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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #365

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
    • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
    • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
    • More work on mobile termbox
    • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Thank you ...

May
Rapeseed
... with thanks from QAI

... for improving article quality in May! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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June 2019, Volume 5, Issue 6, Numbers 107, 108, 122, 123, 124, 125


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Wikidata weekly summary #366

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
    • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)
  • Development
    • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
    • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
    • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
    • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
    • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
    • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.



Tech News: 2019-22

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

  • Advanced item Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [1][2]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism

Hi Andy, I wondered if you had any more information related to the list you have created at List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism? It has produced over 80 links to disambig pages & there isn't really enough info to try to sort out the correct links.— Rod talk 08:29, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

@Rodw: Very little; I have:

  • notes (not to hand, so I can't tell you the name) on one recipient, whose biography I intend to write later
  • a reminder to myself to find a copy (second hand, or inter-library loan) of Fevyer, Wilson and Cribb, the source cited in the artice about the award.
  • the PDF document I cited in the list article
  • resigned disappointment that someone has already suggested that people who were given this significant award might not be notable

I suspect that, in most cases, we need a new, red link rather than a disambiguation link; hence my request for assistance.

Interestingly, the subjects are largely working class people (e.g. coal miners dockers, train drivers), whose under-representation as a group is another facet of our systemic bias. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:32, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2019

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Volume 8 • Issue 5 • May 2019

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2019-05-29 Leicester University

Hello

Hello Andy, --Vi10242 (talk) 13:48, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

hello

hello, ANDY --Jiayx (talk) 13:49, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

hello

Hello, Haylin!--Haylin2887 (talk) 13:51, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello!!!!! Andy--Ginny0407 (talk) 13:53, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello--Serendipity9595 (talk) 13:54, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello world

Hello,--Wantingwei (talk) 13:55, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

hello

hello, --Kasims26330 (talk) 13:55, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello world

Hello,--Wantingwei (talk) 13:56, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy --RZoeBM (talk) 14:00, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy!--Murflet (talk) 14:24, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

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Wikidata weekly summary #367

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
    • Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
    • Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
    • More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
    • Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
    • Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
    • WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
    • Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
    • More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
    • Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
    • Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [3]
  • There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [4]
  • Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [5][6]

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [7]

Changes later this week

  • Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [8]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

GLAM help request: Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Can you help update the Pritzker Military Museum & Library's article? It has a lot of items that need updating, especially the new CEO. Relevant articles include:

Thanks for your help! TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:18, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@TeriEmbrey: I've added the publications; others have beaten me to the rest. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

AA color contrast ratio

In 2015, you added "ensure AAA color contrast ratio" to the musical genre infobox template.[9] Can you change that to AA instead of AAA? The AA level of conformance is a ratio of 4.5:1 which "should" be followed by Wikipedia, whereas the AAA level is 7:1 and is optional. People with 20/80 vision are the ones addressed by the AAA level,[10] but such people are usually using a form of vision correction when they are perusing Wikipedia, which is why the 7:1 ratio is optional. Binksternet (talk) 14:26, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Why would we reduce the accessibility of Wikipedia? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Adding TfD notice

The page Template:Infobox_Palestine_municipality is edit-protected, could you add 

{{Template for discussion/dated|action=|page=Infobox Palestine municipality|link=Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 June 6#Template:Infobox Palestine municipality|type=sidebar|bigbox={{#invoke:Noinclude|noinclude|text=yes}}}}

to it? 77.183.60.95 (talk) 21:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Done. Please consider creating an account. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:43, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

removed Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

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This Month in GLAM: May 2019



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Tech News: 2019-24

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 create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [11][12]
  • The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [13]
  • Advanced item Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [14]

Problems

  • Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [15]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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