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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]
Problems
There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]
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
People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [8]
The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [11]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [12]
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [13]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [14][15]
Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [16]
Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [17]
Viimeisimmät tekniset uutiset Wikimedian tekniseltä yhteisöltä. Kerro muille käyttäjille näistä muutoksista. Kaikki muutokset eivät vaikuta sinuun. Käännöksiä ovat saatavilla.
Tuoreita muutoksia
Muokkauksien tarkastelussa eronäkymän tekstin taustaväriin ja tavumuutosnumeroiden väriin on tehty joitain muutoksia viime viikolla. Näiden muutosten tarkoituksena on tehdä tekstistä luettavampaa sekä vaaleassa että pimeässä tilassa, ja ne ovat osa laajempaa tavoitettavuuden parantamista. Voit kirjoittaa kommenttisi tai kysymyksesi projektin keskustelusivulla. [18]
Vierailtujen linkkien, osoitettavien linkkien ja aktiivisten linkkien tekstivärejä muutettiin myös hieman viime viikolla niiden käytettävyyden parantamiseksi sekä vaaleassa että tummassa tilassa. [19]
MediaWikin uusi versio otetaan käyttöön testiwikeissä ja MediaWiki.orgissa 25. kesäkuuta. Se otetaan käyttöön kaikissa ei-Wikipedia-wikeissä ja joissakin Wikipedioissa 26. kesäkuuta. Se on käytössä kaikissa wikeissä 27. kesäkuuta (kalenteri). [21][22]
26. kesäkuuta alkaen kaikkien keskustelusivujen viestien aikaleimoista tulee linkki englanninkielisessä Wikipediassa, jolloin tämä ominaisuus on käytettävissä kaikissa wikeissä. Tämä linkki on pysyvä linkki kommenttiin. Sen avulla käyttäjät voivat löytää kommentin, johon heidät oli linkitetty, vaikka tämä kommentti olisi sittemmin siirretty muualle. Voit lukea lisää tästä ominaisuudesta Diffissä tai Mediawiki.orgissa. [23]
Viimeisimmät tekniset uutiset Wikimedian tekniseltä yhteisöltä. Kerro muille käyttäjille näistä muutoksista. Kaikki muutokset eivät vaikuta sinuun. Käännöksiä ovat saatavilla.
Tuoreita muutoksia
Seuraavan kolmen viikon aikana tumma tila tulee kaikkien käyttäjien saataville, sekä sisään- että uloskirjautuneille, mobiiliversiosta alkaen. Tämä täyttää yhden yleisimmistä yhteisön toiveista ja parantaa alhaisen kontrastin lukemista ja käyttöä hämärässä. Osana näitä muutoksia tumma tila toimii myös käyttäjäsivuilla ja portaaleissa. Lisätietoja on uusimmassa Web-tiimin päivityksessä. [24]
Sisäänkirjautuneet käyttäjät voivat nyt määrittää järjestelmänlaajuiset tekstin koon ja tumman tilan asetukset Foundation-tiimien yhteisen työn ansiosta. Tämän ansiosta useita wikejä käyttävät Wikimedia-käyttäjät voivat luoda johdonmukaisen lukukokemuksen helposti esimerkiksi vaihtamalla vaalean ja tumman tilan välillä kerralla kaikille wikeille. [25]
Jos käytät erittäin vanhaa verkkoselainta, jotkin ominaisuudet eivät välttämättä toimi Wikimedia-wikeissä. Tämä vaikuttaa Internet Explorer 11:een ja Chromen, Firefoxin ja Safarin versioihin, jotka ovat julkaistu ennen vuotta 2016. Tämä muutos mahdollistaa uusien CSS-ominaisuuksien käytön ja vähemmän koodin lähettämisen kaikille lukijoille. [26][27]
Wikipedian ylläpitäjät voivat mukauttaa paikallisia wikin määritysasetuksia helposti käyttämällä yhteisöasetuksia. Yhteisöasetukset luotiin, jotta yhteisöt voivat mukauttaa joidenkin ominaisuuksien toimintaa, koska jokaisella erikielisellä wikillä on yksilölliset tarpeet. Tällä hetkellä ylläpitäjät voivat määrittää growth-ominaisuudet kotiwikeihinsä, jotta he voivat saada ja pitää uusia muokkaajia paremmin. Lisää vaihtoehtoja tarjotaan tulevina kuukausina. [28]
Muokkaajat, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita Unicode-standardeihin liittyvistä kieliasioista, voivat nyt keskustella näistä aiheista uudessa MediaWiki.orgin keskustelutilassa. Wikimedia Foundation on nyt Unicode Consortiumin jäsen, ja koordinointiryhmä voi yhdessä tarkastella keskusteltuja asioita ja tarvittaessa saattaa ne Unicode Consortiumin tietoon.
Muokkaajat voivat jälleen napsauttaa visuaalisen muokkaimen viittauksen esikatselussa olevia linkkejä muokkaustiimin tekemän virheenkorjauksen ansiosta. [30]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.
Tool of the week
User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated: Wikidata:Development plan
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
Viimeisimmät tekniset uutiset Wikimedian tekniseltä yhteisöltä. Kerro muille käyttäjille näistä muutoksista. Kaikki muutokset eivät vaikuta sinuun. Käännöksiä ovat saatavilla.
