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Coraline Ada Ehmke is a software developer and open source advocate based in Chicago, Illinois. She began her career as a web developer in 1994 and has worked in a variety of industries, including engineering, consulting, education, advertising, healthcare, and software development infrastructure. She is known for her work in Ruby, and in 2016 earned the Ruby Hero award at RailsConf, a conference for Ruby on Rails developers. She is also known for her social justice work and activism, the creation of Contributor Covenant, and promoting the widespread adoption of codes of conduct for open source projects and communities.
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Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (
phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl.
phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and
phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
More work on the consistent design system
More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
Testing the first prototype of the
Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (
phabricator:T257625)
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Recent changes
Users can
thank others for their edits.
Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify
sock puppets who harass others using thanks.
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Problems
Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.
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Changes later this week
Wikis that are not for one specific language can
translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (
calendar).
Future changes
Wikimedia code review plans to use
GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.
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Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with three legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic.
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Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the
Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
Upcoming:
Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with
Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx)
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Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13
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Upcoming:
Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
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Recent changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help
in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News
2020/24 and
2020/26.
Problems
There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
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Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
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Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a
browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details
on Phabricator.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (
calendar).
Future changes
There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.
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Recent changes
The
Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
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The first features of the
Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your
local or
global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned.
Feedback is welcome.
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
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Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
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Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (
calendar).
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Liam Wyatt on WikiCite and its future plans, ways to get involved, and discussions that are happening in the community, 28 July.
Agenda
Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour with a focus on the Query Service, July 21st.
Notes of the discussions
Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #14, August 1
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Library’s linked-data project gets new grant. "Known as Linked Data for Production, the project is part of a long-term collaboration among Cornell University Library, Stanford Libraries and the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Through linked data, information about books and other items in library records will be enhanced by related information from external online sources". By Jose Beduya
Wikidata Training Workshop 1, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association
Part 1 - Introduction to Wikidata - YouTube (
En,
Fr)
Part 3 - Components of a Wikidata item - YouTube (
En,
Fr)
Video: Wikidata Lab XXIV on relative digital positioning (in Portuguese).
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Video: Women Writers in Review: Integrating special collections into Wikidata.
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Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx)
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Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (
phabricator:T258241)
Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (
phabricator:T256857)
Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (
phabricator:T253812)
Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing