User talk:Ciphers/Archives/2012

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I made a WMF blog announcment about the deployment/beta website yesterday. While it was overloaded for a while it should be up now -- sorry for the late reply. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the

, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:23, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the

. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:51, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at

: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the radio silence, guys :). I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on starting a new round of hand coding, which you can sign up for here. This will be the final round (honest!), and is basically because we found some really interesting results from the last round that blew our collective mind. It's important to check that they weren't a fluke, though, and so a bit more work is needed.

If you have any questions, drop a note on my talkpage - and if you know anyone who would be interested in participating, please tell them about it! We'll be holding an IRC training session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on the 21st of March to run through the tool and answer any questions you may have. Thanks! :) Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing

, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding

• Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
• Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism;

.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:08, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new

.

Hand-coding

As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!

Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email okeyeswikimedia.org. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the Signpost discussed) that messed with the tool.

New designs and office hours

Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out the oversighter view and the monitor view to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on the talkpage :).

We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).

I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey Ciphers/Archives/2012; just a quick note to let you know that we'll be holding an Office Hours session at 18:00 UTC (don't worry, I got the time right ;p) on 4th May in #wikimedia-office. This is to show off the almost-finished feedback page and prep it for a more public release; I'm incredibly happy to have got to this point :). Hope to see you there! Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:54, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey Ciphers/Archives/2012 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As

, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our

on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup

) 23:26, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2012

Hey Ciphers! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:34, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the

is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at

! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool, Version 5

Hey all :)

Just a quick update on what we've been working on:

• The centralised feedback page is now live! Feel free to use it and all other feedback pages; there's no prohibition on playing around, dealing with the comments or letting others know about it, although the full release comes much later. Let me know if you find any bugs; we know it's a bit odd in Monobook, but that should be fixed in our deployment this week.
• On Thursday, 7th June we'll be holding an office hours session at 20:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing all the latest developments, as well as what's coming up next; hope to see you all there!
• Those of you who hand-coded feedback; I believe I contacted you all about t-shirts. If I didn't, drop me a line and I'll get it sorted out :).

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

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AFT5 release coming up - help us design a banner!

Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a much wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on 10 percent of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give this page a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:26, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback newsletter

Hey all!

So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office ^connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:39, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Page Triage newsletter

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #18

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

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Reset, undo, reverts and other cool things are working now (not on demo yet unfortunately)
  • Edit is now disabled if item should not be editable (e.g. in diff view)
  • Decided on how to solve messed up DOM structure of items around the page header
  • Decided on how to proceed with JS-API
  • All of the test coverage for Diff extension
  • Extended test setup on local test machine
• Discussions/Press
  • Deployment (Italian Wikipedia community is discussing becoming the second to use Wikidata)
  • Export to RDF
  • Signpost coverage of first deployment preparations
• Events
  • upcoming: Campus Party (If you want a ticket let Lydia know. She might be able to get you one.)
  • Lydia will give a keynote at FrOSCon
  • Denny will give a keynote at SMWCon
• Open Tasks for You
  • We added new stuff here if you want to hack
  • Give feedback on the layout concepts for phase 2

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New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in

project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk

) 15:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #19

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

• Development
  • Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system. Let us know if any important ones are missing.
  • Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected
  • The history and recent changes show useable comments now
  • The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension
  • Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext.
  • Improved internationalization messages
  • Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more
  • Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment
  • Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues
  • Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items.
  • Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata
• Discussions/Press
  • Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia
  • Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular. Like this one
• Events
  • upcoming: Campus Party
  • upcoming: FrOSCon
  • We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: with and without text Stickers and stuff are next.
• Open Tasks for You
  • If you want to code, check this
  • Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet.
  • Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net

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Wikidata weekly summary #20

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

• Development
  • Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/
  • Updated demo system
  • The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again
  • Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column
  • Started refactoring of selenium tests layout
  • Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation
  • Created abstract storage interface for the repository
  • Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities
  • Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends
  • Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects
  • The new API module for linking titles is live
  • Launched a demo client site in Hebrew
  • Various internationalization improvements and fixes
  • Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository
  • Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation
• Discussions/Press
  • Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits
  • Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published (the talks will hopefully follow soon)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
• Events
  • Campus Party
  • upcoming: FrOSCon
  • upcoming: WikiCon
  • announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.)
  • still looking for support for our SxSW panel
• Open Tasks for You
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Wikidata weekly summary #21

