User talk:Rdicerb (WMF)/Archive 1

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 #151
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 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Sex and artists
 * VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
 * Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
 * New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
 * An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
 * The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
 * Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
 * Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
 * New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
 * There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
 * Development
 * Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
 * Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
 * Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
 * Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
 * Looked into improving suggestions
 * Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
 * Removed backwards compatibility from, to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
 * Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
 * Created a unit test framework for special pages
 * 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!
 * Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Tech News: 2015-14
 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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account.
 * You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki.
 * All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser.
 * You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly.
 * VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
 * VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias.
 * You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account.
 * You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles.
 * You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page.
 * VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more.

Meetings
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC).
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #152
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 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
 * The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
 * The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
 * Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
 * Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
 * A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
 * Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
 * Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
 * Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
 * Development
 * Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
 * Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
 * Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
 * Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
 * Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (T92831)
 * Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
 * 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!