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Thank you!
Thanks for the love! Also, which Rachel are you? Were you at Wikimania? Deryck C.Meta 14:23, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was at Wikimania! I often sat at the Community Advocacy/ Community Engagement Table, though I was often also out and about/walking and talking! - Rdicerb (WMF) (talk) 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #145
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) 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!

Tech News: 2015-08
 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 has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
 * On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki.
 * You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop.
 * In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates.
 * The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​

Meetings
 * The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page.
 * You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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Wikidata weekly summary #146
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 20:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
 * Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
 * ViziData
 * Update on data quality project
 * Update on structured data for Commons
 * Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
 * Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
 * Showcase items:Montblanc
 * Development
 * Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
 * Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
 * Worked on RDF mapping/export
 * Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
 * Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
 * Made the diff views for dates easier to read
 * Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
 * Continued work on header redesign
 * Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
 * Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Tech News: 2015-09
 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 new accounts are now global.
 * Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
 * It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger.
 * It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor.
 * Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed.
 * Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
 * Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12.

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Wikidata weekly summary #147
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 12:45, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
 * Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
 * Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
 * Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
 * Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
 * New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
 * There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
 * Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
 * Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
 * You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
 * Development
 * Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
 * Updated the json documentation
 * Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. 168632
 * Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
 * Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
 * Fix for T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
 * Final touches on new header design
 * Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
 * More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
 * Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
 * Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
 * 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: 2015-10
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it.
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
 * You can now hide banners if you don't have an account.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
 * Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs.
 * The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData.
 * The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #148
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 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfA: Haplology
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
 * upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help flesh out landing pages for partners
 * Update on the Wikidata query service progress
 * The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
 * Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
 * Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
 * Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
 * Development
 * Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
 * Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
 * Worked on updating the data model documentation
 * Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
 * Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
 * Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
 * Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
 * 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: 2015-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter.
 * VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
 * In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia.
 * The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs.
 * You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading.
 * You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools.
 * If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages.
 * You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator.

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Wikidata weekly summary #149
<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) 20:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Successful RfA: Haplology
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Pictures, reloaded
 * Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
 * Linkin mash
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Simple Wikidata graph generator
 * Please help test the next step for header redesign
 * Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
 * Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
 * Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
 * Query generator spreadsheet
 * Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
 * Development
 * Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
 * Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
 * Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
 * Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
 * Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
 * 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: 2015-12
<section begin="technews-2015-W12"/> 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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images.
 * You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary.
 * It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki.

Problems
 * Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
 * A puzzle piece icon (VisualEditor - Icon - Template-big.svg) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates.
 * You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.
 * You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.
 * The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts.

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Wikidata weekly summary #150
<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) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Editathon at MACBA
 * Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
 * We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
 * Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
 * There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
 * First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
 * DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
 * Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
 * Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
 * Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
 * Development
 * Fixed property suggestions on empty items
 * Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
 * Updated various documentation
 * Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
 * Polishing in the user interface
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #150
<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) 23:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Editathon at MACBA
 * Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
 * We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
 * Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
 * There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
 * First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
 * DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
 * Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
 * Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
 * Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
 * Development
 * Fixed property suggestions on empty items
 * Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
 * Updated various documentation
 * Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
 * Polishing in the user interface
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #150
<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) 00:44, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: Editathon at MACBA
 * Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
 * Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
 * Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
 * We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
 * Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
 * There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
 * First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
 * DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
 * Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
 * Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
 * Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
 * Development
 * Fixed property suggestions on empty items
 * Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
 * Updated various documentation
 * Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
 * Polishing in the user interface
 * 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: 2015-13
<section begin="technews-2015-W13"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week Meetings
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
 * The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page.
 * VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor.
 * When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it.
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system.

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