soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards: MisterSynergy (nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and Tobias1984 (nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
You can nominate projects for the WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
During the summer, WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [২]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
Sweden report: Open cultural heritage; More libraries in Africa on Wikidata; Global MIL Week 2019 Feature Conference; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Wiki Loves Monuments
UK report: Oxford, Khalili Collections and Endangered Archives
USA report: Hispanic Heritage and Disability Awareness Month
Special story: Help the Movement Learn about Content Campaigns & Supporting newcomers in Wikidata training courses!
Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980
Tool of the week
ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
Other noteworthy stuff
We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
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 use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [৩]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [৪]
In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [৫]
Problems
There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [৬]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [৭]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.
The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (T235540).
You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to this file
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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [৮][৯]
You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [১০][১১]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ২৯ অক্টোবর. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ৩০ অক্টোবর. It will be on all wikis from ৩১ অক্টোবর (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on ৩০ অক্টোবর at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [১২]
Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Happy birthday, Wikidata!
Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda
SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
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
At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [১৩]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [১৪]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
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
MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
Expanding to more wikis: the team is preparing to deploy Growth features to Ukrainian and Hungarian Wikipedias. Wikis that already have the features are Czech, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Basque Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
Mentor training: we tried out our first training for mentors with the Czech community, so that experienced users can build skills that help them retain newcomers.
Mockup of guidance while doing a suggested edit, using the help panel
The help panel was first deployed to newcomers in January 2019, and we have now finished analyzing data to determine its impact. A brief summary is below, and more in-depth information can be found here (in English).
In summary, although we have seen a good amount of usage of the help panel, the help panel has not shown an increase in activation (whether a user makes their first edit) or retention (whether a user returns to edit again).
This is a disappointing result, and our team has discussed potential reasons for the result and ideas for the future. Although we have many ideas for how to improve the help panel, we have decided to keep our attention on the newcomer homepage and newcomer tasks projects for the coming months.
We'll be using the help panel as part of the newcomer tasks project: using it to guide newcomers while they complete suggested edits.
The first version of the newcomer tasks workflow (V1.0) will be deployed in the next weeks on our 4 priority wikis. This version will suggest articles to edit based on maintenance templates. In this first version, we expect many newcomers to initiate the workflow, but not many to select articles to edit or complete edits. We expect future versions of the feature to increase those behaviors.
We're excited about this project because the majority of newcomers visit their newcomer homepage, and this will be the first element of the homepage that clearly asks the newcomer to start editing.
These are the next two versions of the feature, which are already being planned:
V1.1 (topic matching): will allow newcomers to choose topics of interest (such as Art, Music, Sports, or Technology) to personalize their suggestions. After evaluating several approaches, we have decided to use a new ORES model built by the WMF Scoring team. The model will automatically identify the topic area of each article. We expect this to increase how often newcomers select articles to edit.
V1.2 (guidance): once newcomers arrive on an article to edit, we will use the help panel to provide guidance about how to complete the editing task. We expect this to increase how many newcomers actually complete productive edits.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the centralauth database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [১৫]
Changes later this week
You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [১৭]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [১৮]
Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
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
Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [১৯]
The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [২০]
overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)
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
Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [২১]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [২২]
Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [২৩]
Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [২৪]
Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [২৫]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [২৬]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [২৭]
The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [২৮]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.
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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [২৯]
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are শুধুমাত্র স্বয়ংনিশ্চিতকৃত ব্যবহারকারীদের জন্য and শুধুমাত্র প্রশাসকদের জন্য অনুমোদিত. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [৩১]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).
Future changes
Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [৩২]
You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [৩৩]
Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team
Tool of the week
The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [৩৪]
The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [৩৫]
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [৩৬]
You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [৩৭][৩৮]
Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [৩৯]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.
VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.
Suggested edits by type of edit. Graph captions (top to bottom): ■ Copyedits ■ Add links ■ Expand article ■ Add reference ■ Advanced edits
About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.
The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".
On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.
Prototype of how the help panel will "peek" from the bottom of the page to offer guidance on mobile.
Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.
Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.
Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.
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
There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [৪০]
Problems
There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [৪১]
Changes later this week
The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [৪২]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
Sweden report: FindingGLAMs Challenge; Art by Edvard Munch from the Thiel Gallery; More European archives on Wikidata; OpenGLAM now! – watch the presentations; Wikipedia in Libraries
Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.
Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
সমস্যা
Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [৪৫]
Changes later this week
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [৪৬]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [৪৭]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [৪৮]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from ৩ মার্চ. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from ৪ মার্চ. It will be on all wikis from ৫ মার্চ (calendar).
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [৫০]
Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
Fixing various production errors
Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)
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
There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [৫১][৫২][৫৩]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [৫৪]
Indonesia report: Proposing collaboration with museums in Bali; First Wikisource training in the region
Netherlands report: Students write articles about Media artists, Public Domain Day 2020, Wiki Goes Caribbean, WikiFridays at Ihlia - Wikimedia Nederland in January & February 2020
Norway report: Wikipedia editing workshop with the Norwegian Network for Museums
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
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
There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [৫৫]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [৫৬][৫৭]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [৫৮][৫৯]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [৬১]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [৬২]
Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [৬৩]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [৬৪]
Indonesia report: Volunteers' meet-up; Wiki Cinta Budaya 2020 structured data edit-a-thon
Ireland report: Video tutorials; Celtic Knot Conference 2020
Kosovo report: WoALUG and NGO Germin call Albanian Diaspora to contribute to Wikipedia
Netherlands report: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen contributes to Wikimedia Commons again; Student research on GLAM-Wiki at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Serbia report: March Highlights - Everything is postponed
Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Wikipedia in libraries; Art from the Thiel Gallery Collections; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete
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 use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [৬৫]
There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [৬৯][৭০][৭১]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [৭২]
The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.
COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube
Tool of the week
Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
create design system components to continue improving consistency
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [৭৩]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [৭৪]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [৭৫]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
Tool of the week
zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube
Tool of the week
ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [৭৭]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [৭৮]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [৭৯]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).
Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable
Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy
France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources
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
Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [৮০]
Problems
Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [৮১]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [৮২][৮৩]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [৮৪]
Sketch of an idea for a structured workflow for adding links to an article. The goal is to help newcomers edit at high volume.
We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.
In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.
Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.
In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.
Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.
We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.
In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.
We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.
Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!
Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.
In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
In April, we completed an A/B test of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test. See the full results here.
We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube
Tool of the week
WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.
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
If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [৮৫][৮৬]
Problems
There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [৮৭]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [৮৮][৮৯]
Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [৯১]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [৯২]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [৯৩]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).
Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook
Tool of the week
If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda
The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube
Tool of the week
wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
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
There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [৯৪]
Problems
There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [৯৫][৯৬][৯৭]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [৯৮]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [৯৯]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).
Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, June 12-14: online Wikidata workshop and hackathon in German. Don't forget to register to get access to attendees information.
Upcoming: Video: Live Wikidata editing #9: Youtube, Facebook
Part 2 - The residency at the Bodleian Libraries - YouTube
Part 3 - The Astrolabe Explorer & other datasets - YouTube
Tool of the week
QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool.
New page Subsetting under WikiProject Schemas for documenting how to define, construct, manage and maintain subsets of Wikidata.
MyCroft, the open digital personal assistant now has a Wikidata skill to answer questions about current and historic facts & information about a person.
Do you know a Wikidata/Wikibase community member who has accomplished something new or has been inspiring in the last year? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate someone in the 2020 Community Spotlight survey.
Wikidata Bridge: Made a number of technical improvements to wrap up the work in the first version.
Reference Hunt: Making final technical improvements and are now running the process to find references on the whole of Wikidata (as opposed to the initial small subset for testing). Once that's done we'll release them as a dump.
Easier access to data for programmers: Researching and interviewing ways to improve the APIs in preparation for working on them.
Query builder: Working on defining the first version and creating mockups based on the feedback we received.
Use modern TypeScript syntax (3.2 -> 3.9) (phab:T253211)
More technical documentation for Federated Properties (phab:T252991) & preparing for the next steps
Convert some properties to external identifiers (phab:T253722)
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
Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [১০০]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [১০১]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [১০২][১০৩]
Changes later this week
You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [১০৪]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [১০৫]
Netherlands report: Analysis of Dutch GLAM-Wiki projects in relation to the Dutch Digital Heritage Reference Architecture, Content donation from Utrecht Archives, Detecting Wikipedia articles strongly based on single library collections and Collection highlights of the KB
Sweden report: Free music on Wikipedia; NHB webinars; Wikipedia in libraries – Projekt HBTQI
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Program for Cooperative Cataloging's upcoming Wikidata pilot, June 16. Agenda
Part 1 - Meet Ewan, WiR at the Uni' of Edinburgh - YouTube
Part 2 - the Witch Hunts projects & Wikidata - YouTube
Part 3 - Why Wikidata is important for education - YouTube
Tool of the week
Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones.
Collecting a lot of feedback and doing research around how to improve our APIs to start making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
Finalized the initial feature list for the query builder and working on designs and prototypes for testing
Doing user research on the Merge gadget to prepare for making it part of the proper code-base so that other Wikibase instances also benefit from easier merging
Federated Properties: continued working on the first version of Federation that will make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation
Start of a new project (Wikibase Decoupling & Extension Registration) in order to clean up our codebase a bit and make it easier to extend with new features in the future
More work on the design system to have a set of unified components for Wikidata that will make it easier to develop new features in the future because we don't have to rewrite components that are used in a lot of places
Some MediaWiki skin changes meant broken edit links on Wikipedia and co. Fixed now. (phabricator:T252800)
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
Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.
Problems
There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [১০৬]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [১০৭]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [১০৮]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [১০৯]
Upcoming domain name migration on the Wikimedia Toolforge implies that OpenRefine users need to update their Wikidata reconciliation service to the new endpoint which will be available by default in the upcoming release of OpenRefine (3.4). phab:T254172
Wikirecords - proposal for a Wikibase-based sister-project
Apologies for both of the problematic queries ("MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship" in Weekly Summary #419 and "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in Weekly Summary #420). The "MWAPI searches in wikidata about people described as slave traders by citizenship” in #419 lists any people with the word "slave" in a label, description or alias, among them several people who are not slave traders. The "Monuments named after/commemorating/depicting slave traders” in #420 incorrectly linked this query for enslaved people instead of this query for slavetraders.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [১১০]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [১১১]
Changes later this week
The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [১১২]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [১১৩]
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Merrilee Proffitt, Chris Cyr, and Rob Fernandez on a project to surface library holdings to indicate possible notability for persons, June 30th. Agenda
It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
More work on consistency of user interface components
Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [১১৪]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [১১৫]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.
Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.
Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [১১৬]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [১১৭]
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
More work on the consistent design system
More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)
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
Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [১১৮]
Problems
Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [১১৯][১২০]
Changes later this week
Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [১২১]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).
Future changes
Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [১২২][১২৩][১২৪][১২৫]
Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) FacebookYouTube
Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 FacebookYouTube
Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
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
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.
Problems
There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [১২৬]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [১২৭]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [১২৮]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).
Future changes
There is a মুদ্রণযোগ্য সংস্করণ link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [১২৯]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [১৩০]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck উত্তরাধিকার ভেক্টর ব্যবহার করুন in your local or global preferences in section পছন্দ এড়িয়ে যান. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [১৩১][১৩২]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [১৩৩]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [১৩৪]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July. Agenda
Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st. Notes of the discussions
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1 FacebookYouTube
Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (En, Fr)
Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (En, Fr)
Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese). YouTube
Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata. YouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) FacebookYouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 FacebookYouTube
Tool of the week
We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.
Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing
SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
a graph of MPs and parties in the Swedish Parliament and with whom they worked together with to create motions 2018 SPOILER: >95% is just with people in the same party
The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [১৩৫]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [১৩৬]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "উত্তরাধিকার ভেক্টর ব্যবহার করুন" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [১৩৭]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [১৩৮]
Changes later this week
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [১৩৯]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [১৪০]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [১৪১]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - QuickStatements and Distributed Wikidata games Facebook, YouTube
Video: Collaboration, contribution and use of Wikidata and Wikipedia by academic libraries (in Greek). YouTube
Librarians work to broaden Vanderbilt’s research reputation with Wikidata tools. "To speed up the creation of metadata about faculty and their publications, Steven Baskauf, data science and data curation specialist for libraries, developed “VanderBot,” a set of scripts that can read and write to Wikidata, greatly improving the efficiency by which Vanderbilt’s faculty are discoverable through Wikidata".
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
FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [১৪২]
Problems
The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [১৪৩]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [১৪৪][১৪৫]
Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube
Tool of the week
Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)
Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)
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
If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [১৪৬]
The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [১৪৭]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [১৪৮][১৪৯]
Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 (also on YouTube)
Video: How to add missing descriptions to Wikidata using QuickStatments tool (in Arabic) - YouTube
Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #16 Facebook, YouTube
Video: Introduction to Wikidata (in Malayalam) - YouTube
Video: Wikidata editing basics (in Chinese) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.
e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]
Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 1 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, September 2nd at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT). Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #18 Facebook, YouTube, September 5 at 19.00 UTC
Upcoming: Onam label-a-thon (September 1st and 2nd): Online label-a-thon to improve Wikidata items related to Kerala and Malayalam on this Onam holidays.
Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [১৫০][১৫১]
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ০৯:৪৯, ৩ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২০ (ইউটিসি)
This feature uses the help panel to explain what to do after selecting a suggested edit. For instance, if a newcomer selects a copyedit task, they are guided on what sorts of errors to look for. They can see examples of how to rewrite the text. You can try this feature on test.wikipedia.org. First enable the homepage and the help panel in your preferences there.
Since we launched "Guidance", the data we collected show good results (see image). Now, we see more users completing suggested edits than before Guidance was deployed.
Design concept for the "add a link" structured task
Structured tasks is a project that aims to break down editing workflows into a series of steps. We hope newcomers can accomplish these tasks easily.
In the previous newsletter, we asked for feedback from community members on the idea. We had a good discussion in six languages with 35 community members (summary here). We have now posted new design mockups. We hope community members can check the mockups out and react to them (in any language). They are posted along with some of the main questions we are thinking about as we continue to refine our plans.
We are currently working on Variants C and D (adjacent image) of the homepage. The goal is to increase the number of newcomers who start the newcomer tasks workflow. This is the team's main project at the moment.
We've made it easier to hide the help panel when not needed. [১৫২]
The welcome survey has a new question for people who created their account: language skills. The goal is to find out how many newcomers know multiple languages, so that we can learn whether it is a good idea to integrate Content Translation as a newcomer task. To make room for this question, we removed one that is not being used. [১৫৩]
We continue to engage with more communities. We recently deployed the Growth features to Persian, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias. Learn more about getting the features.
If your community is having a remote event, and you are interested in hearing from the Growth team, please contact us! We have already participated to two community events online:
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on Listeria, a tool that uses SPARQL queries to define a list, and provides a bot that will update a wiki page containing that list if the results of that SPARQL query change, all based on Wikidata, 08 September. Agenda
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 8 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #19 Facebook, YouTube, September 10
Added Wikidata support to Japanese Wikivoyage. phab:T261451
Investigating the nature of our training outliers to improve the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item.
Working on error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an item. phab:T260869
Completed various investigations to make an informed decision on the output format of WikibaseManifest files (automated configuration detection for toolbuilders) phab:T261285
Completed various bug fixes and wrap-up tasks to conclude the major engineering work on the Federated Properties project
More work on Item Quality Scoring and Federated Properties
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [১৫৪]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [১৫৫]
Future changes
The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [১৫৬]
The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [১৫৭][১৫৮]
Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.
Estonia report: Virtual exhibition about Polish-Estonian relations. Rephotography and cultural heritage
Germany report: KulTour in Swabia and 8000 documents new online
India report: Utilising Occasion for Content donation: A story
Netherlands report: WMIN & WMNL collaboration & Japanese propaganda films
Serbia report: Enriching Wiki projects in different ways
Sweden report: Free music and new recordings of songs in the public domain; Autumn in the libraries; Yes, you can hack the heritage this year – online!
Uganda report: Participating in the African Librarians Week (24-30 May 2020)
"Our admiration for Wikidata and for the people who work with it knows no bounds. Having a single source of well modelled, massively interlinked, well managed data that anyone can query at the press of a button is a real thing of wonder." - says the UK Parliament data team
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
WikiMap, a tool by User:DB111 that maps geocoded images from Commons and Wikipedia articles, now supports Wikidata items as well (Q99232292)
Wikidata QID's are approaching 9 digits. Now is the time to fix any code or schemas that assume that Q numbers are smaller than 9 characters.
Fixing an error that sometimes causes Wikidata UI to report 2 error messages when saving a sitelink in an Item instead of just one. (phabricator:T260869)
Development of version one of Federated Properties has concluded! Expect an announcement with timing of the release of this feature soon. Wikibase users who want an early look at the feature are invited to reach out to participate in the pre-release testing round.
Development of the WikibaseManifest extension has continued into its second sprint; we focused on determining a product specification for the Manifest output.
Finishing a draft documentation for a REST API to get it ready for a feedback round before implementation.
Finished improvements to the automated scoring of the quality of Items with ORES. Still need to retrain ORES and deploy the changes before the scores are actually different though.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [১৫৯][১৬০]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25
Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
Tool of the week
copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest
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
There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [১৬১][১৬২]
Changes later this week
The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [১৬৩]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] have published a series of six videos "discussions with professionals in order to discuss projects, issues, progress of Wikidata, Wikibase and bibliographic data in the field of libraries." Currently available as a playlist on YouTube under CC-By (Wikimedia Commons upload soon), with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French (Arabic and Chinese coming soon). The production was made by the IFLA Wikidata Working Group and funded by a WikiCite grant.
The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous formuntil September 30th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
Como is a new Android app, that uses Wikidata lexemes and senses to create a word-guessing game. It let's players create new senses and tests them on other players to finally save them in Wikidata. The app is developed as part of a BA thesis, to determine if this concept is useful to create more lexicographical data, and testers would be very welcome.
A long-standing bug has been fixed (T217144) where Items and Lexemes created via OAuth would not be added to the user’s watchlist even if the user had the আমার তৈরি করা পাতাসমূহ আমার নজরতালিকায় যোগ করো setting enabled. (The আমার সম্পাদনাগুলো আমার নজরতালিকায় যোগ কর setting was probably likewise ineffective, but this was not tested specifically.) Affected tools include QuickStatements, Mix'n'Match, and Wikidata Lexeme Forms; users of these and other tools may see more pages being added to their watchlists now. (This only applies to new edits and page creations; previously created or edited pages will not be automatically added to the watchlist retroactively.)
Working on the basic building blocks of the Query Builder towards making it possible to create the first very simple query with it
Talking to people about comparing Wikidata's data against other databases and flagging mismatches
Fixing an issue with Item creations via the API by blocked users leading to skipped entity IDs (phab:T232620)
Fixed an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
Finishing the draft of the REST API spec to get it ready for feedback
WikibaseManifest: created a separate key for local entities and decided what we do about non-local entity sources based on tool-builder feedback (phab:T263527) and specifying the API in OpenApi format (phab:T262919)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [১৬৫]
Problems
Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [১৬৬]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).
Future changes
You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [১৬৭]
You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.
Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
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
There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [১৬৮]
Problems
There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [১৬৯]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [১৭০]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [১৭১]
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [১৭২]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [১৭৩][১৭৪][১৭৫]
Changes later this week
Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [১৭৬][১৭৭]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.
France report: AAF training course; Workshops in Strasbourg; European Heritage Days: Rennes; Wiki Loves Monuments
Germany report: Ahoy! Wikipedians set sail to document the reality of modern seafaring
Indonesia report: New GLAM partnerships on data donation; Commons structured data edit-a-thon
Norway report: Students taking on GLAM Wiki women in red
Sweden report: Musikverket: more folk music and photos; Hack for Heritage 2020; Wiki Loves Monuments; Wikipedia in the libraries; Digital Book Fair on Wikipedia
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [১৭৯]
In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [১৮০]
Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.
Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
Tool of the week
WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [১৮১]
Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [১৮২]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [১৮৩]
There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "পুনর্বহালকৃত" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [১৮৪]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [১৮৫]
Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage.
We hope they will increase the number of users using suggested edits.
They both make suggested edits the clear place where newcomers should get started on the page.
They have some differences in their workflows, because we want to test which design is better.
We deployed these variants on October 19; half of newcomers get each variant.
After about 5 weeks, we will analyze the data from the tests.
The goal is to determine which variant is helping more newcomers to make more suggested edits.
We will identify the better variant and then use it with all newcomers.
As we discussed in previous newsletters, the team is working on our first "structured task": the "add a link" task.
After community discussion on design ideas, we ran user tests on the mobile designs.
We decided on the design concept we want to use moving forward: Concept A.
We're now engineering the backend for this feature.
Next, we will be running user tests for desktop designs.
We recently deployed the Growth features to Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish Wikipedias. 18 wikis now have Growth features. Learn more about getting the features.
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Recent changes
You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [১৮৬]
There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g.{{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [১৮৭]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [১৮৮]
The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [১৮৯]
Future changes
A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [১৯০]
In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.
Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC
Tool of the week
Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)
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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [১৯১]
From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [১৯২][১৯৩]
Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
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Recent changes
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [১৯৪][১৯৫]
Changes later this week
If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [১৯৬]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).
Future changes
The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.
Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".
Tool of the week
ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)
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
Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [১৯৭]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [১৯৮]
ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF - YouTube
Tool of the week
EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (phab:T261275)
Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (phab:T267502)
Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (phab:T267023)
Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (phab:T266936)
Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to dockerhub (phab:T264538)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December. Agenda
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in this response form (Google forms)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).
Future changes
The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [১৯৯][২০০]
The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [২০১]
The team recently published our analysis of the impact of newcomer tasks. We are happy to announce that we found that the Growth features, and particularly newcomer tasks, lead to increased editing from newcomers.
In November 2019, the Growth team added the "newcomer tasks" feature to the newcomer homepage. After six months, we collected data from Arabic, Vietnamese, Czech, and Korean Wikipedias. We analyzed the overall impact of the Growth features, including newcomer tasks.
This analysis finds that the Growth features lead to increases in:
the probability that newcomers make their first article edit (+11.6%)
the probability that they are retained as editors
the number of edits they make during their first couple of weeks on the wiki (+22%)
We also find that the quality of their edits, as measured by revert rate, is comparable to that of a control group.
The number of suggested edits completed by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020, with a line for the total.
The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.
Because of these results, we think all Wikipedias should consider implementing these features. Learn more about how to get them.
Variants C and D are two new arrangements of the newcomer homepage. We deployed them in October. After six weeks of these variants being deployed, we can see that they have led to increased interactions with newcomer tasks. Next, we will determine which variant is best and use that for all newcomers.
During workshops organized by education programs through the communities, workshops hosts like to mentor people they train on wiki. Several wikis requested to have a way to claim their mentees without having other newcomers being randomly being assigned to them. To address this need, a separate list can be created on wiki, for mentors that wish to claim mentees, but prefer not to have random mentees being assigned to them. Learn more about this feature.
Claiming multiple mentees at once
Mentors can use Special:ClaimMentee to claim a newcomer as their mentee. The feature now allows mentors to claim multiple newcomers at once.
