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Editing news 2020 #3
On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.
Seven years ago this week, the
Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the
mobile visual editor in 2018.
The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The
2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can
enable it in your preferences.
In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
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)
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)
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!
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
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.
Editing news 2020 #3
On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.
Seven years ago this week, the
Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the
mobile visual editor in 2018.
The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The
2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can
enable it in your preferences.
In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
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)
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)
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!
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