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

• Development
  • Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki incorporating feedback from wikitech and mediawiki.org, as well as updating the WIkibase code to match
  • Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata
  • Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data
  • Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for ltr-languages).
  • The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table
  • Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns
  • Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code
  • Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place
  • Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly “lastrevid” and “baserevid”
  • The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check if your bots are still working.)
  • The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full “ItemDisambiguation” page
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussion about unwanted edits
• Events
  • Campus Party (video)
  • FrOSCon
  • right now: WikiCon
  • upcoming: State of the Map
  • upcoming: office hours on IRC
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Please vote for our SXSW panel. Voting ends today.
• Open Tasks for You
  • for possible coding tasks check this
  • check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback

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Wikidata weekly summary #22

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

• Development
  • Anja Jentzsch joins the team
  • Worked on sorting for site-links table on item pages; enhanced some code in MediaWiki core for that
  • Fixed issue with aliases breaking grid layout of item pages
  • Worked on fixing issues for right-to-left languages in site-links user interface
  • Worked on new SpecialPage to create new items
  • Two new fancy Special pages appeared: ItemDisambiguation (lets you search for all items that have a given label or alias) and ItemByTitle (gives you the ID of the item that is connected to a given Wikipedia page)
  • Gave an introduction on Selenium testing to the team
  • Added Selenium tests for undelete & conflicts on undeletion
  • Added Selenium HowTo to meta wiki
  • Part of the team participated in the bug-triage on Wednesday
  • Final preparations to move site code into MediaWiki core
  • Preliminary work on data value implementations
  • Additional work on edit conflicts and permissions
  • Updates to the input json form to wbsetitem
  • Fixing some issues with failing site-links
  • More than 50 aliases in one language for an item should now work (previously more than 50 failed in an ugly way due to an API limit)
  • Updated demo repo and client
• Discussions/Press
  • Wikidata and ISO standards
• Events
  • WikiCon
  • office hours (de en)
  • ongoing: State of the Map
  • upcoming: Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
  • upcoming: Software Freedom Day Hamburg
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have a list of Wikidata team members on Twitter if you want to follow them
• Open Tasks for You
  • Test the demo system
  • Hack on one of these
  • (Ping Lydia if you’re looking for something else.)

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The Signpost: 10 September 2012

• From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes

• Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

• In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

• Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi

• Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial

• News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"

• Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

• Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions

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Wikidata weekly summary #22

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

• Development
  • Made new CreateItem special-page (also working JavaScript-less)
  • Special:ItemDisambiguation got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
  • Special:ItemByTitle also got lots of love and awesome autocompletion
  • The client-wiki now gets notified if a connecting Sitelink gets removed
  • Wrote Selenium tests for client-code
  • Editing/adding site-links will display a proper link to the page again
  • Removed auto-expansion for description/label input fields
  • Tested setting Mediawiki to use HTML5 to make sure it works as it should
  • Finished up work on new sites functionality in Wikibase and moved it as a patch to core (which is still awaiting review)
  • Worked on ValueHandler extension which will be used for our data values
  • Added “Type” entity type, plus skeletons for its associated Content, ContentHandler, ViewAction, EditAction and UndoAction
  • Implemented safeguards against text-level editing of data pages
  • Allow Sitelinks to Wikipedia only (fixed regression)
  • Wrote permission checks and edit conflict detection for ApiSetItem, undo/restore, etc.
  • Fixed display of deleted revisions of data items
  • Added --verbose option to pollForChanges maintenance script to show change summary
  • Bug fixes and improvements for right-to-left languages
  • Updated demo system
  • The long format (more like the json output format) for wbsetitem API module is now alive
• Discussions/Press
  • Sent note about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects via Global Message Delivery - generated quite some feedback on Meta
  • Started page to coordinate discussions about bots around Wikidata
• Events
  • State of the Map
  • Health 2.0 Berlin meetup
  • upcoming: Software Freedom Day
• Open Tasks for You
  • New stuff to hack on

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012

• From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook

• WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

• Featured content: Go into the light

• News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

• Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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Wikidata weekly summary #24

