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Wikibooks mapping to Wikidata items - DEPLOYMENT IS TUESDAY

Please take a look at Wikidata:Wikibooks/Development, and give your feedback on how we should handle Wikibooks interwiki links. The deployment is this Tuesday, so we really need to get this in order very quickly! Rschen7754, sent by --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #146

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Wikidata weekly summary #147

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Aditional option on Reforming administrator inactivity criteria RFC

Just to let you know after a comment made by User:Ajraddatz on Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Reforming_administrator_inactivity_criteria I have added another option (50 mainspace / project edits & 5 admin/crat actions over 6 months). As you voted for 50 mainspace edits & 5 admin/crat actions over 6 months I thought you might like to know incase you are not watching the page and want to alter your comments / adjust which you prefer! ·addshore· talk to me! 00:48, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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Activity note

I'm on an extended sabbatical from Wikimedia for a few months to take care of real-life matters. I'm hoping to be back around May or June. I may come by and check on things, but I cannot guarantee a timely response. --Rschen7754 02:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

:( I understand everyone has real life matters and obligations. But anyway, I hope to see you back soon. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 13:39, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
As an update, I've been checking in regularly, and have done quick tasks, but have been lacking the motivation to do anything substantial. Unfortunately, it will probably be this way for several more weeks. --Rschen7754 04:23, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata:Requests for comment/Opting out of Global sysops 2

A RFC has been started in regards to allowing global sysops to continue to perform admin actions on Wikidata. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #155

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
    • Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
    • Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
    • Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
    • Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
    • Improvements to calendar handling
    • More work on RDF export for query service
    • Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
    • Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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  • Events/Blogs/Press
Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

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Wikidata weekly summary #163

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  • Discussions
    • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
  • Development
    • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
    • Worked more on unit support
    • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
    • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
    • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
    • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
    • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
    • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
    • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
    • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
    • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
    • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
  • Monthly Tasks
    • Hack on one of these.
    • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
    • Help develop the next summary here!
    • Contribute to a Showcase item
    • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
    • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Wikidata weekly summary #164

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Oversight request

Could my IP address in all of the edits I've made with (Redacted) be oversighted, as well as this request when you're done? I believe this to be safer than divulging my email address, as it is unclear whether emails to Oversighters are retained indefinitely. Thanks in advance. Alakzi (talk) 16:26, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

@Alakzi: Oversight emails are indeed retained indefinitely as far as I know. However, it is nearly always worse, regardless, to make a request in public. Also, the edits in question do not fall under our oversight policy and so will most likely not be oversighted.--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:58, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
They obviously do fall under your Oversight policy: "This includes hiding the IP data of editors who accidentally logged out and thus inadvertently revealed their own IP addresses." It is also considered poor form to argue with someone who's expressed privacy concerns. Alakzi (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: I mean, you did not have to post about it here and we would've never known they were yours. The most I can do is revdelete the fact that the IP made those edits. The contents of the edits themselves will stay.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
@Jasper Deng: I did not ask for the content of my edits to be oversighted. :-) I'd appreciate it if you did that. Please revdel my original post here as well, which contains my IP. Alakzi (talk) 19:42, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Both done.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:43, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. Alakzi (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
@Alakzi: Done, but I agree that it is much worse to make this request in public - not only does this make the request visible to the 26 people who watch this page, mirrors, Google indexing, Wikimedia Labs replicas (for a time), etc., but I also did not see this request for several hours (I only check Wikidata once or twice a day), whereas the email system notifies me and the two other oversighters immediately via email. If you are concerned about privacy, I would set up a separate Gmail account for Wikimedia.
@Jasper Deng: We actually do oversight IP addresses on request, if the link is sufficiently clear - please let us make the call next time as to whether or not something should be oversighted. --Rschen7754 04:50, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Oh, and for the record the emails that are archived on OTRS are only accessible to current Wikidata oversighters and OTRS admins. Sometimes individual oversighters may have copies of them in their inboxes if they want to be emailed (this improves response times since otherwise we would have to log into OTRS to see tickets). When I step down from being an oversighter, I will be deleting all my copies of such emails (where reasonable; I won't be disassembling my automated backups to make sure that every last trace of the emails are gone). --Rschen7754 04:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #166

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