The help panel allows people to post a message to the local help desk while editing. Previously, the tool always posted messages to the bottom of help desks. Wikis are now able to configure it to display new messages at the top of the help desk page. T261714
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Recent changes
You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [২০২][২০৩]
Changes later this week
Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [২০৪][২০৫]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).
User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We now have a central repository for wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!
Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (phab:T269102)
Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (phab:T191831)
Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (phab:T263258)
Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (phab:T268625)
Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs: Docker Image Repository, Tarball Repository
Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020 (Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
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Recent changes
There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [২০৬]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).
Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the demo system.
Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (phab:T267023)
Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (phab:T266638)
Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (phab:T267502)
Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (phab:T250550)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [২০৭]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [২০৮]
Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [২০৯]
Ongoing: rC3 (remote Chaos Communication Congress). Several Wikidata-related talks and meetups happening on December 27th, 28th and 29th: introduction to Wikidata, Wikidata for datajournalists, Wikidata meetups in German and English, and a Query Service workshop. (see Wikipaka schedule for more details)
Project Grants open call for proposals in 2021. Changes in the review process for Project Grants in 2021; the open call for community organizing proposals will be from January 11 to February 10 and the open call for software and research proposals will be from February 15 to March 16.
User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video (in Italian)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now lists languages on the index page using their autonyms (language name in that language). (Source)
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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [২১০]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [২১১]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [২১২]
Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [২১৩]
When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [২১৫]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Using QuickStatements for bulk uploading archived website data to Wikidata with Peter Chan, 12 January. Agenda
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #27 on Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook, 16 January
Video: How to use WikiBridge - a userscript that enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged-in user. Demo video
Tool of the week
QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikibase now has a dedicated Twitter account: Follow @WikibaseHQ for updates on everything Wikibase.
You can now create and curate catalog groups on Mix’n’match, and find the most common unmatched entries between them (Source)
Continued working on the Query Builder. We focused on making it possible to query for Item values and being able to limit the number of Items in the result. We also looked into how to query for quantity values.
Changed P920’s data type from string to external identifier (phab:T269205)
Finished working on the problem of Items that have the page prop wikibase:statements set to 0 but actually do have statements (phab:T145712)
Continued work on the “Publishing” step of the Wikibase release pipeline by building and testing three components of the software suite: Wikibase (phab: T267893), Query Service frontend (phab:T268025), and Query Service backend (phab:T268022)
Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs
Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released
Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters
Canada report: Branding Toolkit released by the Canadian Museums Association for GLAMs
Finland report: Hundreds of thousands of new photos released
Germany report: The Karl-Preusker-Medal 2020 goes to Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Netherlands report: Documentation of workflows for the ingestion of bibliographic data into Wikidata; Wikipedia & Africa: Why contributing to Wikipedia matters
Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.
Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [২২১]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সমস্যা
সম্পাদনা পার্থক্যে আইপিভি৬ ঠিকানাগুলি ছোট হাতের অক্ষরে দেখানো হত। এর ফলে অকার্যকর লিঙ্কের সৃষ্টি হচ্ছিল কারণ বিশেষ:অবদান আইপিদের জন্য কেবল বড় হাতের অক্ষর গ্রহণ করে। এটি ঠিক করা হয়েছে। [২২২]
এই সপ্তাহের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আপনি শীঘ্রই বহুভাষিক উইকিসংকলনের পৃষ্ঠাগুলির লিঙ্ক উইকিউপাত্তে যোগ করতে পারবেন। [২২৩]
প্রায়ই সম্পাদকরা দুটি আইটেমের মধ্যে একটি ফাঁক তৈরি করতে একটি "অ-ভাঙ্গন শূন্যস্থান" ব্যবহার করে, পড়ার সময় যা লেখাগুলিকে একসাথে দেখায়। এটি একটি লাইন বিরতি এড়াতে ব্যবহার করা যেতে পারে। আপনি এখন ২০১০, ২০১৭, এবং দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদনার বিশেষ অক্ষর সরঞ্জামের মাধ্যমে এটি যোগ করতে সক্ষম হবেন। দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদনায় অক্ষরটিকে একটি ধূসর পটভূমিতে দেখানো হবে। [২২৪][২২৫]
উইকিগুলি খারাপ সম্পাদনা বন্ধ করতে অপব্যবহার ছাঁকনি ব্যবহার করে। ছাঁকনি রক্ষণাবেক্ষণকারীরা এখন 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55-এর মত সিনট্যাক্স ব্যবহার করতে পারেন এবং সেই সাথে আইপি পরিসীমার জন্য 1.2.3.4/27-এর মত সিনট্যাক্স ব্যবহার করতে পারেন। [২২৬]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৩ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৪ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিনের্ভা হচ্ছে একটি আবরণ যা মোবাইল ডিভাইসগুলির জন্য উইকিমিডিয়ার উইকিগুলিতে ব্যবহৃত হয়। একটি পৃষ্ঠা সুরক্ষিত থাকলে, আপনি তা সম্পাদনা করতে না পারলেও আপনি সাধারণত সেটির উৎস উইকিকোড পড়তে পারেন। এটি মোবাইল ডিভাইসে মিনের্ভাতে কাজ করে না। এটি ঠিক করা হচ্ছে। কিছু ক্ষেত্রে একটির উপর আরেক লেখা চলে আসতে পারে। মোবাইলে কাজ করার জন্য আপনার সম্প্রদায়কে মিডিয়াউইকি:Protectedpagetext হালনাগাদ করতে হবে। আরও পড়ুন। [২২৭][২২৮]
ক্লাউড ভিপিএস এবং টুলফোর্জ, উইকির সাথে যোগাযোগের জন্য তাদের ব্যবহৃত আইপি ঠিকানা পরিবর্তন করবে। নতুন আইপি ঠিকানা হবে 185.15.56.1। এটি ৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি করা হবে। আরও পড়ুন।
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [২২৯]
Changes later this week
You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [২৩০]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [২৩১][২৩২]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [২৩৩]
Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [২৩৪]
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube
Tool of the week
Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond - YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like "Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample: "economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through "economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [২৩৬][২৩৭]
Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [২৩৮]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[২৩৯]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
ভিজুয়াল সম্পাদক এখন চিত্রগুলি খুঁজতে মিডিয়া অনুসন্ধান ব্যবহার করবে। আপনি যখন দৃষ্টান্তগুলি খুঁজছেন, আপনি তখন ভিজুয়াল সম্পাদকে কমন্সের চিত্র অনুসন্ধান করতে পারেন। এটি সম্পাদকদের আরও ভাল চিত্রগুলি খুঁজে পেতে সহায়তা করার জন্য। [২৪০]
একটি টাইমলাইন সম্পাদনা করার ফলে এটি থেকে সমস্ত পাঠ্য মুছে ফেলা হতে পারত। এটি একটি ত্রুটির কারণে হয়েছিল এবং এটি সংশোধন করা হয়েছে। এটি সঠিকভাবে দেখানোর জন্য আপনাকে আবার টাইমলাইনটি সম্পাদনা করতে হবে। [২৪২]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৩ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৪ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
বিকাশকারী এবং ব্যবহারকারীরা যারা রাস্ট প্রোগ্রামিং ভাষার সাথে উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিগুলিতে কাজ করতে আগ্রহী তাদের জন্য একটি ব্যবহারকারী গ্রুপ রয়েছে। আপনি ভবিষ্যতে আপনার উইকিকে আরও ভাল করতে চান এমন অন্যদের সাথে যোগ দিতে বা বলতে পারেন এখানে।
Upcoming: Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) - YouTube
Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) - YouTube
Tool of the week
EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties. phab:T264883
Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (phab:T124758)
Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (phab:T271126)
Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress here.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
যেসব উইকি গ্রোথ দল সরঞ্জাম ব্যবহার করছে, এখন সেসব উইকির যে কোনও স্থানে যাদু শব্দের মাধ্যমে নবাগতদের মেন্টরের নাম দেখা যাবে। এটি স্বাগতম বার্তায় বা ব্যবহারকারী বক্সে ব্যবহার করা যেতে পারে।
ভিডিওকাটটুলের একটি নতুন সংস্করণ এখন উপলভ্য। এটির সাহায্যে ভিডিও কর্তন, ট্রিমিং, অডিও অক্ষমকরণ এবং ভিডিও সামগ্রী ঘুরানো যায়। এটি বিকাশকারী আউটরিচ প্রোগ্রামের অংশ হিসেবে তৈরি করা হচ্ছে।
সমস্যাগুলি
কাজের সারিতে কিছু সমস্যা ছিল। অর্থাৎ, কিছু ফাংশন পরিবর্তন সংরক্ষণ করতো না এবং গণবার্তা প্রদানে দেরি হতো। এটি উইকি সম্পাদনায় কোনও প্রভাব ফেলেনি। [২৪৩]
কিছু সম্পাদক ফায়ারফক্স এবং সাফারির সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ দিয়ে স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে তাদের অ্যাকাউন্টগুলিতে লগ ইন বা প্রবেশ নাও করতে পারেন। [২৪৪]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৩ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৪ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
একটি লিঙ্ক যুক্ত করুন: গ্রোথ দল আমাদের প্রথম "কাঠামোবদ্ধ কাজ" নিয়ে প্রকৌশলগত কাজ চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে, যার মাধ্যমে নিবন্ধে উইকিলিঙ্ক যুক্ত করার কাজটি ভেঙে সহজ কিছু কার্যপ্রণালীর আওতায় নিয়ে আসা হবে। এর মাধ্যমে নবাগতদের একটি অ্যালগোরিদম দিয়ে কিছু শব্দ ও বাক্যাংশের পরামর্শ দেয়া হবে, যা অন্য নিবন্ধের সাথে সংযুক্ত হতে পারে।
একটি ছবি যুক্ত করুন: যদিও আমরা আমাদের প্রথম কাঠামোবদ্ধ কাজটি নির্মাণ করছি, একই সাথে আমরা পরবর্তী কাজ নিয়েও চিন্তা করছি। "একটি ছবি যুক্ত করুন" কাঠামোবদ্ধ কাজের মাধ্যমে যেসকল নিবন্ধে ছবি নেই, সে সকল নিবন্ধের ক্ষেত্রে নবাগতদেরকে উইকিমিডিয়া কমন্স থেকে ছবির পরামর্শ দেয়া হবে। এটা একটা আশাব্যাঞ্জক ভাবনা, এবং এক্ষেত্রে অনেক দিক নিয়ে চিন্তা করতে হচ্ছে। আমরা ইতিমধ্যে সম্প্রদায়ের সদস্যদের থেকে অনেক কিছু জেনেছি। আমরা সবাইকে প্রকল্প পাতা দেখার জন্য এবং আলোচনায় অংশ নেয়ার জন্য উৎসাহিত করছি।
আগামীর পথ: আরো উইকি গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্য পেতে যাচ্ছে[সম্পাদনা]
গত নভেম্বরে গ্রোথ দল নবাগতদের কাজের প্রভাব সম্পর্কিত বিশ্লেষণ প্রকাশ করেছে। আমরা ঘোষণা দিয়েছিলাম, যে আমরা দেখতে পেয়েছি গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্য এবং বিশেষত নবাগতদের কাজ নবাগতদের থেকে সম্পাদনার পরিমাণ বাড়িয়েছে।
এই ফলাফলের ভিত্তিতে আমরা মনে করি সকল উইকিপিডিয়ার উচিত এই বৈশিষ্ট্যসমূহ চালু করা।
আমরা আরো বিভিন্ন উইকির সাথে সংযুক্ত হয়ে এই বৈশিষ্ট্যাবলী প্রয়োগ করার কথা ভাবছি, এর মধ্যে সকল আকারের উইকিপিডিয়া অন্তর্ভুক্ত। বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া সম্প্রতি গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্য ব্যবহার করতে শুরু করেছে। ড্যানিশ, থাই, ইন্দোনেশিয়, এবং রোমানিয় উইকিপিডিয়াতে দ্রুতই এ বৈশিষ্ট্য চালু হতে যাচ্ছে। এ সম্পর্কিত প্রশ্নের জন্য আমাদেরকে জানান।
আমরা অনুবাদকের সন্ধানে আছি যারা এই ইন্টারফেস অনুবাদ করতে পারবে। Translatewiki.net-এ অনুবাদের কাজ করা হয় (এখানে কাজ করার জন্য উইকিমিডিয়া ব্যতীত অন্য একটি অ্যাকাউন্টের প্রয়োজন)। যেসকল সম্প্রদায়ে ইতিমধ্যে গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্য চালু আছে, তাদেরকে অনুবাদ যাচাই করার জন্য আমন্ত্রণ জানানো হচ্ছে। এখানে অনুবাদের কাজগুলো দেখুন।
আগের নিউজলেটারে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছিল, আমরা নবাগতদের নীড়পাতার দুইটি প্রকারভেদ নিয়ে পরীক্ষা করেছি। এর মাধ্যমে আমরা দেখতে চেয়েছি কোন সংস্করণ বেশি পরিমাণ পরামর্শকৃত সম্পাদনা শেষ করার ক্ষেত্রে কার্যকরী। আমরা পরীক্ষণটি শেষ করেছি, এবং জেনেছি যে এদের মধ্যে একটি ধরণের ফলে ডেস্কটপে বেশি সম্পাদনা করা হয়েছে, অন্যদিকে অপর ধরণের ফলে মোবাইলে বেশি সম্পাদনা হয়েছে। এর ভিত্তে, আমরা প্রতিটি প্ল্যাটফর্মে নবাগতদের জন্য সবচেয়ে কার্যকরী প্রকারভেদটি প্রয়োগ করব।
মেন্টর ড্যাশবোর্ড: আমরা বিভিন্ন সম্প্রদায়ের মেন্টরদের সাক্ষাৎকার নিয়েছি। এর কারণ আমরা মেন্টর ড্যাশবোর্ড বৈশিষ্ট্য নিয়ে ভাবছি, যার মাধ্যমে মেন্টরগণ তাদের পরামর্শগ্রহীতাদের উন্নতির ব্যাপারে ওয়াকেবহাল থাকতে পারবেন। আমরা সকল মেন্টরদের উৎসাহিত করব এ সকল সরঞ্জাম নিয়ে তাদের চিন্তা জানানোর জন্য।
মেন্টরদের জন্য জাদুশব্দ: বর্তমানে একটি জাদুশব্দ, {{#mentor}}, ব্যবহার করা সম্ভব, যার মাধ্যমে নবাগতদের মেন্টরের নাম দেখা যাবে। এটি স্বাগত বার্তা, ব্যবহারকারী বাক্স, ইত্যাদিতে প্রয়োগ করা যেতে পারে।
সাহায্য প্যানেলের বদলে প্রশ্ন সরাসরি মেন্টরদের কাছে যাচ্ছে: অধিকাংশ উইকিতে সাহায্য প্যানেল ব্যবহার করার সময় নবাগতরা সাহায্যকেন্দ্রে প্রশ্ন জিজ্ঞাসা করেন। চেক উইকিপিডিয়াতে আমরা এই প্রশ্ন সাহায্যকেন্দ্রের বদলে সরাসরি মেন্টরদের পাঠানোর মাধ্যমে পরীক্ষা করেছি। এর মাধ্যমে নবাগতদের অভিজ্ঞতা আরো সহজ হয়ে ওঠে, এবং মেন্টরশিপ প্রশ্ন কেবলমাত্র এর ৩০% বৃদ্ধি পায়। আমরা বর্তমানে এই পরিবর্তন আরবি, বাংলা, ফরাসি, এবং ভিয়েতনামিয় উইকিপিডিয়াতে প্রয়োগ করেছি এবং এটাকে সহজাত (ডিফল্ট) অভিজ্ঞতা হিসেবে তৈরি করছি।
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.[২৪৫]
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 - YouTube, Facebook, March 13
"Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। অনুবাদও পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
অনুচ্ছেদ অনুবাদ এখন বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ায় কাজ করছে। এটি মোবাইল ব্যবহারকারীদের নিবন্ধের অনুচ্ছেদ অনুবাদে সহায়তা করবে। এটি পরবর্তীতে আরও কিছু উইকিতেও আসবে। প্রথম লক্ষ্য হচ্ছে যেসব সক্রিয় উইকিতে নিবন্ধের সংখ্যা কম সেগুলো। আপনি এটি পরীক্ষা করে দেখতে পারেন এবং প্রতিক্রিয়া জানাতে পারেন।
কেউ একটি উইকিপিডিয়া নিবন্ধের লিংক টুইটারে যুক্ত করলে এখন থেকে প্রাকদর্শন দেখা যাবে। [২৪৭]
সমস্যাগুলি
অনেক গ্রাফে জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট ত্রুটি দেখা যায়। গ্রাফ সম্পাদকরা তাদের সম্পাদনার পর ব্রাউজারের ডেভেলপার কনসোলে তা পরীক্ষা করতে পারেন। [২৪৮]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৯ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১০ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১১ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
টেমপ্লেট নিয়ে কাজ করা সহজতর করতে বেশ কিছু পরিবর্তন আসতে যাচ্ছে। মার্চে প্রথম কোনও উইকিতে কিছু পরিবর্তন আসবে। অন্যান্য পরিবর্তনগুলো জুনে প্রথম উইকিতে আসবে। এটি যারা টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহার করেন এবং যারা রক্ষণাবেক্ষণ করেন উভয়ের জন্যই। আরও জানুন এখানে।
তথ্যসূত্র প্রাকদর্শন পূর্বনির্ধারিত বৈশিষ্ট্য হিসেবে কিছু উইকিতে ১৭ মার্চ চালু হবে। এটি পাতা প্রাকদর্শনের কিছু সেটিংস ভাগ করে নিবে। আপনি যদি রেফারেন্স টুলটিপস অথবা ন্যাভিগেশন-পপআপস গ্যাজেট পছন্দ করে থাকেন তাহলে সেগুলোর ব্যবহারও চালিয়ে যেতে পারে। এগুলো ব্যবহার করলে তথ্যসূত্র প্রাকদর্শন দেখা যাবে না। [২৫০][২৫১]
নতুন ফাংশন সমূহ ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার ১১ তে কাজ করবে না। কারণ, ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরার হচ্ছে একটি পুরনো ব্রাউজার যাতে বর্তমান সময়ে জাভাস্ক্রিপ্টগুলো যেভাবে লেখা হয় তা কাজ করে না। যেগুলো ইন্টারনেট এক্সপ্লোরারে এখন কাজ করছে এবারের মতো সেগুলো কাজ করবে। আরও পড়তে পারেন এখানে।
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (phab:T274634) adding tooltips (phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (phab:T199896)
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। আরও অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
যেসব উইকি ডেস্কটপ উন্নয়ন প্রকল্পের অংশ তারা এখন থেকে নতুন অনুসন্ধান ফাংশন ব্যবহার করতে পারবেন। ডেস্কটপ উন্নয়ন ও অনুসন্ধান ফাংশন পরবর্তীতে আরও বেশ কিছু উইকিতে আসবে। আপনি এর আগেই পরীক্ষা করে দেখতে পারেন।
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more.[২৫২]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৬ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৭ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৮ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems.[২৫৩][২৫৪]
23 March তারিখে ৬.০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অল্প সময়ের জন্য আপনি ১২ টি উইকি পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি ৩০ মিনিটের মতো স্থায়ী হতে পারে তবে এই সময় সম্ভবত আরও কম হবে।
You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later.[২৫৫]
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অন্যদেরও এই পরিবর্তন সম্পর্কে জানান৷ সকল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না৷ আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
কাইওএস ফোনের জন্য একটি উইকিপিডিয়া অ্যাপ এসেছে। এই ফোনে টাচ স্ক্রিন সুবিধা নেই, তাই পাঠকরা খুব সহজেই ফোনের বাটন ব্যবহার করে উইকিপিডিয়া ব্যবহার করতে পারবে। এখানে একটি সিম্যুলেটর রয়েছে, যা দিয়ে এটি কেমন দেখায় তা দেখতে পারবেন।
23 March তারিখে ৬.০০ টায় (ইউটিসি) অল্প সময়ের জন্য আপনি ১২ টি উইকি পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি ৩০ মিনিটের মতো স্থায়ী হতে পারে তবে এই সময় সম্ভবত আরও কম হবে।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৩ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৪ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৫ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ফ্ল্যাগড রিভিশনে এখন আর "tone" বা "depth" -এর মতো একাধিক ট্যাগ নেই। এটার এখন শুধু একটি স্তর থাকবে। এটা পরিবর্তন করা হয়েছে, কারণ, অল্প কয়েকটি উইকি এই বৈশিষ্ট্য ব্যবহার করে এবং এগুলো এই সরঞ্জাম ব্যবহারকে কঠিন করে ফেলেছিল। [২৫৭][২৫৮]
জাভাস্ক্রিপ্টের গ্যাজেট ও ব্যবহারকারী স্ক্রিপ্ট সাম্প্রতিক পাতার ভ্যারিয়েবল অ্যাক্সেস করতে পারে। ২০১৫ সালে এটি wg* থেকে mw.config -তে স্থানান্তরিত হয়েছে। wg* শীঘ্রই কাজ করা বন্ধ করে দিবে। [২৫৯]
March 22: Bug triage hour about Lexemes with Lydia Pintscher
March 23: SPARQL querying for Lexemes with Vigneron
March 24: Open discussion in French about Lexemes
March 25: Documentation Q&A with Dan Shick
March 27: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata, with Poslovitch
Upcoming: The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021(Add to calendar). This month we will have a team member from Enslaved.org talk to us briefly about how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) with the help of Wikibase (due of technical challenges they couldn't join us last time). Everyone is welcome to attend the call.
Upcoming: The Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is taking place remotely on June 24-25, and focusing on indigenous and underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects. The call for submissions is now open until April 15th, if you want to present something related to Wikidata and languages, feel free to apply.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Members of the EthicsLD Group will be leading a discussion on ethics in linked data, Tuesday, March 23rd.[২৬০]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #37 - YouTube, Facebook, March 27
erinnerungshort.de/kap/ is a data and photo research project and map visualization tool with federated license query from Structured Commons, by Raymond and Elya.
~7500 person items have been enriched with the new property GEPRIS person ID (P4872), imported from a high quality dataset from the Q707283.
Work on the first version of the Query Builder is nearing its end. Doing remaining work on querying for quantities, dates and ranges as well as polishing and bug fixing.
Made Cognate work correctly for redirects on Wiktionary (phab:T165061)
Fixed an issue where the termbox on Item pages used the wrong list of languages on the mobile version (phab:T275611)
Cleaned up deleted Items from the term store database table (phab:T263730)
Got feedback on the initial click-dummies for checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find mismatches
The dev team spent the last week prototyping a few things to learn if some things would be feasible/a good idea. Among other things we tried building a small tool to connect Senses to Items, looked into the different types of ontology issues that can be found on Wikidata and checked what using a document store for data storage would look like.
Note: from March 29th until April 12th, Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) is not available to answer messages. If you have any requests for the development team, please ask on Contact the development team. For any emergency, you can contact Lea Lacroix (WMDE). Because of Easter holidays in Germany, the upcoming newsletter will be issued one day later, on April 6th.
