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Editing News #2—2016
Editing News #2—2016 Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.
Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
Recent changes
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
Future changes
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
Let's work together
- Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
- Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2016)
Hello, Tom Morris.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Home page • List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 4 July 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Wikidata weekly summary #216
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
- The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
- Wikidata auf der GPN
- Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
- Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
- Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
- Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
- Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
- Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
- Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
- Development
- More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
- Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
- Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
- Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
- Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
- Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2016)
 An ear of rye
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Wikidata weekly summary #217
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
- Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
- Upcoming: OpenSym
- Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
- Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
- Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
- TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
- Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
- Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
- There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
- Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
- Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
- Development
- Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
- Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
- Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
- Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
- Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
- Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
- Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
- Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
- Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.