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• Αν μου αφήσετε μήνυμα εδώ, το πιθανότερο είναι ότι θα σας απαντήσω ακριβώς από κάτω και όχι στην δική σας σελίδα. Οπότε φροντίστε να έχετε το νου σας για την απάντηση (στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις όχι πάνω από 48 ώρες).
• Αν σας έχω γράψει στην δική σας σελίδα συζήτησης, απαντήστε μου εκεί και όχι εδώ. Μια συζήτηση είναι πιο κατανοητή όταν διεξάγεται σε μία μόνο σελίδα για να αποφεύγεται το μπρος πίσω και το ψάξιμο για το ποιος είπε τι.
• Αν αυτό που θέλετε να μου πείτε αφορά κάποιο λήμμα, πρότυπο ή χρήστη, βάλτε ένα σύνδεσμο για να είμαι σίγουρος ότι έχω κατευθυνθεί σωστά και να μην χρειάζεται να το ψάχνω.
• Το όνομα χρήστη μου στους περισσότερους ιστότοπους και υπηρεσίες στο διαδίκτυο είναι geraki ή geraki.gr. Κάποιες φορές ακόμη και φίλοι αναφέρονται σε εμένα ως "γεράκι", "ιέραξ" κλπ. Προτιμώ όμως να χρησιμοποιείται ο τύπος που προανέφερα.

Ευχαριστώ.

Μην ξεχνάτε ότι μπορείτε να μου στείλετε και e-mail Διατηρώ το δικαίωμα της δημοσίευσης οποιουδήποτε e-mail αφορά θέματα της Βικιπαίδειας.

Do not forget that you can also send me an e-mail I reserve the right to publish any e-mail regarding Wikipedia topics.

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Ξανά, υπενθύμιση. Ελπίζω να σταθείς στο ύψος σου και να μη με στείλεις στον αγύριστο, χα χα. Αλλά εσύ ο ίδιος μου είχες πει ότι έαν δεν το κανείς (θα εξηγήσω σε λίγο) να στο υπενθυμίσω. Λόγω φόρτου που προφανώς έχεις σου είχα αφήσει ένα τετράμηνο περιθώριο. Είχαμε πει να στο υπενθυμίσω το Πάσχα. Τελικά, το άφησα λίγο παραπάνω...

Ήρθε η ώρα, λοιπόν, για την υπενθύμιση! Μετά από δική μου προτροπή δημιούργησες ένα πρότυπο για τις σελίδες συζήτησης λημμάτων που αφορούν την Επιχείρηση: Προσωπικότητες του Κινηματογράφου, το οποίο συνδυάζεται με την Επιχείρηση Κινηματογράφος. Και είχαμε συμφωνήσει, να μην το προσθέσω παντού χειροκίνητα, αλλά να το κάνεις με το bot σου. Τελικά, δεν έγινε ακόμα, χα χα. Απλώς, σου κάνω άλλη μία υπενθύμιση, τίποτα παραπάνω.

Ένα ακόμα ζήτημα που θα ήθελα να θίξω είναι για την Κατηγορία:Πρότυπα πλοήγησης. Η εν λόγω κατηγορία διαθέται πάνω από 3.500 λήμματα. Πρότεινα στην Αγορά, όταν ένα πρότυπο μπαίνει σε μία άλλη κατηγορία να μην μπαίνει αυτομάτως και η παραπάνω κατηγορία... Δεν πήρα συγκεκριμένη απάντηση, οπότε σου το αναφέρω κι εδώ, γιατί νομίζω ότι θα μπορείς να λύσεις το πρόβλημα εύκολα...

Ευχαριστώ και πάλι. Και συγγνώμη για τις υπενθυμίσεις/ενοχλήσεις!

Σωστή η υπενθύμιση. :-) Θα ασχοληθώ με το πρότυπο της Βικιεπιχείρησης από την επόμενη Δευτέρα.

Για την Κατηγορία:Πρότυπα πλοήγησης νομίζω δεν είναι τόσο σημαντικό. Μπορεί να προστεθεί σχετικός κώδικας αλλά θα πρέπει να γίνει επεξεργασία των προτύπων που δεν θέλουμε να εμφανίζονται στην κεντρική (ή η απρόσεκτη αντιγραφή κώδικα από ένα μπορεί να το κρατήσει έξω από οποιαδήποτε κατηγορία). Πάντως μπορεί να ελαφρύνει κάπως η κατηγορία καθώς κάποια πρότυπα που εμφανίζονται εκεί μπαίνουν μέσω άλλων μεταπροτύπων, και δεν είναι και τόσο σωστή η κατηγοριοποίηση, π.χ. τα Location maps ουσιαστικά δεν είναι πρότυπα πλοήγησης.

Τέλεια! Ευχαριστώ!

Σίγουρα δεν είναι κάτι σημαντικό. Αλλά κάθε λεπτομέρεια μας βελτιώνει. Προτείνω να μπει αυτός ο σχετικός κώδικας, ώστε, τουλάχιστον, να μην προστεθούν κι άλλα που δε χρειάζονται εκεί. Και σιγά σιγά θα αφαιρούνται κι όσα δε γίνεται να αλλάξουν με την αλλαγή του κώδικα, που λες. Ασήμαντο μεν, καλό δε να γίνει κι αυτό. Και αυτό που λες... να φύγουν και τα Location maps.