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অন্যদেরও এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে জানান৷ সকল পরিবর্তনগুলি আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না৷ অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
Some very old web browsersdon’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.[২৬১]
IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams.[২৬২]
সমস্যাগুলি
যখন আপনি এমন একটি পৃষ্ঠা সরান যা অনেক সম্পাদক তাদের ওয়াচলিস্টে রেখেছেন, পৃষ্ঠাটির ইতিহাস বিভক্ত হতে পারে। আবার কিছুক্ষণের জন্য আবার সরানও সম্ভব নাও হতে পারে। এটি একটি কাজের সারি সমস্যার কারণে হচ্ছে। [২৬৩]
মেটায় কিছু অনুবাদযোগ্য পৃষ্ঠাগুলি সম্পাদনা করা যাচ্ছিল না। এটি অনুবাদ সরঞ্জামে একটি বাগ থাকার কারণে হয়েছিল। নতুন মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণটি এরকম সমস্যার কারণে বিলম্বিত হয়েছিল। [২৬৪][২৬৫]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৩০ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৩১ মার্চ থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
সম্পাদকরা কোনও নিবন্ধের একটি অংশটি ভেঙে ফেলতে পারে তাই এটি দেখতে আপনাকে এটিতে ক্লিক করতে হবে। যখন আপনি ভাঙা সামগ্রীর অভ্যন্তরে কোনও বিভাগে কোনও লিঙ্ক ক্লিক করবেন তখন বিভাগটি দেখানোর জন্য এটি এখন প্রসারিত হবে। ব্রাউজারটি সেই বিভাগে স্ক্রোল করে নামবে। আগে আপনি প্রথমে নিজে ম্যানুয়ালি প্রসারিত না করলে এজাতীয় লিঙ্কগুলি কাজ করত না। [২৬৬]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
The citoidAPI will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format.[২৬৭]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৬ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৭ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৮ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
PAWS এখন নতুন উইকির প্রতিরূপে সংযুক্ত হতে পারে। ক্রস-ডাটাবেস JOINS ২৮ এপ্রিল থেকে আর কাজ করবে না। ডাটাবেসগুলিতে সংযোগ করার একটি নতুন উপায় রয়েছে। ২৮ এপ্রিল পর্যন্ত ডেটাবেসগুলিতে সংযোগের দুটি উপায়ই কাজ করবে। যদি আপনি মনে করেন এটি আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করে এবং আপনার সাহায্যের দরকার হয় তবে আপনি ফ্যাব্রিকেটর বা উইকিটেকে পোস্ট করতে পারেন।
April 7: Data import for Lexemes: how to add a lot of content in your language
April 8: Documentation Q&A
April 8: Leveraging text corpora for curating lexicographical data
April 10: Lingua Libre, how you can record words in your language and use them on Wikidata
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Cliff Landis (Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library) on “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” April 6th.[২৬৮]
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #39 - YouTube, Facebook, April 10
Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports additional Breton templates (Source)
User:Nikki/LexemeAddIPA.js userscript adds a link in the header for forms on lexeme pages which opens a dialog for adding IPA statements to forms that do not have any yet.
LexSAOB adds Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) identifiers to Swedish lexemes in Wikidata.
We continued to make improvements to the Query builder. We worked on adding a footer to the Query Builder (phab:T268643) and showing all relevant columns in the query result (phab:T277646) as well as querying for dates (phab:T272697)
Fixed a bug where Item pages scrolls back to "In more languages" block after every change of DOM (phab:T277999, being deployed to Wikidata later this week)
Continued working on a new grafana graph to track editor numbers split by namespace (phab:T275999)
Finished a small tool to get the ORES quality score for a list of Items. Waiting for deployment to toolforge for broader use now.
Defined remaining work for redirect sitelink exceptions (phab:T278962)
Royal Trees, powered by Wikidata is an interactive website that shows royal family trees, for all royal families worldwide. See an example of Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Started research and collecting material for the work on improvements to the Lexeme UI and prepared the first interviews
Finishing up the work on the first version of the Query Builder. We still need to get the security review before we can deploy it properly. Current state can be tested on the test system.
Finalized the dashboard to see the number of (active/very active) editors split by namespace. See the graphs at the bottom of this dashboard.
Continued working on the remaining pieces needed to fully support editing statements on Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199896)
Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, April 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alexandra Wong on experiences and workflows for linking archival collections to Wikidata. There will also be a recap of insights from the recent Canadian archivists’ panel on Wikidata by the University and College Archives Special Interest Section (UCASIS) of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA). Agenda, April 20
Upcoming: Wikipedia Weekley Network - Biodiversity edition: iNaturalist place ID YouTube, Facebook, April 23
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #41 - YouTube, Facebook, April 24
Upcoming: 25 April - WikidataDays Sessions II, an online editing session dedicated to democracy and political parties, coinciding with the celebration of Freedom Day.
Structured Data on Commons explained, with Andrew Lih, John Cummings and Pharos (Youtube)
Discovering history's notable people (audio). Using Wikidata and Wikipedia as the backbone, this project "construct[s] a new dataset of more than seven million notable individuals across recorded human history".
User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes).
Wikidata Lexeme Forms no longer automatically redirects you to login, so you can now use edit mode to view the forms of a lexeme in the “right” order. Here is an example.
Finished work on the support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via the API (phab:T199896)
Got all feature work done on the first version of the Query Builder. It is now awaiting security review.
Statements linking to deleted Lexemes now indicate this similar to statements linking to deleted Items (phab:T277089)
Fixing a bug with misaligned grammatical features after an OOUI update (phab:T278522)
Finished work on the small tools to get the number of constraints violations and ORES scores for a list of Items. Will publish soon.
Did interviews with a few people about how they work around lexicographical data
Selected focus languages for continued work on lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia together with Abstract Wikipedia team. The selected ones are Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam and Dagbani. You can read more about it in the Abstract Wikipedia newsletter.
Gave input to WMF search platform team for a survey draft around the query service in order to better understand how to move forward with improvements
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon.[২৬৯][২৭০]
If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces.[২৭১][২৭২][২৭৩]
Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before.[২৭৪]
মিডিয়াউইকির সর্বশেষ সংস্করণ গত সপ্তাহে উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিগুলিতে এসেছিল। গত সপ্তাহে কোনও প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ বের হয়নি।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
এই সপ্তাহে কোনও নতুন মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণ নেই।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
Working with Zotero on WiKidata (in Italian) - YouTube
Tool of the week
User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
Collaborative translation of Cita is now available on translatewiki.net. Cita is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data. Cita is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration here.
RaiseWikibase is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
Take a list of cities in your country, add {{Item documentation}} in the talk page and have fun looking at people born in this place ordered by number of sitelinks. You may have some surprises!
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
টেমপ্লেটগুলির নির্দিষ্ট মান থাকতে পারে এমন প্যারামিটার রয়েছে। টেম্পলেটডেটা দিয়ে সম্পাদকদের জন্য এই মানগুলি প্রস্তাব করা সম্ভব। আপনি শীঘ্রই তাদের ভিজ্যুয়াল সম্পাদকের একটি ড্রপডাউন তালিকা হিসেবে দেখতে পাবেন। এটি টেমপ্লেট ব্যবহারকারীদের সঠিক মানগুলি দ্রুত খুঁজে পেতে সহায়তা করার জন্য তৈরি করা হয়েছে। [২৭৫][২৭৬][২৭৭]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৭ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৮ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৯ এপ্রিল থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
কিছু জিনিস ৫ মে প্রায় এক মিনিটের জন্য কাজ করবে না। এটি ঘটবে ০৬:০০ ইউটিসিতে। এটি সামগ্রী অনুবাদ সরঞ্জাম এবং বিজ্ঞপ্তিগুলিকে আরো কিছু জিনিসের সঙ্গে প্রভাবিত করবে। ক্র্যাশ এড়ানোর জন্য একটি আপগ্রেড করার কারণে এটি হবে। [২৭৯]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
রেফারেন্স পূর্বরূপ ৫ মে থেকে একাধিক উইকিতে একটি ডিফল্ট বৈশিষ্ট্য হয়ে উঠবে। এটি পরিকল্পনার চেয়ে কিছু পরে হচ্ছে কিছু পরিবর্তন হওয়ার কারণে। আপনি চাইলে পৃষ্ঠা পূর্বরূপ ব্যবহার না করে এটি ব্যবহার করতে পারেন। আগের পরিকল্পনাটি ছিল উভয় বা কোনওটিই না ব্যবহারের উপায় রাখা। [২৮০][২৮১]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৪ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৫ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৬ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
.error, .warning এবং .successসিএসএস ক্লাসগুলি মোবাইল পাঠকদের জন্য কাজ করে না যদি তাদের নির্দিষ্টভাবে আপনার উইকিতে সংজ্ঞায়িত না করা থাকে। জুন থেকে তারা ডেস্কটপ পাঠকদের জন্যও আর কাজ করবে না। এটি গ্যাজেট এবং টেমপ্লেটগুলিকে প্রভাবিত করতে পারে। ক্লাসগুলি পরিবর্তে MediaWiki:Common.css বা টেম্পলেটস্টাইলসে সংজ্ঞায়িত করা যাবে। [২৮২]
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template:Item classification and Template:Item documentation now include more generic queries for classes: it include the number of subclasses, the number of instances, the number of instances by class, the list of instances and the list of most frequent properties for items of this class.
TP organization now includes generic queries for items of class school.
Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021
User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the Wikidata Query Service.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১১ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১২ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৩ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
অনলাইনে উইকিমিডিয়া হ্যাকাথন ২২-২৩ মে অংশ নিতে অংশগ্রহণকারীরা কী কাজ করার পরিকল্পনা করছেন তা দেখতে পারেন।
France report: Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2021; French open content report
Germany report: Northern Exposure for cultural heritage data
India report: Proofread competition on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library
Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2021; Museum Daerah Deli Serdang is now on Commons
Italy report: A Wikipedian in residence at the Civic Museum of Modena: report
Netherlands report: WikiVrijdagen with Atria and IHLIA, Wikimedians in Residence will increase the visibility of media art on Wikipedia, Wikimedia training: shared heritage, Papiamentu and Papiamento: Wikipedia is up and ready to go!
উইকিমিডিয়া প্রযুক্তি সম্রদায় কর্তৃক সর্বশেষ প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। এই পরিবর্তনসমূহ সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদেরকেও জানান। সকাল পরিবর্তন আপনার উপর প্রভাব ফেলবে না। অনুবাদ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে।
An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoidAPI would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.[২৮৮]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.[২৮৯]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৮ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৯ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২০ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to infoberd-bw.de
Upcoming
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
May 21-22, 2021 [২৯০] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
Template:Annotate QID (currently on en. & de.Wikisource) allows names and other terms in texts to be semantically annotated with the equivalent QIDs. sv.Wikisource has a similar template.
Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)
বেটা উইকিতে "একটি লিঙ্ক যুক্ত করুন" বৈশিষ্ট্যটির একটি স্ক্রিনশট।
"একটি লিঙ্ক যুক্ত করুন" বর্তমানে উৎপাদন পর্যায়ে আছে এবং শীঘ্রই আমাদের চারটি পাইলট উইকিতে (আরবি, চেক, ভিয়েতনামিয় এবং বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া) চালু হবে। আমরা এই সপ্তাহে এবং এর পরের সপ্তাহে শেষ পর্যায়ের পরীক্ষা চালাব। এর পরের সপ্তাহে, অর্থাৎ ২৪শে মে বা ৩১শে মে'র সপ্তাহে আমরা এটি চারটি উইকিতে চালু করব। এর দুই সপ্তাহ পরে আমরা প্রাথমিক উপাত্ত বিশ্লেষণ করব এবং দেখব কোনো সমস্যা বা ধারা দৃশ্যমান আছে কীনা। আমরা আশা করছি যে এই বৈশিষ্ট্য নতুন ধরনের নবাগতদেরকে সহজ এবং সফল সম্পাদনা করতে সাহায্য করবে। যদি সবকিছু চার সপ্তাহ পরে ঠিক থাকে, আমরা ধীরে ধীরে গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যযুক্ত সকল উইকিতে এই সুবিধাটি চালু করব।
আমরা বর্তমানে একটি মেন্টর ড্যাশবোর্ড নিয়ে কাজ করছি। এই বিশেষ পাতার লক্ষ্য মেন্টরদের সহায়তা করা, যেন তারা তাদের কাজে আরো সক্রিয় এবং সফল হন। প্রথম ধাপে এই ড্যাশবোর্ডে একটি সারণি থাকবে যেখানে মেন্টররা তাদের বর্তমান পরামর্শগ্রহীতাদের (মেন্টি) অবস্থা দেখতে পাবেন; এছাড়া তাদের নিজেদের সেটিংসের জন্য একটি মডিউল থাকবে, এবং অপর একটি মডিউলে তারা পরামর্শগ্রহীতাদের জন্য নিজ নিজ উত্তরগুলো গুছিয়ে রাখতে পারবেন।
আমরা গ্রোথ দলের চারটি পাইলট উইকিতে ত্রৈমাসিক অডিট পরিচালনা করেছি। এর প্রেক্ষিতে দেখা গেছে যে মেন্টরদের অধিকাংশই সক্রিয়।
সম্প্রদায় কনফিগারেশন সম্পাদনা বর্তমানে নির্মাণাধীন।
আমরা একটি প্রকল্পে কাজ করছি যার মাধ্যমে সম্প্রদায় নিজেদের মত করে গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যের কনফিগারেশন নিয়ন্ত্রণ করতে পারবেন। এর আগে সম্প্রদায়কে গ্রোথ দলের সাথে সরাসরি কাজ করতে হতো যেন, তাদের মাধ্যমে সম্প্রদায় কাঙ্ক্ষিত বৈশিষ্ট্যের পরিবর্তন করতে পারে। আমরা এই সক্ষমতার ভার প্রশাসকদের হাতে তুলে দিতে চাই, একটি সহজ ব্যবহারযোগ্য আকারে। এর মাধ্যমে সম্প্রদায়ের প্রয়োজন মোতাবেক সহজেই এই বৈশিষ্ট্য কাটছাঁট করা সম্ভব হবে। আমরা প্রাথমিকভাবে এটি গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যের জন্য বানাচ্ছি, তবে আমরা মনে করি অন্যান্য বৈশিষ্ট্যের ক্ষেত্রেও এটা প্রয়োগ করা সম্ভব হতে পারে। আমরা আগামী সপ্তাহে পাইলট উইকিগুলোতে এটা চালু করে দেখব, এবং এরপরে সকল গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যযুক্ত উইকিতে এটা প্রয়োগ করা হবে। আমরা আশা করছি আপনি প্রকল্প পাতা দেখবেন এবং আপনার যেকোনো ভাবনা আলাপ পাতায় জানাবেন।
গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যাবলী বর্তমানে ৩৫টি উইকিতে চালু আছে। নিচের এই তালিকায় সাম্প্রতিক উইকিগুলো উল্লেখিত আছে: রোমানীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, ডেনীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, থাই উইকিপিডিয়া, ইন্দোনেশীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, ক্রোয়েশীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, আলবেনীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, এস্পেরান্তো উইকিপিডিয়া, হিন্দি উইকিপিডিয়া, নরওয়েজীয় বোকমাল উইকিপিডিয়া, জাপানি উইকিপিডিয়া, তেলুগু উইকিপিডিয়া, স্পেনীয় উইকিপিডিয়া, সরল ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়া, মালয় উইকিপিডিয়া, তামিল উইকিপিডিয়া, গ্রিক উইকিপিডিয়া, কাতালান উইকিপিডিয়া ।
নতুন এক দল উইকিপিডিয়া গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্যাবলী প্রয়োগের জন্য নির্ধারিত হয়েছে। যদি প্রয়োগ করার প্রক্রিয়া সম্পর্কে আপনার কোনো প্রশ্ন থাকে, বা যদি আপনার সম্প্রদায় এই বৈশিষ্ট্যাবলী আগেই পেতে চায়, তাহলে স্বচ্ছন্দ্যে আমাদের সাথে যোগাযোগ করুন।
#1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the dashboard for more details)
Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
উইকিমিডিয়া আন্দোলন ফ্রিনোড নামে একটি নেটওয়ার্কে আইআরসি ব্যবহার করছে। নেটওয়ার্কের নিয়ন্ত্রণে কে রয়েছে তার চারপাশে পরিবর্তন হয়েছে। উইকিমিডিয়া আইআরসি গ্রুপ এর পরিবর্তে নতুন লিবেরা চ্যাট নেটওয়ার্কে যাওয়ার সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে। এটি সমস্ত চ্যানেল সরানোর আন্দোলনের জন্য একটি আনুষ্ঠানিক সিদ্ধান্ত নয় তবে বেশিরভাগ উইকিমিডিয়া আইআরসি চ্যানেল সম্ভবত ফ্রিনোড ছেড়ে চলে যাবে। এই বিষয়ে একটি মাইগ্রেশন গাইড এবং চলমান উইকিমিডিয়া আলোচনা রয়েছে।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৫ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৬ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৭ মে থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 1 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Affinity Group Co-facilitators will recap the last year, introduce plans for the coming year, and receive suggestions from the community for future sessions.; [২৯১], June 1st.
Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সমস্যাগুলি
ভেক্টর স্ক্রিনে পাতার শিরোনামের নিচের বিজ্ঞপ্তি এবং বিষয়শ্রেণীতে পাঠ্যের আকারের একটি সমস্যা ছিল। গত সোমবার এটি সমাধান করা হয়েছে। [২৯২]
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৮ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৯ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১০ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
উইকিমিডিয়া আন্দোলন প্রযুক্তিগত কাজের জন্য ফ্যাব্রিকেটর ব্যবহার করে। এখানেই প্রযুক্তিগত পরামর্শ, বাগ এবং ডেভেলপাররা কী নিয়ে কাজ করছেন তা সংগ্রহ করা হয়। ফ্যাব্রিকেটরের পিছনের সংস্থাটি এটিতে কাজ করা বন্ধ করে দেবে। এটি এখন উইকিমিডিয়া আন্দোলনের জন্য কিছু পরিবর্তন করবে না তবে, ভবিষ্যতে পরিবর্তন আনতে পারে। [২৯৩][২৯৪][২৯৫]
উইকিপিডিয়ায় অনুসন্ধান করলে কিছু ভিন্ন ভাষায় আরও ফলাফল পাওয়া যাবে। এটি মূলত তখন কাজ করবে যখন সঠিক বৈশিষ্ট্যসূচক শব্দ দিয়ে অনুসন্ধান করা হবে না কারণ সবসময় সেই ভাষায় এটাকে প্রয়োজন মনে করা হয় না। উদাহরণস্বরূপ Bedusz অনুসন্ধান করে জার্মান উইকিপিডিয়ায় Będusz খুঁজে পাওয়া যাবে না। ę অক্ষরটি জার্মান ভাষায় ব্যবহার করা হয় না তাই অনেকে এর পরিবর্তে e লিখবে। এটি ভবিষ্যতে কিছু ভাষায় আরও ভালোভাবে কাজ করবে। [২৯৬]
২০১৪ সালে এপিআই ক্রিয়াকলাপেরসিএসআরএফ টোকেন প্যারামিটারগুলি পরিবর্তন করা হয়েছিল। ২০১৪ সালের আগের পুরানো প্যারামিটারগুলি শীঘ্রই কাজ করা বন্ধ করে দেবে। এটি সেই বট, গ্যাজেট এবং ব্যবহারকারী স্ক্রিপ্টগুলিকে প্রভাবিত করতে পারে যেগুলো এখনও পুরানো প্যারামিটারগুলি ব্যবহার করে। [২৯৭][২৯৮]
Sweden report: Working with UN Human Rights; Aftermath to the fiddler competition; Music manuscripts from the 18th century; Digital visions; Should museums work with Wikipedia?; Wikidata project with museums has results
SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মোবাইল থেকে ওয়েবে লগ-ইন ব্যবহারকারীরা উন্নত মোবাইল মোড ব্যবহার করতে পছন্দ করতে পারেন। তারা এখন ডেস্কটপ ব্যবহারকারীদের মতো একই ভাবে বিষয়শ্রেণীগুলো দেখেন। এর অর্থ হ'ল কিছু গ্যাজেট যা সবেমাত্র ডেস্কটপ ব্যবহারকারীদের জন্য হয়েছে তা মোবাইল সাইটের ব্যবহারকারীদের জন্যও কাজ করতে পারে। আপনার উইকিতে যদি এই ধরনের গ্যাজেট থাকে তবে আপনি সেগুলি মোবাইল সাইটের জন্যও চালু করার সিদ্ধান্ত নিতে পারেন। মোবাইলে ভাল করে দেখাতে কিছু গ্যাজেট সম্ভবত সংস্কার করার প্রয়োজন হবে। [২৯৯]
ভবিষ্যতে আমরা সবাইকে অনিবন্ধিত সম্পাদকদের আইপি নাও দেখাতে পারি। এটা আইনগত কারণেই হবে। এখন প্রক্রিয়াটি মোটামুটি একটি খসড়ার পর্যায়ে রয়েছে যে যাদের প্রয়োজন রয়েছে তাদের আইপি দেখানো কীভাবে কাজ করতে পারে।
জার্মান উইকিপিডিয়া, ইংরেজি উইকিভয়াজ এবং ২৯টি ছোট উইকি ২২শে জুন কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য শুধু-পঠনযোগ্য মোডে চলে যাবে। এটি ৫:০০ থেকে ৫:৩০ ইউটিসির মধ্যে করার পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে। [৩০১]
২৮ জুন কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য সমস্ত উইকি শুধুমাত্র পাঠযোগ্য থাকবে। পরের প্রযুক্তি সংবাদে আরও তথ্য প্রকাশিত হবে। এটি আগামী সপ্তাহগুলিতে পৃথক উইকিতেও পোস্ট করা হবে। [৩০২][৩০৩]
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup.
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST
The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).
Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons (phab:T284854)
Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219)
Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820)
Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder
Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts
Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including:
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
otrs-member দলের নাম এখন vrt-permissions। এটি অপব্যবহার ছাঁকুনীগুলোকে প্রভাবিত করতে পারে। [৩০৪]
সমস্যাগুলি
আপনি ২২ জুন কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য জার্মান উইকিপিডিয়া, ইংরেজি উইকিভ্রমণ এবং ২৯টি ছোট উইকি পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি ৫:০০ থেকে ৫:৩০ ইউটিসি সময়ের মধ্যে করার পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে। [৩০৫]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২২ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৩ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৪ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [৩০৬], June 29th.
Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!
Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
"en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
উইকিসংকলনে একটি নতুন ওসিআর সরঞ্জাম যোগ করা হয়েছে। আপনি যদি উইকিসংকলনের "extract text" বোতামটি দেখতে না চান তবে আপনি .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } আপনার common.css পৃষ্ঠাতে যোগ করতে পারেন। [৩০৮]
সমস্যাগুলি
আপনি ২৯ জুন কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিগুলো পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি ১৪:০০ ইউটিসি-এ করার পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে। [৩০৯][৩১০]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৯ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৩০ জুন থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
"Threshold for stub link formatting", থাম্বনেইল আকার এবং শিরোনামগুলিকে স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে ক্রমিক নম্বর দেয়া হোক পছন্দসমূহে সেট করা যেতে পারে। এগুলির রক্ষণাবেক্ষণ ব্যয়বহুল এবং বেশি সম্পাদকগণ এগুলো ব্যবহার করেন না। বিকাশকারীরা এগুলি সরানোর পরিকল্পনা করছেন। এগুলি অপসারণ করলে পৃষ্ঠাগুলি দ্রুত লোড হবে। আপনি আরও পড়তে এবং প্রতিক্রিয়া জানাতে পারেন।
একটি সরঞ্জামদণ্ড উত্তর সরঞ্জামের উইকিটেক্সট উৎস মোডে যুক্ত হবে। এটি পৃষ্ঠাগুলিকে লিঙ্ক করা এবং অন্যান্য ব্যবহারকারীদের পিং করা সহজ করবে। [৩১১][৩১২]
User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ
প্রযুক্তি সংবাদের পরবর্তী সংখ্যাটি ১৯ জুলাই পাঠানো হবে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.[৩১৩]
সমস্যাগুলি
ইন্টারনেট আর্কাইভ বট কিছু উইকিতে অনলাইন উৎস সংরক্ষণে সহায়তা করে। এটি সেগুলো ওয়েব্যাক মেশিনে যোগ করে এবং সেখানে তাদের সাথে লিঙ্ক করে। এটি তাই যে পৃষ্ঠাটির সাথে সংযুক্ত ছিল তা অপসারণ করা হলে তারা অদৃশ্য হবে না। এটি বর্তমানে ভুল তারিখের সাথে যুক্ত করার ক্ষেত্রে একটি সমস্যা রয়েছে যখন এটি archive.is থেকে পৃষ্ঠাগুলি web.archive.org এ সরিয়ে নিয়ে যায়। [৩১৪]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
সঠিক টেমপ্লেটগুলি খুঁজে পাওয়া এবং ব্যবহার করা সহজ করার জন্য টেমপ্লেটগুলি খুঁজে পাওয়া, যোগ করা এবং অপসারণ করার সরঞ্জামটি আপডেট করা হবে। এটি ৭ জুলাই প্রথম উইকিতে আসবে। এটি এই বছরের শেষের দিকে আরও উইকিতে আসবে। [৩১৫][৩১৬]
এই সপ্তাহে কোনও নতুন মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণ নেই।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
কিছু উইকিমিডিয়া উইকি পতাকাযুক্ত সংশোধন বা অমীমাংসিত পরিবর্তন ব্যবহার করে। এটি পাঠকদের জন্য নতুন এবং অনিবন্ধিত অ্যাকাউন্ট গুলি থেকে সম্পাদনাগুলি লুকিয়ে রাখে যতক্ষণ না সেগুলো টহল দেওয়া হয়। নিরীক্ষকদের করা সংশোধনগুলিতে সয়ংক্রিয় পর্যালোচনা ক্রিয়াটি আর লগ হিসাবে সংরক্ষণ করা হবে না। সয়ংক্রিয়-পর্যালোচনার সমস্ত পুরানো লগ গুলি অপসারণ করা হবে। কারণ এটি প্রচুর লগ তৈরি করে যা খুব দরকারী নয়। [৩১৭]
LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
Upcoming:
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [৩১৮], July 13th.
A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube
Tool of the week
Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
সঠিক টেমপ্লেটগুলি খুঁজে পাওয়া এবং ব্যবহার করা সহজ করার জন্য টেমপ্লেটগুলি খোঁজা, যোগ এবং অপসারণ করার সরঞ্জামটি হালনাগাদ করা হয়েছিল। এটি ৭ জুলাই প্রথম উইকিতে আসার কথা ছিল, পরিবর্তে এটি ১২ জুলাই পর্যন্ত বিলম্বিত হয়েছিল। এটি এই বছরের শেষের দিকে আরও উইকিতে আসবে। [৩১৯][৩২০]
বিশেষ:অসংযুক্ত পাতা এমন পৃষ্ঠাগুলির একটি তালিকা তৈরি করে যা উইকিউপাত্তের সাথে সংযুক্ত নয়। এটি আপনাকে উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেমের সাথে সংযুক্ত হতে পারে এমন পৃষ্ঠাগুলি খুঁজে পেতে সহায়তা করবে। কিছু পৃষ্ঠা উইকিউপাত্তের সাথে সংযুক্ত করা উচিত নয়। আপনি এই জাদু শব্দগুলো ব্যবহার করতে পারেন __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ এটা কোন পাতায় ব্যবহার করলে তা বিশেষ পৃষ্ঠায় তালিকাবদ্ধ হবে না। [৩২১]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২০ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২১ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২২ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [৩২২], July 27th.
COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
Still mapping!"Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির একটি নতুন সংস্করণ গত সপ্তাহের আগের সপ্তাহে উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিতে এসেছে। এটি প্রযুক্তি সংবাদে ছিল না কারণ সেই সপ্তাহের কোনও নিউজলেটার ছিল না।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৭ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৮ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৯ জুলাই থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আপনি যদি মনোবুক স্কিন ব্যবহার করেন তবে আপনি মোবাইলে প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল নকশা বন্ধ করতে পছন্দ করতে পারেন। এটি এখন আরও স্কিনের জন্য কাজ করবে। যদি ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ সক্রিয় করা না থাকে তবে আপনাকে নতুন পছন্দসমূহ থেকে প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল মোড সক্রিয় করুন ও নিষ্ক্রিয় করতে হবে, অন্যথায় এটি কাজ করা বন্ধ করে দেবে। ইন্টারফেস প্রশাসকরা আপনার উইকিতে এই প্রক্রিয়াটি স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে করতে পারে। আপনি আরও পড়তে পারেন।
Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.
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
If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [৩২৩][৩২৪]
Changes later this week
When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [৩২৫]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).
Future changes
The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for আলোচনা সরঞ্জাম will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [৩২৬], Aug 10th.
LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [৩২৭]
Changes later this week
The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.
Future changes
The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [৩২৮]
Additionally, De Gruyter and Nomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to The Wikipedia Library with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the project page on Meta.
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do so at TranslateWiki!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ১৩:২৩, ১১ আগস্ট ২০২১ (ইউটিসি)
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আপনি আবার নতুন ভেক্টর স্ক্রিনের সাইডবারে ভাষার লিঙ্ক গুলি যোগ করতে পারবেন। আপনি পৃষ্ঠাটিকে উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেমের সাথে সংযুক্ত করে এটি করেন। নতুন ভেক্টর স্ক্রিনে ভাষার লিঙ্কগুলি সরিয়ে নিয়েছে তবে নতুন ভাষা নির্বাচক এখনও ভাষার লিঙ্ক গুলি যোগ করতে পারবে না। [৩৩০]
সমস্যাগুলি
অনুবাদ ("Translate") এক্সটেনশন ব্যবহার করা উইকিগুলিতে একটি সমস্যা ছিল। অনুবাদগুলি হালনাগাদ করা হয়নি বা ইংরেজি পাঠ্য দিয়ে প্রতিস্থাপিত করা হয়েছিল। সমস্যাগুলির সমাধান করা হয়েছে। [৩৩১][৩৩২][৩৩৩]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
একটি সংশোধন ট্যাগ শীঘ্রই সম্পাদনাগুলিতে যুক্ত করা হবে যা দ্ব্যর্থতা নিরসন পাতায় লিঙ্ক যুক্ত করে। কারণ এই লিঙ্কগুলি সাধারণত দুর্ঘটনাক্রমে যুক্ত করা হয়। ট্যাগটি সম্পাদকদের সহজেই ভাঙা লিঙ্কগুলি খুঁজে পেতে এবং সেগুলি ঠিক করার অনুমতি দেবে। আপনার উইকি যদি এই বৈশিষ্ট্যটি পছন্দ না করে তবে এটি লুকানো যেতে পারে। [৩৩৪]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
অতীতে, আপনার ব্যবহারকারীর কথোপকথনের যে কোনো পৃষ্ঠায় সম্পাদনা আপনার মিউট লিস্ট উপেক্ষা করত, যেমন সাবপেজ। এই সপ্তাহ থেকে শুরু করে, এটি শুধুমাত্র আপনার আলাপ পাতায় সম্পাদনার জন্য সত্য। [৩৩৫]
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৭ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৮ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৯ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
স্কোর এক্সটেনশন (<score> notation) পাবলিক উইকিগুলোতে পুনরায় সক্ষম করা হয়েছে এবং একটি নতুন সংস্করণে হালনাগাদ করা হয়েছে। কিছু সঙ্গীত স্কোর আর কাজ নাও করতে পারে কারণ এটি কেবল "সেইফ মোডে" কাজ করতে সক্ষম। নিরাপত্তা সমস্যাটি ঠিক করা হয়েছে এবং এই সংক্রান্ত একটি পরামর্শ প্রকাশিত হয়েছে।
সমস্যাগুলি
আপনি ২৫ আগস্ট-এ কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য কিছু উইকি পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি হবে ০৬:০০ ইউটিসি-এ। এটি ডাটাবেস রক্ষণাবেক্ষণের জন্য। এই সময়ের মধ্যে, কেন্দ্রীয় প্রমাণিতে কোন কাজ করা সম্ভব হবে না।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৪ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৫ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৬ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
This will affect your wiki as well as 11 other wikis. During this time, publishing edits will not be possible.
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
কিছু সঙ্গীত সংক্রান্ত স্কোর সিনট্যাক্স আর কাজ করে না এবং আপডেট করার প্রয়োজন হতে পারে, আপনি আপনার উইকিতে ত্রুটিযুক্ত পৃষ্ঠাগুলির তালিকার জন্য Category:স্কোর রেন্ডারিং ত্রুটিসহ পাতা দেখতে পারেন।
সমস্যাগুলি
ফন্ট অনুপস্থিত থাকায় সঙ্গীত সংক্রান্ত স্কোর কিছু ভাষায় গান রেন্ডার করতে পারছিল না। এটি এখন ঠিক করা হয়েছে। যদি আপনার ভাষা অন্য কোন ফন্ট পছন্দ করে, তাহলে অনুগ্রহ করে ফ্যাব্রিকেটরে একটি অনুরোধ করুন। [৩৩৬]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকি এপিআই-এ আপনি কীভাবে টোকেন পান তার জন্য প্যারামিটার ২০১৪ সালে পরিবর্তন করা হয়েছিল। পুরনো উপায় ১ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে আর কাজ করবে না। স্ক্রিপ্ট, বট এবং টুলগুলি যেগুলি ২০১৪-এর পরিবর্তনের আগে থেকে প্যারামিটার ব্যবহার করে সেগুলি আপডেট করা প্রয়োজন। আপনি এই সম্পর্কে আরো পড়তে পারেন।
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৩১ আগস্ট থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আপনি ৬ সেপ্টেম্বর-এ কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য কমন্স উইকি পড়তে পারবেন কিন্তু সম্পাদনা করতে পারবেন না। এটি হবে ০৫:০০ ইউটিসি-এ। এটি ডাটাবেস রক্ষণাবেক্ষণের জন্য।
১৩ সেপ্টেম্বর কয়েক মিনিটের জন্য সমস্ত উইকি শুধুমাত্র পাঠযোগ্য থাকবে। পরের প্রযুক্তি সংবাদে আরও তথ্য প্রকাশিত হবে। এটি আগামী সপ্তাহগুলিতে পৃথক উইকিতেও পোস্ট করা হবে। [৩৩৭]
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [৩৩৮], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.[৩৩৯]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
এই সপ্তাহে কোনও নতুন মিডিয়াউইকি সংস্করণ নেই।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
2017 সালে প্রদত্ত জেকুয়েরি লাইব্রেরিটি একটি সামঞ্জস্য স্তরসহ সংস্করণ ১ থেকে ৩-এ আপগ্রেড করা হয়েছিল। মাইগ্রেশন শীঘ্রই শেষ হবে, যাতে প্রত্যেকের জন্য সাইট দ্রুত লোড হয়। যদি আপনি কোনো গ্যাজেট বা ব্যবহারকারীর স্ক্রিপ্ট বজায় রাখেন, আপনার কোন "JQMIGRATE" ত্রুটি আছে কিনা তা পরীক্ষা করুন এবং সেগুলি ঠিক করুন, নাহলে সেগুলি ভেঙে যাবে। [৩৪০][৩৪১]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.
