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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2014)
 The Mexico–United States border spans six Mexican states and four U.S. states, with a total length of 3,145 km (1,954 mi).
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Tourism in the Caribbean • Military technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:36, 1 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #135
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
- Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
- Picture this!
- Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
- Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
- IRC office hour on Wednesday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
- Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
- VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
- Did you know?
- Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
- Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
- Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
- Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
- Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
- Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
- Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
- Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
- JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
- Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
- Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
- Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
- Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
- Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
This Month in Education: October 2014
- Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
- Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
- Greece: Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
- Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
- Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
- Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
- Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
- Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
- Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
- Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
- Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
- WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
- Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more
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This Month in Education: November 2014
- France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
- Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
- Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Wikipedia
- Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Wikipedia
- Sweden: Successful Wikipedia assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
- Global: Wikipedia Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
- Global: Iberoconf discusses Wikipedia in education
- Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
- Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2014)
 Game design is the art of creating rules and mechanics to facilitate interactions between players in a game.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Mexico–United States border • Tourism in the Caribbean Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC) • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #136
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
- Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game has a new mode: alma mater
- Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
- Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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 software changes
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [1]
- You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [2]
Problems
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [3]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [4]
- You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [5]
- It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [6] [7]
- The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [8] [9] [10]
- (Lua) You can no longer use
mw.text.unstripto get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [11] [12]
Future changes
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [13]
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)