WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
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
You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
Labs was broken several times this week. [7][8][9][10]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12][13]
You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]
We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
مرحبًا جميعًا. مُنذ فترةٍ ليست بالقليلة حدث أمرٌ ما لِقوالب المراجع فأصبحت بعض الخانات تُشير إلى أنَّ مُحتواها مفقود بعد أن كان تجاهله في السَّابق لا يُسبب هذه المُشكلة، مثلًا:
T.؛ Roof, J. (2007). "Carduelis tristis". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. تمت أرشفته من الأصل على 8 February 2008. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 4 February 2008. وسائط |coauthors= تم تجاهلها (مساعدة)
عبارة «تمَّ تجاهُلها» لم تكن تظهر بحال لم يتم ملء هذه الخانة، أمَّا الآن فهي تظهر، وتُشوِّه شكل المراجع، لا سيَّما وأنها تتكرر في أكثر من موقع. كُنت أقوم بتصحيح الأمر يدويًّا، لكن سئمت من البحث والتنقيب، ويجب حل المُشكلة بشكلٍ جذريّ.
أيضًا، من المشاكل الجديدة في المراجع هي هذه:
Lua error in وحدة:Citation/CS1 at line 92: Argument map not defined for this variable.
وهذه ظهرت فجأة بلا مُبرر أو مُقدمات، ولم أفهم معناها أو غايتها. ما السبب وراء هذه المُشكلات فجأة؟ (انظر مقالة حسون أمريكي على سبيل المِثال) وهل يُمكن حلَّها بدل أن ندخل إلى كُل مقالة بعينها ونُصحح ما ورد فيها؟ رأي الخُبراء مطلوب: عبَّاس، زكريَّا، وهراني، شبيب، مُحمَّد--باسمراسلني (☎)--: 13:09، 12 أبريل 2015 (ت ع م)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [21][22]
All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [23]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
Expanded our set of automated browser tests
Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
Continued work on our RDF generator
Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
@وهراني: أنا أؤيد الفكرة. لكني من زمن لا أشارك في ميدان التقنية لأنه شبه ميت ويندر أن تلقى تجاوبا ولو وجدته يكون من ويكيبيديين ليسوا ذوي خبرة بالمواضيع التقنية. تحياتي--Avicenno (نقاش) 19:59، 1 مايو 2015 (ت ع م)[ردّ]
@وهراني: حقيقة كنت أؤمن بها من أول مرة طرحت فيها بعض مشاكل نسخة الجوال هنا هي أنه إن لم يطرح الموضوع من قبل إداري في هذا الميدان فلن يتجاوب أحد. وبالفعل ذاك أحد الأسباب. مثلا نسخة الجوال تعاني من مشاكل جمة لكن لماذا سأتعب نفسي بكتابتها وشرحها بالتفصيل الممل طالما لن أجد تجاوبا. الأفضل لي أخذ الطريق من قصيرها وترك الموضوع. تحياتي--Avicenno (نقاش) 08:26، 2 مايو 2015 (ت ع م)[ردّ]
VisualEditor's editing environment is a browser ContentEditable element. This means that your input method editor (IME) should already know how to work with it. However, to make VisualEditor correctly edit wiki pages, we have to stop browsers in lots of ways from breaking the page.
Sometimes this can interfere with IMEs. To make sure we work in your IME, we need your help: please see wikimedia.github.io/VisualEditor/demos/ve/desktop-dist.html#!pages/simple.html. This is the core system inside VisualEditor which lets you write and edit. It is different from the full editor, and some of the tools you are used to will be missing.
We're interested in particular in whether you can write text at all, what happens when you select different candidate texts, and how VisualEditor behaves in general.
We would love to hear from every language, and especially languages which use IMEs, like Japanese, Korean, Indic languages, Arabic and others. Thank you for your help.
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
There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [24]
VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [25]
You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [26]
If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [27]
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [29][30][31]
If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [32]
You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [33]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [34][35]
There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
Development
On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
More work on RDF output and the query service
Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
السلام عليكم. بعد الانتهاء من مهام (مراجعة التعديلات المعلقة) حتى وصل عدد المقالات المعلقة إلى أقل من (600) مقالة، معلقة لمدة أقل من 3 أيام، أجد أمامي مهام جديدة فائقة الأهمية، حيث يوجد قرابة 68,000 (مقالة غير مراجعة) وهي تمثل 20% من مقالات الموسوعة العربية! ومنها ما يعود إلى أكثر من 3500 يوما مضت!!
وهذه المقالات موجودة هنا، لكنها غير مرتبة زمنيا بل مرتبة أبجديا. لذا أرجو ممن لديه خبرة بالبرمجة تجهيز (بوت) ينشأ لنا صفحة مرتبة زمنيا من الأقدم إلى الأحدث لنعمل عليها، أو عمل إضافة لتلك الصفحة تسمح بالترتيب الزمني. شكرا لكم. --Dr-Taher (نقاش) 13:10، 27 أبريل 2015 (ت ع م)[ردّ]
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
All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [36][37]
You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [38]
There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [39]
You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [40]
Problems
Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [41]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [42]
You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [43]
You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [44]
You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [45]
Meetings
You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
مرحبا. كيف أستطيع نقل صفحة ما أو بالأحرى تغيير عنوانها بأسهل طريقة؟ لأنني أجد صعوبة كبيرة في محاولة نقل صفحة مشهورة بإسم و مكتوبة بإسم آخر. Adnanzoomنِقاشي
إذا أردت ان تنقل صفحة فبإمكانك نقلها عن طريق الضغط على خانة "أنقل" وتجدها عند الضغط على خانة مزيد قرب شريط البحث. ولكن إذا رأيت أن موضوع النقل فيه خلاف فعليك أن تضع في الصفحة هذا القالب {{نقل|اسم المقال المراد النقل إليه}} وتطرح وجهة نظرك في صفحة نقاش المقالة.--Omar35880 (نقاش) 19:51، 1 مايو 2015 (ت ع م)[ردّ]
