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Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 20:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
 * Development
 * Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
 * Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
 * When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
 * Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
 * Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
 * Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
 * Work on entity usage tracking
 * Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
 * Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
 * Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
 * Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-44
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself.
 * There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly.
 * There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday.
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf5 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
 * VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData.
 * VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them.
 * VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit".
 * The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6.  

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Wikidata weekly summary #131
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 14:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
 * Wikidata II
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
 * Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
 * What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
 * Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
 * Random items without statements
 * Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
 * Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
 * Development
 * Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
 * HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
 * Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
 * Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
 * Work on fixing XML dumps
 * Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
 * Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
 * Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
 * Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
 * Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
 * Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-45
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference.
 * You can no longer use the  keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later.

Problems
 * There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday.
 * Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed.
 * HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf5 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
 * Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the  tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning#Page_status_indicators]
 * VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one.
 * The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes.
 * After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData]

Future changes
 * The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English.

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Wikidata weekly summary #132
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:04, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
 * Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
 * Did you know?
 * Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
 * Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
 * Development
 * Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
 * Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
 * Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
 * Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
 * Lots of bug fixes all over the place
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-46
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net.

File information cleanup
 * Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
 * You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
 * You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems
 * Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf7 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
 * You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions.
 * The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More".
 * The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs.

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Wikidata weekly summary #133
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:59, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
 * GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help make sure these items have labels in your language
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NATO code for grade
 * Development
 * Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
 * Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
 * Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
 * Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
 * Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
 * Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
 * Improved calendar model display
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-47
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf8 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
 * The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19.

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
 * The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
 * You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
 * You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
 * Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
 * You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC.

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Wikidata weekly summary #134
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
 * Building a periodic table using Wikidata
 * Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
 * The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
 * Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
 * Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
 * WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
 * VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
 * Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
 * Development
 * When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
 * Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
 * The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
 * Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
 * While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
 * More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
 * Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
 * Bug fixes
 * Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-48
<section begin="technews-2014-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator.

Problems
 * There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the  or   option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf9 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
 * You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options.
 * VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved.
 * You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window.
 * VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages.

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Wikidata weekly summary #135
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
 * Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
 * Picture this!
 * Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
 * Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
 * IRC office hour on Wednesday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
 * Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
 * VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
 * Development
 * Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
 * Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
 * Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
 * Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
 * Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
 * Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
 * Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix T74348
 * Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
 * JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
 * Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
 * Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
 * Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
 * Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
 * Input on Wikibase/Indexing
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #136
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * IRC office hour (log)
 * Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
 * Statements on properties are now live
 * Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
 * The Game has a new mode: alma mater
 * Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
 * Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
 * English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
 * Development
 * Started work on units
 * More work on evaluating options for querying
 * Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
 * Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
 * Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
 * Work on improved label lookup performance
 * Wrapping up work on usage tracking
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-50
<section begin="technews-2014-W50"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
 * You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf11 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar).
 * You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key.
 * It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better.
 * The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs.
 * (Lua) You can no longer use  to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix.

Future changes
 * Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate.

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Wikidata weekly summary #137
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications
 * Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia
 * past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
 * Development
 * More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
 * Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
 * Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
 * Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
 * Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
 * Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
 * Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-51
<section begin="technews-2014-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
 * You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
 * You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf12 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
 * You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,  or.
 * VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
 * The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.

Future changes
 * The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
 * You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #138
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Petr Matas
 * Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Welcome Freebase!
 * Freebase announcement
 * Wikidata announcement
 * Wikiproject
 * Primary sources tool
 * Heise
 * Venturebeat
 * Gigaom
 * Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
 * New tree of life based on Wikidata data
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
 * New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
 * Showcase items: Lion
 * Development
 * Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
 * ~=[,,_,,]:3
 * Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
 * Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
 * Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
 * Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
 * Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
 * Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
 * Finished tree of life
 * Some more work on support for units
 * Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
 * Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
 * The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-52
<section begin="technews-2014-W52"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private.

Software changes this week
 * There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6.

Future changes
 * The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations.
 * A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis.

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Tech News: 2015-01
<section begin="technews-2015-W01"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes
 * There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014
 * The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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Wikidata weekly summary #139
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
 * new RfC: CoI editing
 * Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
 * The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
 * wikidata4research4all
 * There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
 * Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
 * The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
 * Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
 * Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
 * Development
 * Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
 * Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Wikidata weekly summary #140
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
 * Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
 * We had a meetup with nine people:
 * set up WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
 * Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
 * For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
 * Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
 * Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
 * Development
 * The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
 * More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
 * Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
 * Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
 * Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
 * Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
 * Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
 * We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2015-03
<section begin="technews-2015-W03"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files.
 * You can now use the  magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe  in tables and templates. You can delete the template.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf14 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
 * A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a  (Sun) character. This is now fixed.
 * The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages.
 * The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor.
 * The  option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar.

Future changes
 * You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier.

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Wikidata weekly summary #141
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 21:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎
 * Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
 * Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
 * IRC office hour happened (log)
 * Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
 * MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The development plan has been updated and expanded
 * Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
 * Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and Test Wiki. An example is at Kitten on arbitrary page.
 * Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
 * Development
 * Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
 * Worked on redesign of header area
 * Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
 * Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
 * Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-04
<section begin="technews-2015-W04"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.
 * Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems
 * All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed.

Software changes this week
 * There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings.

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Wikidata weekly summary #142
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
 * Past: Meetup in Cambridge
 * Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
 * Wikidata - a year in numbers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
 * The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
 * Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
 * You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
 * Development
 * More work on header section redesign
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
 * Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
 * Implemented entity change subscription service
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-05
<section begin="technews-2015-W05"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis.

This week
 * There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings.

Future changes
 * You can join a project to improve WikiProjects.
 * The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #143
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:20, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: BlackBeast
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
 * Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
 * The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
 * Development
 * Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (T87096)
 * Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (T87764)
 * Further work on header section redesign (T75654)
 * Started redesign of statements section (T87316)
 * Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (T85105)
 * Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
 * Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
 * Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-06
<section begin="technews-2015-W06"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
 * The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site.
 * You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator.

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Wikidata weekly summary #144
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: BlackBeast
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
 * Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
 * Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
 * Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
 * Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
 * Mix'n'Match got a face lift
 * Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
 * RStats client for Wikidata
 * Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
 * Did you know?
 * Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
 * Development
 * Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
 * Mourned Titan (T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further work on header section redesign
 * Tweaks to the sitelink section
 * Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
 * Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
 * Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
 * Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (T76213)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-07
<section begin="technews-2015-W07"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You can now use  to transclude a section with its title.

Problems
 * MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later.
 * UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki.
 * All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
 * You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis.
 * You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license.
 * It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider.
 * You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times.
 * In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site.

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Wikidata weekly summary #145
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:25, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Europeana Tech
 * Wir lieben Freie Software
 * Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
 * New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
 * You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
 * Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
 * The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
 * Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
 * Development
 * <3
 * We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
 * We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
 * Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
 * Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
 * Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
 * Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
 * Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
 * Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
 * Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
 * Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
 * Fixed editing of qualifiers
 * Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!