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Tech News: 2014-14
 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 (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
 * Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
 * CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121305/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121305/]

VisualEditor news
 * Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51454] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52004]
 * The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61959]
 * New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58314]
 * VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62024]

Future software changes  Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change.
 * CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
 * You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85446/]
 * Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115640/]

Wikidata weekly summary #104
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 23:42, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed: Merge project chats
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
 * Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
 * Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
 * Newest task forces: France task force, US legislation task force
 * Development
 * Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (62425)
 * UI for simple query SpecialPage (55593)
 * minor fixes in the UI
 * UI for claims on property pages
 * worked on review of property suggester (review)
 * still looking for a working student/intern
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-15
 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 (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
 * Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
 * CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [//https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123246/]

Future software changes  Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60333] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112323/]
 * All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8.
 * The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62970] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62970]
 * You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120738/]
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
 * You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language.

Wikidata weekly summary #105
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 20:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Quality is measurable
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
 * Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
 * A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
 * Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
 * Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
 * Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
 * Development
 * Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
 * Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
 * Finishing touches for Statements on properties
 * Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
 * Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
 * Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
 * Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
 * Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
 * Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
 * Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
 * Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
 * Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
 * Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
 * MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome.  [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125031/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125032/]
 * Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63512]

VisualEditor news
 * You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click.
 * The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
 * The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50255] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123503/]

Future software changes  Problems
 * The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/]
 * Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/104182]
 * You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53588] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62948] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123638/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120343/]
 * Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981]
 * You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57473] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120334/]
 * The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63582] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125370/]
 * An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion).
 * Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Heartbleed]

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Wikidata weekly summary #106
<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 22:36, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Sources will be called references because of a discussion
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * List of items without images but possibly free images available
 * Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
 * Development
 * Lots of small little cleanups.
 * Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
 * Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-17
<section begin="technews-2014-W17"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. <section begin="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Tech News updates
 * You can now subscribe to an [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feedformat=atom Atom] or [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=technews&feedformat=rss RSS] feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the [//en.planet.wikimedia.org/ English Planet Wikimedia] every Monday.
 * 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 (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
 * CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126671/] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126806/]
 * Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63206] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126834/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64002] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126729/]
 * The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster.
 * You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52414] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118218/]
 * VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53477] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125233/]
 * You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125774/] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63841] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125538/]

Future software changes <section end="tech-newsletter-software-news"/> Problems
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125033/]
 * Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class . This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43179] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115095/]
 * The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52342] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63576] [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52757]
 * You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116482/]
 * You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45258] [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120397/]
 * It is now proposed to replace [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla], [//gerrit.wikimedia.org Gerrit] and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org.
 * An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion).
 * For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
 * There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63915]

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Wikidata weekly summary #107
<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 20:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over property creation guidelines
 * Open RfA: JurgenNL
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
 * Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
 * In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
 * Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
 * Development
 * Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
 * We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
 * Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
 * Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
 * Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
 * Worked more on making error messages localizable
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-18
<section begin="technews-2014-W18"/> 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 (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
 * You can now use interwiki prefix  to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons.

VisualEditor news
 * You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor.
 * VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken  pages (and similar) were fixed last week.
 * VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes
 * CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome.
 * The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations.
 * CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings.
 * You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome.

Problems
 * For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load.
 * On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move.

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Wikidata weekly summary #108
<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) 18:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
 * ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
 * upcoming: Data Science Day
 * upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
 * Development
 * Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
 * Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
 * Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
 * Started work on monolingual text datatype
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-19
<section begin="technews-2014-W19"/> 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 (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
 * The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org.
 * It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool.

VisualEditor news
 * External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.
 * The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete.
 * You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones.
 * There is a new type for TemplateData parameters:  for file names.
 * Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users.
 * You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language.

Future software changes
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome.
 * You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
 * If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself.

