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Wikidata weekly summary #116
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 21:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A question from an intern
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
 * Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
 * Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
 * As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
 * Development
 * Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
 * Deployed entity suggester.
 * More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
 * Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
 * Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
 * Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
 * Fixed bugs
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-28
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates


 * We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
 * CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias.
 * It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis.
 * You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias.

VisualEditor news
 * Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster.
 * You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption.
 * When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus.
 * The reference tool that adds empty  tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like.
 * Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ.

Future software changes
 * Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL ) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
 * A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared.
 * If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the  tag (or a template).
 * Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly.
 * Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions.

Problems
 * Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue.
 * For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error.

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Wikidata weekly summary #117
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) 14:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Improving the FAQ
 * Should we link to restricted access databases?
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
 * We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
 * Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
 * Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
 * Development
 * Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
 * CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
 * Further progress on redirects
 * Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
 * Continued work on mockups for new user interface
 * Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-29
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
 * It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL ) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis.
 * You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
 * You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news
 * The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles.
 * The button to make images full size should now work correctly.
 * References will now be shown in the default font size again.

Future software changes
 * CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16.
 * The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example).
 * It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files.
 * Pages that use  more than once will soon show a warning. You can use   to hide it.
 * Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis.
 * Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory.
 * Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles.

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Wikidata weekly summary #118
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 23:13, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about removing person data
 * Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Main Page redesign suggestions
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
 * Development
 * Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
 * Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
 * Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
 * Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
 * Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * 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: 2014-30
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
 * CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date.
 * The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places.
 * Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions.
 * A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on [//tools.wmflabs.org/ Tool Labs].

VisualEditor news
 * Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome.
 * All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons.
 * You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target.
 * Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week.

Future software changes
 * It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow.
 * You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
 * An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode.
 * A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems
 * Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem.

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Wikidata weekly summary #119
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 22:47, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * User conduct policies RfC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
 * User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikisource
 * Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
 * Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
 * Development
 * Published the first JSON dumps
 * Finishing touches on badges support
 * Finishing touches on redirects
 * Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
 * Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
 * Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
 * The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
 * Worked on improving the code of the parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
 * 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: 2014-31
<section begin="technews-2014-W31"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
 * You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor.
 * The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit.
 * If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters.
 * You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation.

Future software changes
 * You will soon be able to filter [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1 Meta-Wiki's user rights log] by wiki and user.
 * Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Badges Wikidata's list].
 * It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace.

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Wikidata weekly summary #120
<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 23:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: Gabbe
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
 * Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: published in
 * Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
 * Development
 * Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
 * More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * More work on the monolingual datatype
 * Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
 * Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
 * 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: 2014-32
<section begin="technews-2014-W32"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates


 * Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar).
 * You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files.
 * You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files.
 * New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file.

VisualEditor news
 * You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor.
 * VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys.
 * Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week.
 * Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed.

Future software changes
 * You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits.
 * All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, [mailto:ts-admins@toolserver.org contact Toolserver administrators] before August 31.
 * Pages in the  namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines.

Problems
 * Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem.
 * Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed.

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Tech News: 2014-33
<section begin="technews-2014-W33"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes VisualEditor news
 * Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar).
 * Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one.
 * Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14.

Future software changes
 * Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser!
 * If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning.
 * You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension.
 * An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion).

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Wikidata weekly summary #121
<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) 23:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
 * Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
 * Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
 * Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
 * First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
 * Userboxes
 * Did you know?
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
 * Development
 * Attended Wikimania and Socrates
 * Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
 * Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
 * 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 #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114

<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 13:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
 * Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
 * New task forces: WikiProject Movies
 * Development
 * Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
 * Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
 * Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
 * We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
 * Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
 * Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
 * 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

Tech News: 2014-34
<section begin="technews-2014-W34"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
 * There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Superprotect_rights]
 * You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page.
 * You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools.
 * You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata
 * After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews.
 * After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote.

Problems
 * There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #123
<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) 20:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
 * "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new Main page will go live early next week! for more details and to leave any last comments
 * It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
 * Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
 * Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
 * Development
 * Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
 * Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
 * More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
 * 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: 2014-35
<section begin="technews-2014-W35"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news
 * There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed.
 * You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages.
 * If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
 * After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page.

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Wikidata weekly summary #124
<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 00:18, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: OpenSym
 * upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New Main Page and other new features
 * Breaking changes for gadgets
 * Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
 * Development
 * Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
 * Added a new “item-redirect” permission
 * Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
 * DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
 * Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
 * Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
 * Attended OpenSym
 * 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: 2014-36
<section begin="technews-2014-W36"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata.
 * You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the  keyword in your search.
 * A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog".
 * If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/status#2014-08-monthly]

VisualEditor news
 * You can no longer delete required fields in templates.
 * We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next.
 * VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook.
 * We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X).
 * You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
 * There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in  at freenode.
 * You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too.
 * You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
 * You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site.

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Tech News: 2014-37
<section begin="technews-2014-W37"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news
 * From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
 * You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog.
 * You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs.

Problems
 * There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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Wikidata weekly summary #125
<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 18:42, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histropedia Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia]
 * [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/08/outreach-program-for-women-at-wikidata Wikidata Outreach: What happened?]
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The new main page can now be translated.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio, FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
 * Development
 * Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
 * Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
 * Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
 * Worked more on enabling statements on properties
 * Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
 * First pokes at usage tracking
 * Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
 * 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: 2014-38
<section begin="technews-2014-W38"/> 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 change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the  CSS class.
 * There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names.
 * New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited.

Problems
 * There was a problem with loading images on September 10.

VisualEditor news
 * If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number.
 * The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet.
 * You can now use help buttons in the "" menu to see what the options are for.

Future software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki ( 1.24wmf21 ) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
 * These changes are coming with the new version:
 * If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Grade_C]

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Tech News: 2014-39
<section begin="technews-2014-W39"/> 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 test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them.

Problems
 * There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
 * Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
 * There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.24wmf22 ) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
 * If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.
 * In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender.
 * The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing.
 * The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes.
 * There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for  and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough.
 * In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening.

Future site changes
 * You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24.  

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Tech News: 2014-40
<section begin="technews-2014-W40"/> 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
 * On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files.
 * There are now many more translations for language names.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf1 ) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
 * Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them.
 * You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added.
 * If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it.
 * The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats.

Future changes
 * You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
 * JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed.

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Wikidata weekly summary #126
<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) 12:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * A new blocking policy has been accepted.
 * Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
 * RfC: redirect vs. deletion
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
 * upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
 * WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
 * Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
 * Development
 * Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
 * Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (66425)
 * Fixed broken xml api output (70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
 * Finished performance improvements for badges
 * Worked on entity usage tracking
 * Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
 * Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
 * Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
 * Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
 * Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
 * Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment
 * Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite 70606)
 * Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
 * 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