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Tech News: 2022-29
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
The feature on mobile web for
Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week.
[1]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (
calendar).
Re:Capital of French Indo-China between 1939 and 1945
From what I know, Hanoi was still the official capital of French Indochina during this period. There were, however, indeed an idea and then a plan of making Dalat the federal capital of Indochina under Governors-general
Jules Brévié and
Jean Decoux, as being shown in Jennings' book Imperial Heights. You can
access it at Chapter 13 through the Wikipedia Library.
Greenknight dv (
talk)
19:11, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Greenknight dv, "Additionally, if you are currently blocked or banned from a Wikimedia project, applications to resources may be rejected or restricted. If you obtain a Wikipedia Library account, but a block or ban is subsequently instituted against you on one of the projects, you may lose access to your Wikipedia Library account.". Unfortunately I won't be able to apply for this privilege. -- Donald Trung (
talk)
19:25, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
The Sack of Shamakhi took place on 18 August 1721, when rebellious Sunni Lezgins, within the declining Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan province, Shamakhi (in present-day Azerbaijan Republic). The initially successful counter-campaign was abandoned by the central government at a critical moment and with the threat then left unchecked, Shamakhi was taken by 15,000 Lezgin tribesmen, its Shia population massacred, and the city ransacked.
(Please update the interwiki links on
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BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the
Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
[Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on
Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated.
Agenda
Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) -
YouTube
Tool of the week
User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.
Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (
phab:T313116)
Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (
phab:T313467)
REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (
phab:T307869)
We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (
phab:T312223)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (
targeted wikis).
[3]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (
calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens.
[4]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked.
[5]
Hi. I raised this issue regarding IPs overlapping a certain SPA at
User talk:Ohnoitsjamie#User and IPs making edits to Peacock Princess article. To recap, a few IPs edited the
Peacock Princess article back in March. All of them are from a range Ohnoitsjamie then blocked as being used by a Vietnam-related LTA. A new editor, Levanven60, has since been making edits to the article, as well as a few others, with a Vietnam focus. I'm wondering if the user's editing patterns match the LTA, which Ohnoitsjamie said you're more familiar with. Could you help look into this? Thanks. --
Paul_012 (
talk)
03:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
@
Paul 012:, I would say that it's possible but I wouldn't jump to accuse them. FPT Hanoi is the largest (government-owned) internet provider in Vietnam, when I was editing from Vietnam I was on the same range and if a person lives around the
Red River Delta they're likely to be editing from that range. This is also why rangeblocks of that range have to be taken with surgical precision. That aside going over their edits I don't immediately see that many correlations but noted some of
Unserefahne's idiosyncrasies, namely
starting a (nearly) blank user page and
creating the redirect "An Nam" as user "Unserefahne" is obsessed with (the name) Annam and tries to insert this name wherever they can.
However, this editor seems way
too competent to be "Unserefahne". But going over more edits I notice how they add categories even though they're not the main subject (for example
here,
here, and
here). The way they categorise categories is similar, namely
"Category name|FIRST LETTER". That is where some people organise categories as "Roads by country|United States" he would do "Roads by country|U".
But so far I wouldn't call this a clear case and I am inclined to be against blocking this user as they're not really disruptive as "Unserefahne" usually is. But from what I can tell I would suspect them of beign a sockpuppet of user "Unserefahne" within reasonable doubt. That is that they are very likely to simply be a new user, mostly as the field of interest is slightly different and I haven't ever seen user "Unserefahne" edit Myanmar-related articles. --
Donald Trung (
talk)
03:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. I guess we'll see if they continue with the problematic edits, and the usual route of dealing with such behaviour can be pursued if so. --
Paul_012 (
talk)
09:55, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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Lau Pa Sat, also known as Telok Ayer Market, is a historic building located within the Downtown Core in the Central Area of Singapore. It was first built in 1824 as a fish market on the waterfront serving the people of early colonial Singapore and rebuilt in 1838. It was then relocated and rebuilt at the present location in 1894. It is currently a food court with stalls selling a variety of local cuisine.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (
calendar).
This week, three meetings about
Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place.
See how to join.