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites.
• Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications.
• Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta.
• Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis.
• The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned.

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19:49, 25 August 2013 (UTC)