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.
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.
[3]
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).
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)
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
IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since
Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.
[4]
Changes later this week
You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
[5]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
[6][7]
Wikis use
abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges.
[8]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
calendar).
Future changes
Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can
read more.
[9][10]
Cloud VPS and
Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can
read more.
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.
[11]
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.
[12]
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.
[13][14]
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.
[15]
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.
[16]
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.
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.
[3]
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).
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)
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
IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since
Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.
[4]
Changes later this week
You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
[5]
Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
[6][7]
Wikis use
abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges.
[8]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
calendar).
Future changes
Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can
read more.
[9][10]
Cloud VPS and
Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can
read more.
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.
[11]
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.
[12]
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.
[13][14]
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.
[15]
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.
[16]