Problems
 * For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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Wikidata weekly summary #109
<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 23:01, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * RfC: Developer user group
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
 * Development
 * Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
 * More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
 * Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
 * Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (55347)
 * Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (63309)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-20
<section begin="technews-2014-W20"/> 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 (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news
 * A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis.
 * Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly.

Future software changes
 * It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently.
 * You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API.
 * You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with.
 * The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work.
 * The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded.
 * MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
 * An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel <tt>#wikimedia-office</tt> on freenode (time conversion).
 * Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets [ that link to the Toolserver] to point to Tool Labs instead.

Problems
 * There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error.

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Wikidata weekly summary #110
<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 21:25, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
 * Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
 * upcoming: SMWCon
 * upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
 * Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
 * The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
 * The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest task forces: WikiProject Mathematics
 * Development
 * We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
 * Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
 * Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
 * Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
 * Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
 * Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
 * Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
 * Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
 * Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
 * Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
 * Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (64741)
 * More testing on simple queries
 * Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-21
<section begin="technews-2014-W21"/> 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 is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
 * The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work.
 * MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome.
 * VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys.
 * VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like  and not just.
 * VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it.
 * VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit.
 * The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor.

Future software changes
 * User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences.

Problems
 * For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem.

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Wikidata weekly summary #110
<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 16:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion about Draft articles
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata office hour log
 * Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
 * Play the Wikidata Game
 * Development
 * jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
 * More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
 * Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
 * Continued working on monolingual text data type
 * Continued making messages easier to understand
 * Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-22
<section begin="technews-2014-W22"/> 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 (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
 * MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

'''VisualEditor news
 * VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them.
 * A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the  namespace was fixed last week.
 * VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled.
 * It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed.
 * VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names.

Future software changes
 * Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade.
 * It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool.
 * Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax  will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear.
 * You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki.

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Wikidata weekly summary #111
<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 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
 * Wikidata:Tours
 * RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Slides from WikiConference USA
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
 * Development
 * More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
 * More work on monolingual text datatype
 * Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like 65398
 * Made progress on globe precision issues (65535 and 64887)
 * Cleaned up installation instructions
 * Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-23
<section begin="technews-2014-W23"/> 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 (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
 * CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30.

VisualEditor news
 * Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target.
 * The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor.
 * VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons.
 * There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters:  for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format.

Future software changes
 * MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
 * You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist.
 * The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on [ Special:Search].
 * You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot).

Problems Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2014-W23"/> 08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error.

Wikidata weekly summary #112
<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 23:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
 * Development
 * Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
 * thePHPcc thinghy
 * Released DataValues Time 0.6
 * Add time support to QueryEngine
 * Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
 * Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
 * Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
 * Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
 * Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
 * Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * 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: 2014-24
<section begin="technews-2014-W24"/> 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 (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
 * You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedtour&filter=&action=translate translate it] and ask in [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org Bugzilla].

VisualEditor news
 * You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor.
 * The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content.
 * You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor.

Future software changes
 * MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome.
 * You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10.
 * On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system.
 * You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly.
 * Templates containing  or   tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching.
 * You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it.
 * Hovercards will no longer flicker.

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Wikidata weekly summary #113
<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 22:17, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
 * Discussion: Delete as a new user group
 * RfC: Refining "part of"
 * Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
 * Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
 * Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
 * Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
 * The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
 * Newest task forces: Sports task forces
 * Development
 * Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
 * Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
 * Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
 * Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
 * Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
 * More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
 * Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
 * Enabled data access for Wikiquote
 * 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: 2014-25
<section begin="technews-2014-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Reminder
 * You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
 * You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news
 * You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu.
 * When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference.
 * You can now add and edit  and   in the page settings menu.
 * The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct.

Future software changes
 * Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome.
 * You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time.
 * You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis.
 * It will soon be possible to globally rename global (<abbr title="Single User Login">SUL ) users.
 * Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17.
 * The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to.
 * An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
 * You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department.

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