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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15:31, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
  • Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
  • Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
  • Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
  • The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
  • Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
  • Q40000000 was created
  • Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
  • Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
  • Query examples:
    • Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
    • Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
    • Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
    • Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
    • Software developers by number of software titles (source)
    • Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints

• Development
  • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
  • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
  • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:36, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 (UTC)

Δες λίγο το Πρότυπο:Σύνδεσμοι λήμματος, δουλεύει καλά ακόμα και για μεγάλες σελίδες αλλά για τα λήμματα τύπου εκζ (π.χ. Χρήστης:Gts-tg/εκζ/α που έχουν χιλιάδες συνδέσμους είναι κάπως αργό οπότε δεν μπορεί ακόμα να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τον υπολογισμό συνόλων εκεί αντί του bot σου καθώς θα έπερνε κοντά στο ένα λεπτό για να υπολογίσει και τις 24 σελίδες γραμμάτων σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Ακόμα και όπως είναι τώρα είναι χρήσιμο για διάφορα πράγματα, ωστόσο εξακολουθώ να βλέπω πως μπορεί να γίνει ταχύτερο, πες μου εάν σκεφτείς κάτι (π.χ. κάποιο caching κάπου).

Κοίταξα για το αν υπάρχει κάποια τέτοια αναφορά μέσω του API, αλλά δεν υπάρχει. Από ότι καταλαβαίνω το module ελέγχει την ύπαρξη λήμματος ένα προς ένα. Ακριβές αλλά ακριβό.

Μπορείς να τραβάς σκέτο το HTML της σελίδας για να μετρήσεις απλά πόσα είναι τα class="new". Προφανώς λόγω cache να μην είναι ακριβής ο αριθμός αλλά σε σελίδες μικρής κυκλοφορίας μάλλον δεν θα υπάρχει cache.

Ναι αυτό ακριβώς ήθελα να κάνω μέσω του module ώστε να αποφύγω να ελέγχω ένα ένα εάν υπάρχουν, δηλαδή κατά κάποιο τρόπο να κάνω render τον σύνδεσμο και να διαβάσω το αποτέλεσμα που προκύπτει ώστε να κάνω parse το class. Δυστυχώς δεν έπιασε. Η επόμενη ιδέα ήταν να πάρω απλώς το html όπως με το render παραπάνω για όλη την σελίδα και μετά απλώς να δω τα class names, αλλά δεν βλέπω να υπάρχει μέθοδος για να τραβήξει περιεχόμενο στο module.

Αργά ή γρήγορα θα βρεθεί κάποιος τρόπος. Όπως είναι τώρα δουλεύει χωρίς πρόβλημα για κανονικά λήμματα όσο μεγάλα και αν είναι (κάνει περίπου 1 δευτερόλεπτο, και είναι χρήσιμο για χρήση σε πράγματα όπως π.χ. Πρότυπο:Πρόοδος) αλλά για πολλαπλή χρήση σε ειδικά λήμματα με χιλιάδες συνδέσμους είναι μάλλον αργό.

Ουσιαστικά σε ότι αφορά τα ΕΚΖ αυτό σημαίνει ότι η μικρή πρόοδος (της σελίδας) μπορεί να αυτοματοποηθεί μέσω του προτύπου/module. Το πρόβλημα είναι με την μεγάλη (τα σύνολα) (Χρήστης:Gts-tg/εκζ/α).

Μου φαίνεται overkill πάντως, καθώς και η ίδια η σελίδα στην οποία συμπεριλαμβάνεται το module είναι πιθανό να είναι cached. Οπότε και πάλι δεν θα υπάρχει βεβαιότητα ότι ο αριθμός που εμφανίζεται είναι ακριβής την δεδομένη στιγμή και δεν είναι cached από την προηγούμενη ημέρα (εκτός αν ο αναγνώστης κάνει purge).

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Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around.

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Επέκταση της λίστας παρακολούθησης για την εμφάνιση όλων των αλλαγών" in your preferences and see if it helps.

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat.

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22:15, 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
  • Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
  • ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
  • Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
  • The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
  • When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: congrats to علاء
  • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
  • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
  • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
  • Query examples:
    • The most famous painting from each country (source)
    • Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
    • Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
  • Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

• Development
  • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
  • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
  • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
  • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
    • Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 (UTC)

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror.
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page.

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page.
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:09, 28 Αυγούστου 2017 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: علاء
  • New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
  • Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
  • Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
  • A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
  • The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
  • Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
  • Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

• WikidataCon
  • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
  • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
  • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
  • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q38000000 was created
  • Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
  • Query examples:
    • number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
    • QID milestones by date
    • Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
    • Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
    • Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
  • Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

• Development
  • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
  • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
  • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
  • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
  • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:34, 28 Αυγούστου 2017 (UTC)

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon.
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences.
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed.
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files.
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:00, 21 Αυγούστου 2017 (UTC)

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
  • Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
  • The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
  • More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
  • Query examples:
    • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
    • Shortest streets in Moscow
    • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
    • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
    • Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
    • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
    • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

• Development
  • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
  • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
  • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:57, 21 Αυγούστου 2017 (UTC)