France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn
India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library
Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August
Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg
France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn
India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library
Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August
Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
বর্তমানে অনেকগুলো উইকিপিডিয়ার গ্রোথ বৈশিষ্ট্য চালু হয়েছে। গ্রোথ দল এর বৈশিষ্ট্যগুলো নিয়ে একটি প্রাজিপ্র পাতা প্রকাশ করেছে। এই অনুবাদযোগ্য প্রাজিপ্রতে রয়েছে বৈশিষ্ট্যগুলোর বর্ণনা, সেগুলোর ব্যবহারের পদ্ধতি, কনফিগারেশন পরিবর্তনের পদ্ধতি এবং আরো তথ্য।
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৪ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৫ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৬ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
এই সপ্তাহ থেকে, ইতালীয় উইকিপিডিয়া বুধবারে সফটওয়্যারের হালনাগাদ পাবে। এটি বৃহস্পতিবারে পাওয়া যেত। এই পরিবর্তনের ফলে, বাগ দ্রুত শনাক্ত ও সংশোধন হবে। [৩৪৪]
আপনি পুনরায় নতুন ভেক্টর স্ক্রিনের সাইডবারে ভাষা সংযোগ যোগ করতে পারবেন। আপনি এটি উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেমে পাতাটি যুক্ত করার মাধ্যমে করেন। নতুন ভেক্টর স্কিন ভাষা সংযোগকে স্থানান্তর করেছে, তবে নতুন ভাষা নির্বাচক এখনো ভাষা সংযোগ যোগ করতে পারে না। [৩৪৫]
সিনট্যাক্স আলোকপাত সরঞ্জাম কোডকে বিভিন্ন রঙে প্রদর্শন করে। এটি নতুন ২৩ টি ভাষার কোডকে আলোকপাত করতে পারবে। এছাড়া এখন গো প্রোগ্রামিং ভাষার উপনাম হিসেবে golang ব্যবহার করা যাবে, এবং একটি বিশেষ output মোড যুক্ত করা হয়েছে প্রোগ্রামের আউটপুট দেখাতে। [৩৪৬][৩৪৭]
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [৩৪৮], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [৩৪৯]
A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.
Problems
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [৩৫০]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [৩৫১]
Future changes
The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "আলোচনা সরঞ্জাম" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [৩৫২]
The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আইওএস ১৫-এর একটি নতুন ফাংশন রয়েছে যার নাম প্রাইভেট রিলে (অ্যাপল ওয়েবসাইট)। এটি ব্যবহারকারীর আইপি লুকিয়ে রাখতে পারে যখন তারা সাফারি ব্রাউজার ব্যবহার করে। এটি একটি ভিপিএন ব্যবহার করার মতো যে ব্যাবহারকারির আইপির পরিবর্তে আমরা অন্য আইপি ঠিকানা দেখি। এটি অপ্ট-ইন এবং শুধুমাত্র তাদের জন্য যারা আইক্লাউডের জন্য বাড়তি অর্থ প্রদান করেন। এটি পরে ওএসএক্স-এ সাফারি ব্যবহারকারিদের কাছে আসবে। উইকিমিডিয়া উইকির জন্য এর অর্থ কী তা নিয়ে একটি প্রযুক্তিগত আলোচনা রয়েছে।
সমস্যাগুলি
কিছু গ্যাজেট এবং ব্যবহারকারী-স্ক্রিপ্ট স্কিনের পোর্টলেট (নিবন্ধ সরঞ্জাম) অংশে সরঞ্জাম যোগ করে। এই অংশের এইচটিএমএল-এ সাম্প্রতিক একটি পরিবর্তন হয়তো সেই লিঙ্কগুলিকে একটি ভিন্ন ফন্ট-সাইজে পরিণত করেছে। এটি সিএসএস ক্লাস .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon যোগ করে ঠিক করা সম্ভব। [৩৫৩]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৮ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৯ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৩০ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
গেটিংস্টার্টেড এক্সটেনশনটি ২০১৩ সালে নির্মিত হয়েছিল এবং উইকিপিডিয়ার কয়েকটি সংস্করণে নতুন অ্যাকাউন্টধারীদের জন্য একটি অনবোর্ডিং প্রক্রিয়া প্রদান করে। যাই হোক, সম্প্রতি বিকশিত বৃদ্ধি বৈশিষ্ট্য আরও ভাল অনবোর্ডিং অভিজ্ঞতা প্রদান করে। যেহেতু উইকিপিডিয়ার বিশাল সংখ্যাগরিষ্ঠ এখন বৃদ্ধির বৈশিষ্ট্যগুলিতে অ্যাক্সেস পেয়েছে, তাই ৪ অক্টোবর থেকে গেটিংস্টার্টেড নিষ্ক্রিয়ের কাজ শুরু করা হবে। [৩৫৪]
অল্প সংখ্যক ব্যবহারকারী ৩০ সেপ্টেম্বরের পর উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিতে সংযোগ করতে পারবে না। এর কারণ হল, একটি পুরানো রুট সার্টিফিকেট আর কাজ করবে না। তাদের আরো অনেক ওয়েবসাইটের জন্যও সমস্যা হবে। যে ব্যবহারকারীরা গত পাঁচ বছরে তাদের সফটওয়্যার আপডেট করেছেন তাদের সমস্যা হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা নেই। ইউরোপ, আফ্রিকা এবং এশিয়ার ব্যবহারকারীদের তাদের সফটওয়্যার খুব পুরনো হলেও তাৎক্ষণিক সমস্যা হওয়ার সম্ভাবনা কম। আপনি আরো পড়তে পারেন।
আপনার ব্যবহারকারীর আলাপ পাতায় কেউ মন্তব্য করলে বা আলাপ পাতার মন্তব্যে আপনাকে উল্লেখ করলে আপনি বিজ্ঞপ্তি পেতে পারেন। বিজ্ঞপ্তি লিঙ্কে ক্লিক করলে এখন আপনাকে মন্তব্যে নিয়ে আসবে এবং মন্তব্যটি হাইলাইট করবে। পূর্বে, এটি করার ফলে আপনি সেই বিভাগের শীর্ষে চলে যেতেন যেখানে মন্তব্যটি ছিল। আপনি T282029-এ আরও তথ্য পেতে পারেন।
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
উইকিউপাত্ত থেকে উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিতে পরিবর্তন পাঠানোর আরও কার্যকর উপায় এই ১০টি উইকির জন্য সক্ষম করা হয়েছে: mediawiki.org, ইতালীয়, কাতালান, হিব্রু এবং ভিয়েতনামী উইকিপিডিয়া, ফরাসি উইকিসংকলন, এবং ইংরেজি উইকিভ্রমণ, উইকিবুক, উইকশনারি এবং উইকিনিউজ। যদি আপনি সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলি বা আপনার ওয়াচলিস্টে উইকিউপাত্ত থেকে পরিবর্তনগুলি যেভাবে আসে সে সম্পর্কে অদ্ভুত কিছু লক্ষ্য করেন ওই উইকিগুলোতে তবে আপনি ডেভেলপারদের জানাতে পারেন।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ৫ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৬ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৭ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
কিছু গ্যাজেট এবং বট যেগুলো এপিআই ব্যবহার করে এবিউজফিল্টার লগটি পড়ে সেগুলো ভাঙতে পারে। hidden আর বলবে না যে একটি এন্ট্রি implicit কিনা। যদি আপনার বটকে এটি জানতে হয়, একটি পৃথক সংস্করণ কোয়েরি করুন। উপরন্তু, দৃশ্যমান এন্ট্রিগুলির জন্য সম্পত্তির মূল্য false হবে; পূর্বে, এটি প্রতিক্রিয়ার অন্তর্ভুক্ত ছিল না। [৩৫৬]
উইকিউপাত্ত থেকে উইকিমিডিয়া উইকিতে পরিবর্তন পাঠানোর আরও কার্যকর উপায় সব উইকির জন্য সক্ষম করা হবে। যদি আপনি সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনগুলি বা আপনার ওয়াচলিস্টে উইকিউপাত্ত থেকে পরিবর্তনগুলি যেভাবে আসে সে সম্পর্কে অদ্ভুত কিছু লক্ষ্য করেন তবে আপনি ডেভেলপারদের জানাতে পারেন।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
আপনি শীঘ্রই আইওএস উইকিপিডিয়া অ্যাপে ক্রস-উইকি বিজ্ঞপ্তি পাবেন। আপনি পুশ বিজ্ঞপ্তি হিসাবেও বিজ্ঞপ্তি পেতে পারেন। আরও বিজ্ঞপ্তি আপডেট পরবর্তী সংস্করণগুলিতে হবে। [৩৫৭]
জাভাস্ক্রিপ্ট mw.config -এ শীঘ্রই আর wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, wgIllegalFileChars, $ltr-code5, $ltr-code6, $ltr-code7, এবং $ltr-code8 -এর মান থাকবে না। এগুলি বর্তমানে অভ্যন্তরীণ ব্যবহারের জন্য নথিভুক্ত এবং উইকি জাভাস্ক্রিপ্টে ব্যবহারের জন্য উপলব্ধ "স্থিতিশীল" ভেরিয়েবলের অংশ নয়।[৩৫৮]
The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module.[৩৫৯]
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১২ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ১৩ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ১৪ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
Videos
Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.
We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [৩৬০], Oct 19th.
Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
টুলহাব হল একটি ক্যাটালগ যাতে সফটওয়্যার টুল খুঁজে পাওয়া সহজ হয় যা উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্পে কাজ করার জন্য ব্যবহার করা যায়। আপনি আরো পড়তে পারেন।
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ১৯ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২০ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২১ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২৬ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ২৭ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ২৮ অক্টোবর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
ভবিষ্যতের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax.[৩৬১]
এসভিজি ফাইলে ব্যবহৃত লিবারেশন ফন্টের সংস্করণ আপগ্রেড করা হবে। শুধুমাত্র নতুন থাম্বনেল প্রভাবিত হবে। লিবারেশন স্যানস পরিবর্তন হবে না। [৩৬২]
Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.
উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।
সাম্প্রতিক পরিবর্তনসমূহ
একজন ব্যবহারকারি প্রতিদিন কত ইমেল পাঠাতে পারে তার একটি সীমা রয়েছে। এই সীমাটি এখন প্রতি-উইকির পরিবর্তে বিশ্বব্যাপী। অপব্যবহার রোধ করতেই এই পরিবর্তন। [৩৬৩]
এই সপ্তাহের পরের পরিবর্তনসমূহ
মিডিয়াউইকির নতুন সংস্করণ টেস্ট উইকি এবং MediaWiki.org সাইটে ২ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। অ-উইকিপিডিয়া ও কিছু উইকিপিডিয়ায় এটি ৩ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে। সকল উইকিতে এটি ৪ নভেম্বর থেকে উপলব্ধ হবে (পঞ্জিকা)।
Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [১]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
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The number of suggested edits completed by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020, with a line for the total.
The number of distinct users completing suggested edits by each wiki each week, going from December 2019 to November 2020.
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