Usually but my computer is running extremely slow and sensitive so I have my gadgets disabled. I'm guessing you were looking at the Recent Changes :P. -- Cheers, RileyHuntley07:58, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, thanks for the message, I was working with a very slow connection and I didn't realize I didn't complete it, fortunately someone else took care of the entry. --Cruccone (talk) 12:10, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I think that the user didn't understand how Wikidata items work, so he create it thinking that he can make a list of all colours' in italian. So i think that the page should be deleted as Koavf did. Regards. :-) Restu2009:48, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I didn't think they knew how Wikidata works either so I though it would be best to speak someone who could speak italian instead of confusing them even more. Anyways, thanks for looking into it. -- Cheers, RileyHuntley14:16, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Per your request, I've made you a sysop. You will need to follow local procedure to extend past three months. Also, I offer my sympathies for your loss. MBisanz (talk) 02:55, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I am aware that I deleted Q93337 without leaving a deletion summary (test page, user created two) because I accidentally hit the enter key. Thanks for your patience. -- Cheers, RileyHuntley19:58, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for not writing earlier. I am delighted that someone took interest to contribute here in Macedonian. I made the changes, some of which were substantial, but a good part is just style and conventions that are accepted as the norm in the pragmatics of the language, and yet others that have become establlished in our wiki-community. As I said before, I am very happy to have a collaborator here and will be at your disposal any time you need me. By the way, I'm interested to know whether your familiarity with the language is due to family heritage or some other association and/or learning? Regards --B. Jankuloski (talk) 06:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry about not replying earlier! I am also glad to know other folks that speak Macedonian, it is always nice to have some one to proof read work, as you did. I started learning (still am! slowing..) Macedonian at the end of high school a few years ago when I met some exchange students from Macedonia. Thanks again. -- Cheers, RileyHuntley06:15, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I saw that you edited some English system messages, such as MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-denied. Some of these edits don't look like customization that is specific to Wikidata, but like corrections in the punctuation and wording that can be beneficial to all users of MediaWiki and its extensions. Such changes should be made in the source code and not as fixes in the local messages. You can request such fixes in Bugzilla or in the Support page of translatewiki.net, and if you are comfortable with Git, you can just ask for Developer access and then submit them yourself. Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:56, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, sorry for the late reply (Been busy!) I don't really feel comfortable filing the bugs (haven't filed many bugs) and such but if you think it should be done, feel free to do so. Sorry, -- Cheers, RileyHuntley04:21, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I made some changes in the source code. Can you please check them? I like correct grammar, but English is not my native, and it's quite possible that I made some mistakes. When you have some time, please take a look at these two links:
They look quite like similar to Wikipedia diff pages, but show the English messages as they appear in the source code. Please let me know if my changes are OK.
Hi there, Riley. This whole thing looks interesting. Not sure how much I'll get into it, but after today's affairs, something a bit less intense than Wikipedia seems like it might be a nice respite. Mind looking after me, to make sure I don't screw things up too badly? Thanks. — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 04:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well first, if you plan on using that signature, log in with User:F&A and create a redirect here since your signature redirects. You seem to be doing really good, I just need to update myself on capitalization of titles and descriptions. I'll ping you in IRC soon to talk further. -- Cheers, RileyHuntley06:37, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
Refactored sites code to improve design
Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
Added lots of new Selenium tests
Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
Implemented new change dispatcher script
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Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
Open Tasks for You
Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
Hello! Please note that the confirmation vote for your adminship on Wikidata is scheduled to take place from Feb 17 to Feb 21. You should create a nomination statement at Wikidata:Administrators/Confirm 2013/6 before the beginning of the vote. Thank you! Regards --Iste (D)13:36, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
Hello, Could you please restore this page (Jean Poldo d'Albenas) with its history, I want to add an item. This is the page I want to follow to understand Wikidata. I want to add more items later. Thankyou. (genium✉) 22:23, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
Ability to add items to claims by their ID
Better handling of deleted properties
More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
Thanks for giving your input at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/VIAFbot. As suggestions started coming in, I thought it'd be nice to have a small IRC meeting planning the bot task specifics together. If you want to be a part of the meeting please fill out this doodle poll, and I'll set up the rest of the meeting. Tentative agenda:
Which Authorities data to use
What to do for Data Conflicts
What should be written to Wikidata for maximum phase 2 re-use
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
Created initial QueryStore interface
Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
Improved handling of deleted properties
Further work on replacement for current search box
More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
Selenium tests for multiline references
Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
Selenium tests for language-table
Implemented in-process caching for entities
Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
Improved error reports from the API
Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
Added a table of content to item pages
Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
Finished implementation of References-UI
Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
Support for multi-line references in diff view
Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
Selenium tests for qualifiers
Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
Discussions/Press
Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)
Hi Riley. I haven't edited here before, so I figured I'd bring this to you. I noticed that there are 2 entries for the same Russian writer, Konstantin Konstantinovich Olimpov:
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
Worked on improving recent changes code in client
Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Hi, please stop making changes to other user's comments; what I mean is changes like [8] (which by the way, was reverted a minute later by the user who made the comment) [9] and [10] (especially in this case because the user has already read the message and now you have the user thinking they have a new message; but they just have your pointless edit) So please stop, the edits are unnecessary and in some cases, annoying. -- Cheers, Riley19:13, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
Thank you for point out my errors and sorry for not getting them all the first time (I got caught up in the middle of something) -- Cheers, Riley14:28, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Done -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 23:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 04:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