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

• Development
  • Met with a group of database experts from different projects to get input for phase 2 of Wikidata
  • Updated demo system (the corresponding git tag is c2425396f765ee77c990fd4b235c3d8d9f569018)
  • Selenium Tests for Edit Conflicts
  • Bugfix for weird behaviour of NOEXTERNALINTERLANG magic word
  • Bugfix for updating language links on client (they were not updated when the connecting link got removed or changed)
  • Windows support for pollForChanges-Script
  • New special page Special:CreateProperty for creating property entities
  • Property entities can be displayed now, editing them does not yet work
  • The API is generalized to handle additional entities
  • Created initial DataType implementation
  • Created store for the client
  • Improved and extended store for the repository
  • Started on initial DataValue implementation
  • Wrote tests for client
  • Fixed localization bugs
  • Special:ItemDisambiguation page now automatically populates the language field
  • Created a central place for associating entity content models with namespaces
  • Created functions for checking whether a given namespace is an entity namespace and whether a given content model is an entity model
  • Worked to make Items work in the main namespace, removed assumptions about the content model of the main namespace in several places
• Discussions/Press
  • Several questions/suggestions on m:Talk:Wikidata after last week’s message about Wikidata to all Wikimedia projects
  • More additions to m:Wikidata/Preventing unwanted edits, m:Wikidata/Notes/Future and m:Wikidata/Data collaborators
  • Deployment/code review discussions with the Foundation
• Events
  • Software Freedom Day
  • upcoming: Leipziger Semantic Web Tag / MLODE
  • upcoming: Datengarten
• Open Tasks for You
  • m:Wikidata/Bots is waiting for participation
  • Hack on all the tasks and bugs

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Page Curation newsletter

Hey Ciphers/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs

to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk

) 11:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

• In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention

• Recent research: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012

• WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011

• News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal

• Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times

• Featured content: Dead as...

• Discussion report: Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more

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Wikidata weekly summary #25

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

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items this applies for the combination of label and description.)
  • Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
  • Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
  • Added resource module for loading site information
  • Improved change handling on the client, including when items are deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the client’s recent changes (still rough)
  • New "List all datatypes" Special page
  • Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
  • Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to entities and item to entity
  • Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit token from action=tokens instead)
  • Some cleanup for the security audit
  • Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
  • Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
  • Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
  • Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being reviewed by WMF (current review status)
  • Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and visible online
• Discussions/Press
  • JSON for phase 2
  • Concept for entity selection widget
• Events
  • Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
  • Datengarten
  • upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
  • upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
  • upcoming: Data Days
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well in advance please so it reaches you in time.
  • We have a shiny new contribute page
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help update the press page
  • Pick one of the open coding tasks

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The Signpost: 01 October 2012

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

• News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners

• Featured content: Mooned

• Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty

• WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond

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Wikidata weekly summary #26

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

• Development
  • Added various new DataValue classes
  • Worked on ‘edit’ buttons for non-JavaScript version of entity views
  • Worked on resourceloader module for sites
  • Tests for PropertyView and CreateProperty
  • Tests for Uniqueness of Properties & Items
  • Tests for propagation of Item deletion/undeletion to client wiki
  • Tests for change propagation to Watchlists on client wiki
  • HTML validation results for Wikibase are now online
  • Special:CreateProperty is renamed to Special:NewProperty, to avoid naming conflicts in translatewiki with other extensions
  • Work on scripts for rebuilding and resetting data stores in the client
  • The client now handles when an item gets deleted on the repository
  • Wrote fixes for security concerns raised during review by WMF
  • Working on Wikidata branch in preparation of merging it into core/master soon.
• Discussions/Press
  • comparison articles
  • expiration dates for data
• Events
  • Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
  • Open Source Meetup Berlin
  • Data Days
  • upcoming: KESW (keynote by Markus Krötzsch)
  • upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • First 6 months of Wikidata are over!
  • Great pictures and videos taken at the MediaWiki Hackathon in Berlin earlier this year
  • You can follow all Wikidata bug reports by subscribing to the Wikidata bugs mailinglist
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Test some of the less common things you do on Wikipedia on the test repository and report bugs if you find anything that’s not working as it should

