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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

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Books & Bytes

 

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%

Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC

New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers

Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors

Tech scoped: Spec'd out a reference tool for linking to full-text sources and established a basis for OAuth integration

Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting
...Read Books & Bytes!

Thanks for your help and advice.

Bill Likelihoodist (talk) 14:27, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #93

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This week's article for improvement

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File:Oseberg ship head post.jpg
An animal-head post found in the Oseberg vikingship, an example of Nordic art
Hello, Tom Morris.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Nordic art

Previous selections: Gopher (animal) • Meal

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Posted by: Evad37 [talk] 01:02, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (  ). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
  • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [6]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [7]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [8]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [9] [10]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [11]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [12]

Problems

  • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [13]
  • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [14]
  • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [15]

Future software changes

 
Orange bar with new messages
  • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [16] [17]
  • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [18]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [19]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [20] [21]

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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikibreak

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For the next two weeks, I am on holiday and am going to try and take a wikibreak for the duration. I will have internet access but I intend to spend very little time on wiki-related matters. If there is an issue with any of my admin decisions, feel free to ask another administrator to have a look at it. I'd advise you to not do anything stupid but if you are the sort of person who does stupid things, you won't listen to me. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:18, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Please see

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this edit. You were right, in the end. GreaseballNYC (talk) 02:09, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #94

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This week's article for improvement

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The Low Countries as seen from space
Hello, Tom Morris.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Low Countries

Previous selections: Nordic art • Gopher (animal)

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Tech News: 2014-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [22]
  • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [23]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [24]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

Future software changes

  • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [26]

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09:47, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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UKIP & Guns

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Thankyou for your edit re gun ownership on the UK Independence Party page. While what you have added was well sourced, it is not suitable for Wikipedia as it is not ecyclopedic. Indeed your edit was not factually correct as Mr Farage did not unveil this as official policy. Indeed he stated in the same interview that UKIP had "a blank sheet of paper". While your edit is news worthy, Wikipedia is not a newspaper. You may wish to familiarise yourself with this section of wikipedia policy. Many Thanks Owl In The House (talk) 13:08, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Financial Transparency Coalition article

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Hi Tom, I made some edits to the Financial Transparency Coalition article which I hope will address your concerns about citation. Wherever there was an external source available for a statement, I included that citation rather than the organization's website. I hope this will address your concerns.

Fleming1974 Fleming1974 (talk) 21:36, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2014)

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The life sciences involve the study of living organisms
Hello, Tom Morris.

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Life sciences

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Tech News: 2014-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
  • Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [27] [28]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [29] [30]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [31]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [32]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [33]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [34]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [35]

Future software changes

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #96

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Blogs/Press
    • See the office hours logs at meta
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • See the FOSDEM slides
    • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
  • Development
    • More work on badges by Bene*
    • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
    • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
    • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
    • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
    • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
  • Monthly Tasks

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2014)

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This staircase is an impossible object
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Impossible object

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Tech News: 2014-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
  • The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [46] [47] [48] [49] [50]
  • You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [51]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [52] [53]
  • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [54] [55] [56]

Problems

  • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [57]
  • On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

  • Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [58] [59]
  • You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [60]
  • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [61] [62]
  • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [63]
  • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [64] [65]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [66]
  • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [67]
  • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [68] [69]
  • If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [70]
  • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [71]
  • bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [72]
  • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [73]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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