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Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [1]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [2]
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [3].
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references. [4]
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [5]
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [6]
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [7]
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [8] [9]
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [10]
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [11]
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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Can you take a look? The original request was fairly short-notice, and now the event is in a couple of days. Thanks! Dominic·t 17:04, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
24		Tollcross, Edinburgh (talk)						Add sources
3		Westfield, Edinburgh (talk)						Add sources
3		Ferniehill (talk)						Add sources
27		Merchiston (talk)						Add sources
5		Braepark, Edinburgh (talk)						Add sources
625		Royal Australian Air Force (talk)						Add sources
124		Edinburgh Napier University (talk)						Cleanup
21		Cranhill (talk)						Cleanup
308		Ayr (talk)						Cleanup
50		Flour Babies (talk)						Expand
180		Edinburgh Trams (talk)						Expand
422		History of feminism (talk)						Expand
265		Leith (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
47		Big Wing (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
13		Thomas Hamilton (architect) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
253		Antifeminism (talk)						Merge
73		Pro-feminism (talk)						Merge
124		Men and feminism (talk)						Merge
43		Egyptian Expeditionary Force (talk)						Wikify
42		Meadowbank Stadium (talk)						Wikify
380		George Smiley (talk)						Wikify
2		Hugh Herdon (talk)						Orphan
26		Military service by the members of the British Royal Family (talk)						Orphan
2		McDonald Road Library (talk)						Orphan
4		West Craigs (talk)						Stub
5		Firrhill (talk)						Stub
24		Richard Edwardes (talk)						Stub
187		Feminist pornography (talk)						Stub
5		Edinburgh Science Triangle (talk)						Stub
14		Slateford (talk)						Stub

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Wikidata weekly summary #63

 

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

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Hey Andrew Gray

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:20, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #64

 

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
39		Dalbeattie (talk)						Add sources
124		McNab (dog) (talk)						Add sources
179		The Honourable Schoolboy (talk)						Add sources
7		William Cornwallis-West (talk)						Add sources
13		Megadyptes (talk)						Add sources
112		Duke of Wellington's Regiment (talk)						Add sources
11		Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum (talk)						Cleanup
90		Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (talk)						Cleanup
39		52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (talk)						Cleanup
1		Neuenhagener Mühlenfließ (talk)						Expand
17,172		Dog (talk)						Expand
184		Sikorsky H-19 (talk)						Expand
40		Issues in anarchism (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
57		Big Wing (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,914		Military rank (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
39		Feminism in the United Kingdom (talk)						Merge
39		Armed Forces of Haiti (talk)						Merge
37		Agrippina Vaganova (talk)						Merge
41		Egyptian Expeditionary Force (talk)						Wikify
10		1940 in Canadian football (talk)						Wikify
25		5th Infantry Division (India) (talk)						Wikify
27		Military service by the members of the British Royal Family (talk)						Orphan
5		Entrenching battalions (World War I) (talk)						Orphan
1		Hugh Herdon (talk)						Orphan
4		1954 Toronto Argonauts season (talk)						Stub
171		Feminist pornography (talk)						Stub
7		Anthony Fiala (talk)						Stub
4		Cape Bird (talk)						Stub
24		Richard Edwardes (talk)						Stub
9		Cape Denison (talk)						Stub

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Views/Day

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Quality

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

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Headings

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Images

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Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

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Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
43		Dalbeattie (talk)						Add sources
895		Regiment (talk)						Add sources
32		Royal Yugoslav Army (talk)						Add sources
111		Infantry of the British Army (talk)						Add sources
14		48th (South Midland) Division (talk)						Add sources
25		The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) (talk)						Add sources
36		52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (talk)						Cleanup
90		Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (talk)						Cleanup
18		42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (talk)						Cleanup
248		The Rifles (talk)						Expand
14		Guards Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
8		24th Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
55		Big Wing (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
43		Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
18		Alan Davie (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
40		Armed Forces of Haiti (talk)						Merge
251		Royal Regiment of Scotland (talk)						Merge
30		39th Infantry Division (United States) (talk)						Merge
35		Egyptian Expeditionary Force (talk)						Wikify
29		79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Wikify
19		5th Infantry Division (India) (talk)						Wikify
6		Rhapsody (Ashton) (talk)						Orphan
5		Entrenching battalions (World War I) (talk)						Orphan
16		Military service by the members of the British Royal Family (talk)						Orphan
24		Richard Edwardes (talk)						Stub
6		7th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
22		Jaman (talk)						Stub
4		59th (2nd North Midland) Division (talk)						Stub
10		Isobel Armstrong (talk)						Stub
21,681		Emily Ratajkowski (talk)						Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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