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CEE Newsletter - November 2017
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Volume 1 • Issue 2 • November 2017
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- Armenia report: InterWiki Women Collaboration; 3 in 1
- Austria report: Winners of the WikiDaheim photo competition 2017 have been announced!
- Bashkortostan report: News feed for November
- Bulgaria report: Media transparency and wildlife on focus
- Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU
- Finland report: Wikimedia Suomi board 2018, Wiki Loves Monuments and Suomi 100
- Germany report: Working together for a global movement – Supporting the volunteer supporters
- Greece report: From monuments to gender gap and beyond & from 8-year-olds to senior citizens
- Hungary report: Agreement with the University Library
- Latvia report: Wikipedia reaches 80 000 articles
- Macedonia report: Wiki Loves Food and WWII editathon in Macedonia
- Poland report: Celebrating Wikipedia milestone, WikiVacations 2017 results, and participation in the Digital Humanities
- Romania report: 380.000 articles and a Europeana prize
- Serbia report: Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia
- Ukraine report: Celebrating Wikipedia milestone, Wiki Loves Monuments pictures illustrating books, and Lady in Red project on Ukrainian Wikipedia
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:17, 2 December 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
- It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [1]
- You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [2]
- There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).- Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [4]
Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [5][6]
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 December at 19:30 (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 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
- The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [7]
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17:50, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
CEE Newsletter - November 2017
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Volume 1 • Issue 2 • November 2017
Contents • Single page view • Subscribe
- Armenia report: InterWiki Women Collaboration; 3 in 1
- Austria report: Winners of the WikiDaheim photo competition 2017 have been announced!
- Bashkortostan report: News feed for November
- Bulgaria report: Media transparency and wildlife on focus
- Estonia report: Digital Humanities Conference held as Part of Estonian Presidency of Council of the EU
- Finland report: Wikimedia Suomi board 2018, Wiki Loves Monuments and Suomi 100
- Germany report: Working together for a global movement – Supporting the volunteer supporters
- Greece report: From monuments to gender gap and beyond & from 8-year-olds to senior citizens
- Hungary report: Agreement with the University Library
- Latvia report: Wikipedia reaches 80 000 articles
- Macedonia report: Wiki Loves Food and WWII editathon in Macedonia
- Poland report: Celebrating Wikipedia milestone, WikiVacations 2017 results, and participation in the Digital Humanities
- Romania report: 380.000 articles and a Europeana prize
- Serbia report: Wikipedia workshop against human trafficking in Serbia
- Ukraine report: Celebrating Wikipedia milestone, Wiki Loves Monuments pictures illustrating books, and Lady in Red project on Ukrainian Wikipedia
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:13, 4 December 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
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8Finstead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [8] - A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [9]
- If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [10]
- Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [11]
- Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (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 12 December at 19:30 (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 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.
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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017
editWelcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!
- Community updates
- There was a IRC Office Hour about Structured Commons on November 21. You can read the log here.
- Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
- NEW: Participate in a survey that helps us prioritize which tools are important for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey runs until December 22. Here's some background.
- NEW: Help the team decide on better names for 'captions' and 'descriptions'. You can provide input until January 3, 2018.
- NEW: Help collect interesting Commons files, to prepare for the data modelling challenges ahead! Continuous input is welcome.
- Join the community focus group!
- Do you want to translate messages and information about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
- Sandra presented the plans for Structured Commons during WikidataCon in Berlin, on October 29. The presentation focused on collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities. You can see the full video here.
- Partners and allies
- We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
- Research
- Research findings from interviews and surveys of GLAM project participants are being published to the research page. Check back over the next few weeks as additional details (notes, quotes, charts, blog posts, and slide decks) will be added to or linked from that page.
- The Structured Commons team has written and submitted a report about the first nine months of work on the project to its funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 53-page report, published on November 1, is available on Wikimedia Commons.
- The team has started working on designs for changes to the upload wizard (T182019).
- We started preliminary work to prototype changes for file info pages.
- Work on the MediaInfo extension is ongoing (T176012).
- The team is continuing its work on baseline metrics on Commons, in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of structured data on Commons. (T174519)
- Upcoming: in the first half of 2018, the first prototypes and design sketches for file pages, the UploadWizard, and for search will be published for discussion and feedback!
- Stay up to date!
- Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
- Subscribe to this newsletter to receive it on a talk page of your own choice.
- Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday, February 13, 18.00 UTC in wikimedia-office webchat.
Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)
Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 16:32, 13 December 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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
- When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [13]
- Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
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 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
- The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.
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15:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
The CEE Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2017
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Volume 1 • Issue 3 • December_2017
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- From the team
- Regional report: CEE photos among the international winners in WLE and WLM
- CEE in the news
- Armenia report: Meetings, trainings and public campaigns
- Austria report: Christmas biscuits in a lightbox!
- Bashkortostan report: Wiki conference, events, and publication of a freely licensed poetic book
- Croatia report: Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth & 180 000 articles
- Czech Republic report: Annual wikiconference, GLAM projects and Wikidata workshop
- Hungary report: Towards the future of libraries
- Macedonia report: Wiki Camp Berovo 2017 and the Winners of DARM Challenge 3
- Romania and Moldova report: Establishment of The Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group
- Serbia report: The Museum of Yugoslavia opened its doors for the Wiki community
- Ukraine report: Lady in Red results, WLM, CEE Spring and WSC awards
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