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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2016

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 9, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2016
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Project At a Glance
As of Q2 2016, the project has:

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:02, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Extraterrestrial atmospheres

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Extraterrestrial atmospheres. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Opened by me therefore already commented. Davidbuddy9Talk 19:30, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Content (measure theory)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Content (measure theory). Legobot (talk) 04:25, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 00:49, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Flux

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Flux. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 14:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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

A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [1][2][3]
Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [4][5][6]
Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [7][8][9]

Problems

On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [10]
Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #217

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
- Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
- Upcoming: OpenSym
- Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
- Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
- Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
- TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
- Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
- Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
- There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
- Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
Did you know?
- Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
- Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
Development
- Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
- Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
- Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
- Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
- Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
- Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
- Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
- Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
- Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Borel regular measure

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Borel regular measure. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

No comment Davidbuddy9Talk 04:34, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Margaret Hamilton (scientist)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Margaret Hamilton (scientist). Legobot (talk) 04:26, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 04:43, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [11]
Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [12]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [13]

Problems

On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [14][15]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
Special:Log now has a help link. [16]
The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [17]

Future changes

User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [18][19]
Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [20]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #218

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
- TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
- The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
- The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
- Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
- StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
Did you know?
- Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
- Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
- Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
Development
- Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
- A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
- More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
- Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
- More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
- Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

K2-72 system

Do you mind creating the articles for planets b, c and d of the K2-72 system? I have the star page made and I'm currently working on the K2-72e one. Here are two references:

Thanks. --MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 00:21, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

@MarioProtIV: Sure, did NASA announce a big batch recently for K2? Was a little surprised at first to see K2 catalog numbers so high now... Davidbuddy9Talk 00:26, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Quick I know but stubs for b, c, d are Done and ready for expansion. Davidbuddy9Talk 00:42, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Yeah they did about a while ago, more than 100 confirmed. --MarioProtIV (^talk/_contribs) 01:36, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Monosodium glutamate

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Monosodium glutamate. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

No comment Davidbuddy9Talk 15:04, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 July 2016

News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

Four seats to be filled in top WMF grantmaking body; General Counsel and Secretary Geoff Brigham leaves Wikimedia

Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

New ArbCom restrictions; genetically modified food safety

In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

Female scientists in India; Cracked.com probes Wikipedia's weaknesses

Featured content: A wide variety from the best

Promotions in four featured-content forums

Traffic report: Sports and esports

Northern summer makes sport the winner

Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

Plus a clerk appointment and two motions

Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment

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Please comment on Talk:Orders of magnitude (acceleration)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Orders of magnitude (acceleration). Legobot (talk) 04:24, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 04:56, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Evolutionary theory of sex (ETS)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Evolutionary theory of sex (ETS). Legobot (talk) 04:24, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Not done Davidbuddy9Talk 18:43, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
Last week's rollback is now documented. [21]

Problems

Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [22]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [23]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [24]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [25]

Future changes

The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [26]
Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [27]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)