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

• News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance

• WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography

• Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk

• Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

• Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents

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Wikidata weekly summary #27

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

• Development
  • Wikidata branch was merged \o/ (about 10.000 lines of code) This also means that MediaWiki now has shiny new ContentHandler features to enable storing data and other content types
  • Updated demo system
  • Fixed MediaWiki core bugs and responded to feedback about the ContentHandler
  • Looked into Solr
  • Added statement interface for items
  • Added claim interface for entities
  • Added IRIValue and GeoCoordinateValue
  • Added GeoCoordinate parser
  • Added base for the ValueFormatters extension
  • Initial work on create claim API module
  • Initial work on better API transformation handling of the data model components
  • Made the API aware that entities, not items are the thingies we really want to get
  • Finished implementation of non-JavaScript edit buttons
  • Switched local integration server to use core master branch
  • Improved how recent changes from the repository are displayed in the client
  • Worked on tests for recent changes on the client
  • Added Wikipedia-compatible URL rewrites for subdomains en, de, hu and he (en.wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Helium leads to the item)
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussion on Hebrew Wikipedia about being deployment target number 2
  • Written a blog post looking back at August and September
• Events
  • KESW
  • upcoming: Wikimedia CEE meeting
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We’ve started a page to design the Main Page of Wikidata
• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Design the Main Page of Wikidata

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

• Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins

• In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page

• Featured content: Second star to the left

• News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks

• Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals

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Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones

here

.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #28

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

• Development
  • Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
  • Updated the demo system
  • Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
  • Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
  • Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
  • Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
  • Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
  • Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
  • Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
  • Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
  • Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
  • Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
  • Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
  • There is on-going work on a change from type-less identifiers for entities to identifiers that also carry type
  • Made site links table sortable
  • Worked on review statistics and JS documentation in doxygen (both not finished yet)
  • Latest review status update here
• Discussions/Press
  • Short piece about Wikidata in this month’s edition of Exberliner (print)
  • en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-10-15/Technology report
  • Update by Amir on discussions on Hebrew Wikipedia
  • Should JS/CSS pages be parsed?
• Events
  • Wikimedia CEE meeting
  • upcoming: Bootstrapping Awesome
  • upcoming: SMWCon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Announced next office hours for 5th and 6th of November
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help design the Main Page of Wikidata
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 22 October 2012

• Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective

• Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule

• Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

• Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

• News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science

• WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?

• Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?

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Wikidata weekly summary #29

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

• Development
  • Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
  • Prefix term search for entities
  • Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
  • API function wbsearchentities
  • Discussed JavaScript refactoring
  • Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
  • Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
  • Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
  • Continued deployment work with WMF
  • Poked at Vagrant
  • Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
  • New release of Pywikidata
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussions around bots on the mailing list
• Events
  • Bootstrapping Awesome
  • SMWCon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
  • Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
• Open Tasks for You
  • Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
  • Hack on one of these

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012

• News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs

• WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History

• Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live

• Featured content: On the road again

• Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

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Wikidata weekly summary #30

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

• Development
  • Launched wikidata.org \o/
  • Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
  • Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
  • Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
  • Added QUnit tests for DataValues
  • Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
  • Fix content handler and other related core bugs
  • Generalized Autocomment
  • Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
  • First implementation of wbsearchentities
  • More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
  • All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
  • Implemented templating system
  • Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
  • Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
• Discussions/Press
  • “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
• Events
  • SMWCon
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hours on IRC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
  • upcoming: ISWC
  • upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
  • upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
  • We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
  • Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
  • Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&list_id=151541&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

• Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end

• News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?

• Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks

• Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads

• Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

• WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs

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Wikidata weekly summary #31

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

• Development
  • Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
  • Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
  • Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Updated demo system
  • Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
  • Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
  • Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
  • Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
  • Helped with testing of deployment branch
  • Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
  • Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
  • Worked on Api.js refactoring
  • Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
  • Couple of minor fixes in the front end
  • Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface

• Discussions/Press
  • Flow of data between Wikidata repo and Wikipedias
  • Nice front page article in the latest edition of Linux User and Developer

• Events
  • office hours (logs here and here)
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
  • upcoming: ISWC
  • upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
  • upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
  • wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write [[d:Q2]] and link to item Q2 for example
  • Database dumps are available
  • New tools were added
  • Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
  • Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
  • Great Wikidata artwork!

• Open Tasks for You
  • Hack on one of these
  • Continue rocking!

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This is not a newsletter

This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the

here

.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:51, 10 November 2012 (UTC)