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Wikidata weekly summary #47[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Extended diff view to include references now
    • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
    • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
    • Updated the demo system
    • More work towards using Solr for our search
    • More investigation and fixes of search issues
    • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
    • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
    • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
    • A lot of bug fixing
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
    • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
    • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
    • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
    • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
    • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
    • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
    • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
    • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
    • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
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Wikidata weekly summary #48[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The Signpost: 11 March 2013[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Wikidata weekly summary #49[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
    • Development
    • Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
    • More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
    • More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
      • bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
    • Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
    • Selenium tests for multiline references
    • Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
    • Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
    • Selenium tests for language-table
    • Implemented in-process caching for entities
    • Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
    • rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
    • Improved error reports from the API
    • Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
    • Added a table of content to item pages
    • Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
    • Finished implementation of References-UI
    • Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
    • Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
    • Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
    • Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
    • More work on RDF export
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
    • Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
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Question[change source]

Since you appear to be the sysop/'crat here, would it be okay to merge gaming guide/strategy guide content to my Video Games Wiki? It is supposed to be a Wikipedia equivalent for gaming. The link: http://videogames.shoutwiki.com. Will it be okay if I merge deleted gaming guide content from here and Normal Wikipedia. Also, do you think I should get 2001-2005 Wikipedia stuff? Those revisions were quite Simple English. Gaz and Gaming Fan (talk) 21:41, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an expert on legal matters, but I am guessing that it is not possible because your wiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0) license while Wikipedia licenses content under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0) license, and the share alike clause mandates that the work may be distributed "under the same, similar or a compatible license only." You should ask someone else who is able to interpret the legal text of the copyright license - I am really not quite sure. Chenzw  Talk  01:55, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, my wiki's license is now GFDL 1.3 licensing because I want it to be free content like Wikipedia is as it is simply a gaming version of Wikipedia. Gaz and Gaming Fan (talk) 23:03, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikimedia Foundation wikis are licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0 and the GFDL 1.2 (instead of 1.3), but I am really not sure and cannot advise you further on this. You should ask someone else who is more knowledgeable about the licensing details. Chenzw  Talk  10:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A week later...[change source]

Sorry, Chen, I've been neglecting my emails lately and only just got a look at that university thing a few minutes ago. I had completely forgotten about it (even as I reverted those edits this morning). It looks like you've got it covered, and I agree with the measures you've taken. Osiris (talk) 06:13, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem with that - looking at RC it seems that most of us have been rather busy too :P Chenzw  Talk  10:39, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFA[change source]

Hey Chenzw I've requested for user rights at WP:RFA. Can you please review them? If you think I'm all right then give me the rights. But if you think I'm not all right, then don't give me the permission. But just please notify me about my problems.--Pratyya (Hello!) 16:37, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I decline to review your request for patroller because I cannot come to a decision. Chenzw  Talk  16:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your decision. But about the rollback right, I wanna ask you that I started using huggle 2 months ago. Now I use that to simple english wiki regularly. And I've done more than 20 anti vandal edits. Yes 20+ anti vandal edit isn't too much. But I said that I have much anti vandal experience in en wiki. I've also done a CVUA course there. Then why I can't get the right. Don't think I'm blaming you. I'm just asking you.--Pratyya (Hello!) 17:27, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I will grant the rights only when it is clear that the additional tools will help you in contributing to this wiki. So far, I have not seen sufficiently strong evidence for that. Chenzw  Talk  17:16, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 March 2013[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Rey PJ Abellana[change source]

As you were the acting admin in the situation, I'll toss this one your way. Rey PJ Abellana was recently created by an IP. Back in Feruary, you had to protect Rey 'PJ' Abellana to prevent an IP from recreating the article. I can't see if it is the same article or the same IP, an admin would need to look into the issue. Strictly speaking, this would be a circumvention of that protection so I felt it best to let you know. --Creol(talk) 16:27, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed the same editor. Xe has gotten a complimentary rangeblock. Thanks! Chenzw  Talk  16:32, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #50[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
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Wikidata[change source]

I see you're getting the Wikidata updates on your talk page. I think the Wikidata functions are great additions to the Wikis. I've been trying to figure out when Phase 2 will be available here, and how we would implement it. Have you thought about that? My understanding is that individual infoboxes would need to be modified to use the Phase 2 options. Are you interested in talking about that? --Auntof6 (talk) 02:27, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's rather exciting - we will actually be able to reference data properties in a central repository. I guess we could begin by
These are a few I can think of. We could start by discussing it on WP:ST once the deployment notice (for stage 2) is posted. The timeline says that phase 2 will be deployed "a few weeks later" after February 4, but I guess there have been some complications. It is also theoretically possible to make almost all infoboxes reference wikidata, but I suspect we will not have a consensus for that so quickly/easily. Chenzw  Talk  02:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good. I'm looking forward to it. What objections do you think people will have to implementing this? --Auntof6 (talk) 04:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly, I am not quite sure. It seems to be a win-win situation for us considering the size of our community and therefore our limited ability to keep things up to date. Chenzw  Talk  05:14, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 March 2013[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Wikidata weekly summary #51[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
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    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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