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Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
More testing on simple queries
Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
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More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
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Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)
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You cannot just revert without some sort of explanation. I have 2 sections of information relating to my edits on land in "talk".You need to read that. Anyone who doesn't realise land is at the heart of Maori culture should not be editing that article."doesnt belong here "is a totally pointless and wrong statement. It seems to me you have little knowledge of the topic to write this. Land is at the very heart of Maori culture. Cultural attitudes to land did not stay static. The period of most change was post 1864. Go onto the talk page and argue your point that information about land doesnt belong in an article about Maori culture. I will be really interested to see them.
I'm going to guess that the reversion was this one. That edit does nothing to connect the information presented to Māori culture, which is the subject of the article, thus it doesn't belong there. I have no doubt that land is at the core of Māori culture, but your insertion of mangle-referenced bald assertions of land sales into articles doesn't help build the encyclopedia Stuartyeates (talk) 02:35, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
So you have no actual arguement it seems? The information provided was an illustration of the more generalized statement that preceeds it. Clearly you didn't read the whole article. The connection to culture is clear and obvious. The heading is "Changes bought about by contact with Europeans". You cant get a more obvious connection than that. Claudia
Hi there. Just dropping a courtesy note that I've listed Donghua Liu for AFD here: [1] because it looks like a magnet for BLP problems. Hopefully I'm not treading on anyone's toes. Cheers. Daveosaurus (talk) 05:39, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
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You're more than welcome to. Personally I find DYK a little frustrating, but the wonder of wikipedia is that there are some many different people with different expertise, different temperaments and access to different sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:39, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México
Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth
Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden
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Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
Further progress on redirects
Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
Continued work on mockups for new user interface
Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
Hi Stuartyeates, thanks very much for your review of the Mama Cash stub. I've cleaned it up, and included references that are not self-published or close to the subject at hand. Part of the difficulty, of course, is that there is a certain form of systemic bias and under-representation re issues like women's rights - and thereby otherwise well-known women's rights organisations - especially in terms of mainstream media coverage. In any case, your points were well-made and I hope my edits have removed the issues you were concerned about. They also help me become a better editor! Thanks again, Anasuyas (talk) 21:31, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
:I'm an active participant in the work of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias, so we're on the same page here. I've removed the tags based on the new sources and made some tweaks. Given that the org is based in .nl, I'm surprised that all of the sources are in English, are you aware that Dutch-language sources are perfectly acceptable for proving notability? It's only when there are a surfeit of sources and we have to be selective that English-language sources are preferred. I would also encourage you to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism and Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies which are both active in this area if you're planning an on-going campaign of editing. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:04, 13 July 2014 (UTC) Sorry, I've just seen what your day job is. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, Stuartyeates. Yes, my day job has meant that I've spent most of my time in the last two years on Meta, and only copyediting on enWP. It was time to move into more solid editing on mainspace, but I do make newbie-ish mistakes still, so much appreciate your suggestions. I do know Dutch sources would be acceptable, but I wanted to confirm the 'international' notability of the subject, and I've found (sadly) that local sources have not always been universally welcomed. Thank you too for your work in Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias, it's critically (sic) needed. :-) Anasuyas (talk) 18:57, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