CampaignEvents-laajennos on nyt saatavilla Meta-wikissä, igbonkielisessä Wikipediassa ja swahilinkielisessä Wikipediassa, ja sitä voi pyytää wikissäsi. Tämä laajennos auttaa tapahtumien hallinnassa ja tekemisessä näkyvämpiä ja antaa tapahtumien järjestäjille mahdollisuuden käyttää työkaluja, kuten tapahtumarekisteröintityökalua. Saat lisätietoja käyttöönoton tilasta ja tämän laajennoksen pyytämisestä wikiisi käymällä CampaignEvents-sivulla Meta-wikissä.
iOS Wikipedia -sovellusta käyttävät käyttäjät, joilla on yli 50 muokkausta, voivat nyt käyttää lisää kuva -ominaisuutta. Tämä ominaisuus tarjoaa mahdollisuuksia pieniin, mutta hyödyllisiin lisäyksiin Wikipediassa.
Vector 2022 -ulkoasun ongelma, jossa keskustelusivun välilehtien väri oli aina sininen, myös sivuille, joita ei ollut olemassa, on korjattu.
Tulevia muutoksia
The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
Australia report: Partner Project between Wikimedia Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) and the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU SICS)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.
An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
Merge and diff - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.
myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
Newest WikiProjects: Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102).
Viimeisimmät tekniset uutiset Wikimedian tekniseltä yhteisöltä. Kerro muille käyttäjille näistä muutoksista. Kaikki muutokset eivät vaikuta sinuun. Käännöksiä ovat saatavilla.
Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
Tällä viikolla tumma tila on saatavilla useissa Wikipedioissa, sekä työpöytänäkymässä että mobiilissa, kirjautuneille sekä uloskirjautuneille käyttäjille. Käyttöliittymän ylläpitäjiä ja pienoisohjelmien kehittäjiä kehotetaan tarkistamaan pienoisohjelmat ja skriptit pimeässä tilassa, löytämään kovakoodatut värit ja korjaamaan ne. On olemassa joitain suosituksia pimeän tilan yhteensopivuuteen.
Tulevia muutoksia
Ensi viikolla luottamustoimien haltijoita (functionaries), työkaluja ylläpitäviä vapaaehtoisia ja ohjelmistokehitystiimejä kutsutaan testaamaan tilapäiset tilit -toiminnallisuutta testiwikissä. Tilapäiset tilit on ominaisuus, joka auttaa parantamaan wikien yksityisyyttä. Muihin wikeihin ei ole vielä suunniteltu tilapäisten tilien käyttöönottoa. Ole hyvä ja jaa mielipiteesi ja kysymyksesi projektin keskustelusivulla. [31]
Muokkaajat, jotka lataavat tiedostoja eri wikien välillä tai opettavat muita ihmisiä tekemään niin, saattavat haluta liittyä Wikimedia Commonsissa käytävään keskusteluun. Commons-yhteisö keskustelee siitä, pitäisikö tiedostojen tallentaminen wikien välillä / tallennus-valintaikkunan kautta rajoittaa automaattisesti hyväksytyille käyttäjille. Tämä johtuu suuresta tekijänoikeusloukkausten määrästä, jotka on tallennettu tällä tavalla. Lyhyt yhteenveto löytyy sivulta Commons:Cross-wiki upload ja keskustelua käydään Commonsin kahvihuoneessa.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.
Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Papers:
Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Newest database reports: Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
Showcase Lexemes: water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean
Development
mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
EntitySchemas:
We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)
Viimeisimmät tekniset uutiset Wikimedian tekniseltä yhteisöltä. Kerro muille käyttäjille näistä muutoksista. Kaikki muutokset eivät vaikuta sinuun. Käännöksiä ovat saatavilla.
Toimintoihin liittyvät uutiset
Ylivalvojat voivat nyt estää järjestelmänlaajuisesti tunnuksia. Ennen muutosta vain IP-osoitteet ja IP-alueet voitiin estää järjestelmänlaajuisesti. Järjestelmänlaajuiset estot ovat hyödyllisiä, kun estetyn käyttäjän koko tiliä ei haluta lukita. Tämä muutos ei vaikuta lukituksiin (samanlainen työkalu, joka kirjaa käyttäjän ulos tilistään). Uusi järjestelmänlaajuinen tunnusten estämistoiminto liittyy tilapäiset tilit -projektiin, jossa uudentyyppinen käyttäjätili korvaa rekisteröimättömien muokkaajien IP-osoitteet, joita ei enää tehdä julkiseksi.
Myöhemmin tällä viikolla Wikimedian Merkityt versiot (tunnetaan myös nimellä "Odottavat muutokset") -käyttöliittymä muuttuu yhdenmukaisemmaksi muun MediaWiki-käyttöliittymän ja Wikimedian ulkoasujärjestelmän kanssa. Merkityt versiot -käyttöliittymän käyttökokemus mobiililaitteilla ja Minerva-ulkoasussa oli epäjohdonmukainen ennen kuin WMF Growth -tiimi ja jotkut vapaaehtoiset korjasivat sen ja siirsivät sen Codexiin. [32]
Wikimedia-sivuston käyttäjät voivat nyt lähettää tunnuksen hävityspyyntöjä sivun GlobalVanishRequest kautta. Tätä ominaisuutta käytetään, kun muokkaaja haluaa lopettaa muokkaamisen lopullisesti. Sen avulla voit piilottaa aiemman yhteyden ja muokata yksityisyyttäsi. Kun pyyntö on käsitelty, tunnus lukitaan ja nimetään uudelleen. [33]
Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.[34]
Projektipäivitykset
Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Opi lisää
Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.
WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.
The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
REST API:
We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikimatkat in Czech (voy:cs:) [35]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.
SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js: importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
