User talk:Inkbug

Wikidata weekly summary #98
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 13:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
 * 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
 * Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
 * Development
 * Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
 * Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (61308)
 * Worked on an Apache redirect issue (54273)
 * Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (61446)
 * Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
 * Kept poking TimeParsers
 * Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
 * Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help develop the next summary here!

Tech News: 2014-09
 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 (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
 * The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114156/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/114169/]
 * The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).

VisualEditor news
 * You will soon be able to add and edit, and in the page settings menu. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57173] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57167] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57168]
 * You will soon be able to use the Ctrl +Alt +S or ⌘ +Opt +S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50897] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110434/]
 * You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42139] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112490/]

Future software changes
 * You will soon be able to use the tag again. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59798]
 * You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60132] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94698/]
 * Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55491][//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56311][//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93508/]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  10:17, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #99
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 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about defining lists
 * Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
 * Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
 * Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
 * Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
 * Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
 * Development
 * Made loading items a lot faster
 * Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
 * Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
 * Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
 * Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
 * Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
 * Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
 * Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
 * Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item