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| <center><div style="background-color:#CEDFF2; text-align:center; padding:10px; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; margin-bottom:10px; width:90%">"Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent making mistakes <br />is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." – ]<sup>]]</sup></div></center> | <center><div style="background-color:#CEDFF2; text-align:center; padding:10px; border:solid 1px #AAAAAA; margin-bottom:10px; width:90%">"Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent making mistakes <br />is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." – ]<sup>]]</sup></div></center> | ||
| == Flow in other wiki == | |||
| :''Moved to ]'' | |||
| == Wikimedia genealogy project == | == Wikimedia genealogy project == | ||
| Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to . And apologies if I have made this request before. ---] <sub>(])</sub> 17:42, 9 December 2014 (UTC) | Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to . And apologies if I have made this request before. ---] <sub>(])</sub> 17:42, 9 December 2014 (UTC) | ||
| == ''The Signpost'': 10 December 2014 == | |||
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| {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2014-12-10}} | |||
| </div><!--Volume 10, Issue 48--> | |||
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| == Wikidata weekly summary #137 == | |||
| <div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"> | |||
| ] | |||
| <div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.''</div> | |||
| <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> | |||
| * Events/Blogs/Press | |||
| ** | |||
| ** | |||
| ** past: ] | |||
| * Other Noteworthy Stuff | |||
| ** | |||
| * Did you know? | |||
| ** Newest properties: ], ], ], ], ] | |||
| ** Newest ]: ] | |||
| * Development | |||
| ** More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (]) | |||
| ** Further improvements to performance on the clients (Misplaced Pages etc) | |||
| ** Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process | |||
| ** Finishing touches on new sitelinks section | |||
| ** Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress | |||
| ** Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability) | |||
| ** Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache) | |||
| ** Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing | |||
| * Monthly Tasks | |||
| ** Hack on one of ]. | |||
| ** Help fix ] which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. | |||
| ** Help develop the next summary ] | |||
| ** Contribute to a ] | |||
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| <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''']''' · ] · ] 13:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
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| <section begin="technews-2014-W51"/><div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="plainlinks"> | |||
| Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. | |||
| '''Recent software changes''' | |||
| * You may see a ] tested on the mobile site of the English Misplaced Pages. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. | |||
| * You can to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. | |||
| * You can test a of the Content Translation tool. | |||
| '''Software changes this week''' | |||
| * The new version of MediaWiki (<span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">]</span>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (]). | |||
| * You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, <code lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Ctrl+F</code> or <code lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Cmd+F</code>. | |||
| * VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. | |||
| * The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. | |||
| '''Future changes''' | |||
| * The star image of the watchlist may change soon. | |||
| * You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down . | |||
| ''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ] • ] • ] • ] • ] • ].'' | |||
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| == New Misplaced Pages Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014) == | |||
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| Hello Wikimedians! | |||
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| ] is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our ]. You can sign up for: | |||
| *] - science and medicine journals and books | |||
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| == ''The Signpost'': 17 December 2014 == | |||
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| {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2014-12-17}} | |||
| </div><!--Volume 10, Issue 49--> | |||
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| == Wikidata weekly summary #138 == | |||
| <div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"> | |||
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| <div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.''</div> | |||
| <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> | |||
| * Discussions | |||
| ** Open RfAs: ] | |||
| ** Closed RfAs: ] (Successful) | |||
| * Events/Blogs/Press | |||
| ** Welcome Freebase! | |||
| *** | |||
| *** ] | |||
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| * Other Noteworthy Stuff | |||
| ** ] | |||
| ** | |||
| * Did you know? | |||
| ** Newest properties: ], ], ], ] | |||
| ** New task forces: ], ] | |||
| ** Showcase items: ] | |||
| * Development | |||
| ** Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :) | |||
| ** ~=:3 | |||
| ** Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Misplaced Pages | |||
| ** Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type | |||
| ** Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment | |||
| ** Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup) | |||
| ** Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign | |||
| ** Ongoing work on the that was split from the Wikibase code base | |||
| ** Finished tree of life | |||
| ** Some more work on support for units | |||
| ** Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator | |||
| ** has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it. | |||
| ** The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now. | |||
| * Monthly Tasks | |||
| ** Hack on one of ]. | |||
| ** Help fix ] which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. | |||
| ** Help develop the next summary ] | |||
| ** Contribute to a ] | |||
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| <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''']''' · ] · ] 17:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC) | |||
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| == VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014 == | |||
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| '''Did you know?''' | |||
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| Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button. | |||
| ] has more information about how to use VisualEditor. | |||
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| Since the last newsletter, the ] has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted ]. Upcoming plans are posted at the ]. | |||
| '''VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis''' as an opt-in ] at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ]). | |||
| === Recent improvements === | |||
| Basic support for '''editing tables''' is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid <code>rowspan</code> and <code>colspan</code> elements, instead of trying to repair them. | |||
| You can now use '''find and replace''' in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing <kbd>⌃ Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd> or <kbd>⌘ Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>F</kbd>. | |||
| You can now create and edit simple <code class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><nowiki><blockquote></nowiki></code> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "{{Int:Visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-paragraph}}" into a "{{Int:Visualeditor-formatdropdown-format-blockquote}}". | |||
| Some '''new keyboard sequences''' can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "<kbd>* </kbd> " will make the line a bullet list; "<kbd>1. </kbd> " or "<kbd># </kbd>" will make it a numbered list; "<kbd>==</kbd>" will make it a section heading; "<kbd>: </kbd>" will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change. There are also two other keyboard sequences: "<kbd>[[</kbd>" for opening the link tool, and "<kbd><nowiki>{{</nowiki></kbd>" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like <kbd>⌃ Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>K</kbd> to open the link editor, still work. | |||
| If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red. | |||
| You can again create and edit '''galleries''' as wikitext code. | |||
| === Looking ahead === | |||
| VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a '''new theme''' designed by the ]. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of ] and ] which will replace it.) | |||
| The Editing team ] '''for citations''' in January. Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier. | |||
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| Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available. | |||
| '''Recent software changes''' | |||
| * The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. | |||
| '''Software changes this week''' | |||
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| '''Future changes''' | |||
| * The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. | |||
| * A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can on test wikis. | |||
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