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More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
James, I just wanted to get your thoughts on the your color name change. I don't know much about UCLA, so I figured I'd ask. At Module:College color/data, we have been going by the media guides/traditions pages on athletic teams websites. UCLA lists their colors as "Blue and Gold" in the media guides (and have for at least the past couple of years, as well as the Traditions webpage. I think I have argued this in the past with someone else on the "True Blue" name. Most generally, as I believe is the case here, "Powderkeg Blue and "Westwood Gold" are just the branding names as a some universities have been known to use different names for branding. I cannot find anything else that says otherwise. Thoughts? CorkyBuzz by the Hornet's Nest18:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
That being said, "Powderkeg Blue" is used by reliable independent sources, [1][2][3] and at least one source says it is slightly different than True Blue. [4] I don't know if that's correct. James (talk/contribs) 23:10, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #286
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
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Hi James! As you may remember, this particular article has been the subject of a lot or PR editing, by the subject of it and apparently by her students. I cannot recall where, (COIN?) but it was the subject of a thread on a drama board at least once. I reverted an edit yesterday by another new editor who left me a note here and had also left a preemptory note on their talk page about the edit. This reeks of being a redeux of the previous incident. Just so you are aware. Hope it is well with you! John from Idegon (talk) 18:47, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
Re COI
Hi James, I totally see what you mean. I actually just edited that as an in-class example for my students on the differences between Edit and Edit Source. I'm collaborating with the WikieEdu program to get college students to edit Wiki articles, and this edit was made as part of an in-class demo on editing. Should I delete it? Or revert it? I don't feel strongly about including that edit. Thanks. Chapmansh (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
I note you've picked up the disambiguation issue on Duchess of Sutherland - I am enough of a novice to have not spotted that your solution solves much of the problem. The rest of it appears to me to be a "content" matter - perhaps making sure that Sutherland (disambiguation)#People has a bit of extra content - which would include some female Sutherland titles that point, amongst other places, to the moved Duchess of Sutherland page. I suppose it may be unsatisfactory having one disambiguation page point at another, but I think that is down to the complexity of the names of the people we are trying to direct the reader to - the Duchess of Sutherland that I originally searched for had at least 4 different names in her life, two of them including the word "Sutherland". Between all the different Duchesses with an article on them, there are a lot of alternative names - and all of them went by the less formal title of "Lady Sutherland". Thanks for your involvement. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 23:37, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
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