أرابيكا:الميدان/تقنية/2015/فبراير
Wikidata weekly summary #143
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
- Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
- The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
- Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Tech News: 2015-06
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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
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [1]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [2]
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [3] [4]
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<section end="technews-2015-W06"/> 16:31، 2 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
Wikidata weekly summary #144
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
- Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- Mix'n'Match got a face lift
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- RStats client for Wikidata
- Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
- Did you know?
- Development
- Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Tech News: 2015-07
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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
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}
to transclude a section with its title. [5]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [6]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [7]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [8]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [9] [10] [11]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [12] [13]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [14]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [15]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [16]
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<section end="technews-2015-W07"/> 16:26، 9 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
منع إضافة ألفاظ نابية
مرحباً، قمت مضطراً برفع الفعل في المرشح 44 الخاص بإضافة ألفاظ نابية إلى درجة المنع، بسبب حالة التخريب الواسع الحاصلة. --زاهر نقاش 17:24، 9 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
Wikidata weekly summary #145
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
- Development
- <3
- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
- 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
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Tech News: 2015-08
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [17] [18] [19]
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [20]
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [21]
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [22]
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [23]
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [24]
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [25]
Future changes
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.
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<section end="technews-2015-W08"/> 17:57، 16 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
حلقات اللغة
أهلاً بكم. هل هنالك طريقة للحصول على قائمة بها جميع مقالات تصنيف بدون حلقات اللغة ؟ أود البحث في تصنيف:بذرة نبات. شكراً جزيلاً.--Helmoony (نقاش) 03:19، 20 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
فيديوهات إرشادية
هل يعلم أحدكم لماذا الفيديوهات الإرشادية: كيف تنشئ مقالة في أرابيكا؟ ملف:How to Create Article in Arabic Wikipedia.ogg و كيف تعدل مقالة في أرابيكا؟ ملف:How to Edit Article in Arabic Wikipedia.ogg غير موجودة؟ --C≡N- (نقاش) 23:41، 20 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)
Wikidata weekly summary #146
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
- ViziData
- Update on data quality project
- Update on structured data for Commons
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
- Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
- Showcase items:Montblanc
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Tech News: 2015-09
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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 new accounts are now global. [26]
- Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [27] [28] [29]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
- It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [30]
- It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [31]
- Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [32]
- Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [33]
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
- Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [34]
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<section end="technews-2015-W09"/> 16:28، 23 فبراير 2015 (ت ع م)