This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
The program of the WikidataCon is now
published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
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 get a
notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
[1]
The
Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
[2]
The
Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter and the
Tidy whitespace bug.
[3]
Problems
Tech News
2017/36 reported about
new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.
[4]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (
calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use
Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
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 see contributions from an
IP range at
Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single
IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
[6][7]
Flow has been re-scoped to become
Structured Discussions and the development
has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.
[8]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 September at 15:00 (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.
Recent changes
Wikitext
syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
[9][10]
You now
get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
[12]
Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
[13]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (
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
27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs.
Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (
phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (
phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (
phabricator:T174794)
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
preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.
[14]
Changes later this week
If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the
2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
[15]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
[17]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can
give feedback on this feature.
[18]
The search function has used
fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can
read more and give feedback.
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 number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
[19]
You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at
06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.
[21]
Changes later this week
The font in the edit window is
monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
[22]
If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is
Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base
YAGO. The second keynote speaker is
Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please
volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (
phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (
phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (
phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (
phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Hi,please correct me if I am mistaken, but I think Tiberius died in his 78th year.
Being born in November of 42 BC and having died in March 37 AD, he had turned 77, i.e. completed his 77th year. Thus, he was in his 78th year:
42 years before plus 37 years after the birth of Christ, minus 2, as he had not completed his last year and there was no year zero.
Yupanqui (
talk) 12:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
@
Yupanqui: You are right. I was working on the number of birthdays rather than years of his life. So you are correct regarding the calculation. I will revert my change. Thanks --
Chewings72 (
talk) 06:57, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Hephthalite Empire
so strange: in the first paragraph is "unnecessary", but in the forth one
still necessary… Regarding the year: in the historical article is the first binding of chronology is badly needed! -- wishing you happiness and hope for your understanding·1e0nid· (
talk) 10:04, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
@
·1e0nid·: Greetings - As a general convention in all Wikipedia articles, names related to articles only need to be linked the first time they are used in an article (see
MOS:OVERLINK)and years do not need to be linked at all (see
WP:YEARLINK). Regards --
Chewings72 (
talk) 11:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
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
When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in
more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
[23][24]
The
TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now
try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can
give feedback to the developers.
Problems
There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
[25]
Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
[26]
Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.
[27]
Changes later this week
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
[28]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the
events page and the
birthday page
A blog post describing
Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
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 use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more
in the documentation.
[29]
Changes later this week
When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
[30]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (
phabricator:T48329,
phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (
in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact
MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview
on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at
dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with
moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is
using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.
[32]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon,
here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
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 will no longer see the patrol log on
Special:Log unless you specifically select it.
[33]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 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
8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Hello, I'm
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. An edit that you recently made to
Wars of the Roses seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the
sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thanks! —
fortunavelut luna 06:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
@
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Thank you for your comment on my triple reverse somersault edit. I have accepted your comment as being well intended, but please note that I have been editing Wikipedia for a long time and, normally, know what I am doing. I just had a change of mind as to which side did in fact win the Battle of Bosworth. So sorry about the confusion. At this stage, I have no plans to demote myself to the sandbox :) --
Chewings72 (
talk) 08:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Get ye back in your cage! I do apologise, Chewings72, for failing
WP:DTTR. What was your thinking then, re. who won Bosworth? ("1485 And All That"!) I hope you're keeping well. Cheers, —
fortunavelut luna 09:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
@
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi:Thank you for your response. I wish other editors were as pleasant as you have been to interact with. All is well on the Aussie side of the world. All the best to you! --
Chewings72 (
talk) 09:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, don't revert the stable version as the discussion is still ongoing and editors involved have not come to an agreement yet. Your opinion is welcomed on talk page. Cheers.
Ktrimi991 (
talk) 19:50, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
The program of the WikidataCon is now
published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
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 get a
notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
[1]
The
Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
[2]
The
Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more
about using Linter and the
Tidy whitespace bug.
[3]
Problems
Tech News
2017/36 reported about
new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.
[4]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (
calendar).
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use
Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
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 see contributions from an
IP range at
Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single
IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
[6][7]
Flow has been re-scoped to become
Structured Discussions and the development
has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.
[8]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 September at 15:00 (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.
Recent changes
Wikitext
syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
[9][10]
You now
get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
[12]
Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
[13]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (
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
27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can't use
OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs.
Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (
phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (
phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (
phabricator:T174794)
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
preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.
[14]
Changes later this week
If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the
2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
[15]
The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
[17]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can
give feedback on this feature.
[18]
The search function has used
fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can
read more and give feedback.
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 number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on
Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
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You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at
06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.
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Changes later this week
The font in the edit window is
monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
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If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is
Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base
YAGO. The second keynote speaker is
Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please
volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (
phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (
phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (
phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (
phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Hi,please correct me if I am mistaken, but I think Tiberius died in his 78th year.
Being born in November of 42 BC and having died in March 37 AD, he had turned 77, i.e. completed his 77th year. Thus, he was in his 78th year:
42 years before plus 37 years after the birth of Christ, minus 2, as he had not completed his last year and there was no year zero.
Yupanqui (
talk) 12:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
@
Yupanqui: You are right. I was working on the number of birthdays rather than years of his life. So you are correct regarding the calculation. I will revert my change. Thanks --
Chewings72 (
talk) 06:57, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
Hephthalite Empire
so strange: in the first paragraph is "unnecessary", but in the forth one
still necessary… Regarding the year: in the historical article is the first binding of chronology is badly needed! -- wishing you happiness and hope for your understanding·1e0nid· (
talk) 10:04, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
@
·1e0nid·: Greetings - As a general convention in all Wikipedia articles, names related to articles only need to be linked the first time they are used in an article (see
MOS:OVERLINK)and years do not need to be linked at all (see
WP:YEARLINK). Regards --
Chewings72 (
talk) 11:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in
more powerful ways if your wiki wants it.
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The
TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now
try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can
give feedback to the developers.
Problems
There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis.
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Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this.
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Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install
Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the
events page and the
birthday page
A blog post describing
Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
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 use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more
in the documentation.
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Changes later this week
When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (
phabricator:T48329,
phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (
in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact
MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview
on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at
dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with
moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is
using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon,
here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
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 will no longer see the patrol log on
Special:Log unless you specifically select it.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 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
8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Hello, I'm
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. An edit that you recently made to
Wars of the Roses seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the
sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thanks! —
fortunavelut luna 06:45, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
@
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: Thank you for your comment on my triple reverse somersault edit. I have accepted your comment as being well intended, but please note that I have been editing Wikipedia for a long time and, normally, know what I am doing. I just had a change of mind as to which side did in fact win the Battle of Bosworth. So sorry about the confusion. At this stage, I have no plans to demote myself to the sandbox :) --
Chewings72 (
talk) 08:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Get ye back in your cage! I do apologise, Chewings72, for failing
WP:DTTR. What was your thinking then, re. who won Bosworth? ("1485 And All That"!) I hope you're keeping well. Cheers, —
fortunavelut luna 09:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
@
Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi:Thank you for your response. I wish other editors were as pleasant as you have been to interact with. All is well on the Aussie side of the world. All the best to you! --
Chewings72 (
talk) 09:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, don't revert the stable version as the discussion is still ongoing and editors involved have not come to an agreement yet. Your opinion is welcomed on talk page. Cheers.
Ktrimi991 (
talk) 19:50, 10 November 2017 (UTC)