Discovery October 2017

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Map preview now available at Wikidata.org
by Deborah Tankersley 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

As announced this past weekend, Wikidata is now 5 years old, congrats! [1] In that announcement I discovered something I hadn't know about before — that you can now add a small script to your account's common.js file on Wikidata.org to add a map to items that have coordinates. W00t! It was created by User:Aude and it adds an interactive map when you look at items that have coordinates. It's simple to use, just log into (or create an account) on wikidata.org, surf to your common.js and add in this detailed script. [3] I created a snapshot of what it looks like and uploaded it to Commons. [4] There is another similar script that User:Mxn created that is very similar but uses Overpass to generate the map. [5] Enjoy using maps in Wikidata! [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Aude [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Aude/mapview.js [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AScreenshot_of_a_Wikidata_map_scri… [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/User_scripts#overpass -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-23
by Deborah Tankersley 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hello all, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-23. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * Jan and Deb chatted with Release Engineering about the work that we're doing to automate updates to the Wikipedia.org portal and we have lots of new information to incorporate into the automation effort. [0] * Deb and Paul attended the State of the Map US conference in Boulder, Colorado held this past weekend (Oct 19 - 22) and Deb wrote up some of her favorite talks on the Discovery list. [1] [2] * The quarterly check-in for Technology:Search Platform was held last week, view the slide deck on Commons. [3] * The quarterly check-in for Audiences:Readers:Discovery was held this week, view the slide deck on Commons. [4] ==Discussions== === Search === * Erik fixed a rarely occurring issue where the ApiQuerySearch.php call to a member function termMatches() on a non-object (boolean) [5] * David turned off an A/B test for relaxing the retrieval query filter and analysis will begin soon [6] [7] * David also reviewed and update the mjolnir kafka implementation on large feature sets [8] * We ran a full re-index of un-fallbacked languages on Monday, Oct 23; everything went smoothly and we had made several notifications to the various communities about this minor change and more detailed information can be found on MediaWiki. [9] [10] * Stas improved field mapping for nginx logstash by adding a few field types [11] * Trey finished up a Language Analysis Morphological Library Research Spike and identified 6 languages that will be researched more deeply in the coming weeks [12] === Analysis === * Mikhail attended the Mobile App team's offsite last week and learned quite a bit about their processes and gave suggestions on how Analysis can help in the future. === Portal === * Jan fixed a minor issue with the dwell-time impact of `touch-action: manipulation;` on the portal [13] * We had help from the community on a minor bug with a licensing link in the footer, the code has been merged and will be in production with our next portal update, tentatively scheduled for Monday, Oct 30. [14] * After chatting with RelEng earlier this week, we decided to not do some of the work we had thought we needed to do in order to automate the portal updates. [15] * The name for Northern Sami needed to be changed on the portal from "Sámegiella" to "Davvisámegiella" - this change was done in translatewiki and will be in production with the next portal update, tentatively scheduled for Monday, Oct 30. [16] === Maps === * The maps team and various others have been chiming in on the best way to deploy meddo as part of tilerator-deploy—Gehel has gone ahead with a few patches that will replace direct dependencies with Kartotherian dependency and adding meddo and ClearTables as deployment dependencies, but more conversations might be needed. [17] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177350 [1] https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/ State of the Map US conference [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-October/001593.html [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Technology_department_quarterly_check-… [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audiences_2_check-in_Q1_October_201… [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167410 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177956 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177957 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178274 [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Disabling_Messaging_Fall… [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178530 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174002 [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178954 [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178554 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178981 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162241 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: [Engineering] Tech talk: Selenium tests in Node.js
by Deborah Tankersley 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

This might be interesting, as moving from Ruby to Node.js is one of our quarterly goals. :) Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Željko Filipin <zfilipin(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:59 AM Subject: [Engineering] Tech talk: Selenium tests in Node.js To: "Software quality assurance for Wikimedia projects." < qa(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development and Operations Engineers < engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers < wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> # Who 👨‍💻 Željko Filipin, Engineer (Contractor) from Release Engineering team. That's me! 👋 # What 📆 Selenium tests in Node.js. We will write a new simple test for a MediaWiki extension. An example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Node.js/Write # When ⏳ Tuesday, October 31, 16:00 UTC # Where 🌍 The internet! The event will be streamed and recorded. Details coming soon. # Why 💻 We are deprecating Ruby Selenium framework: https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/T173488 See you there! Željko Filipin _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering

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State of the Map US conference short recap
by Deborah Tankersley 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

Hi all, For those who were able to come to Boulder, Colorado for the annual State of the Map US conference this past weekend—thanks and I hope that you enjoyed the Colorado weather and hospitality! It was a really nice program <https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/> and it was especially cool to see more and more of the projects that the community has been chatting about and working on in their spare time finally come to life and are in production! All the talks on Friday and Saturday were videotaped <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE2k2Sp5L5rb6ntduG9dt0te>, and you can see lots of snapshots <https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=95444237%40N08&sort=date-posted-desc…> of folks at Folsom Field and a few of the evening socials. Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Disabling Messaging Fallbacks for Language Analysis
by Trey Jones 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

SUMMARY: The Search Platform team (formerly part of Discovery) is planning to fix a long-standing search bug on many wiki projects by disabling the code in CirrusSearch that re-uses the “fallback” languages (which are specified for user interface or system messages) for the language analysis modules (which are used to index words in search). Deployment is planned to start the week of October 9, 2017. Messaging fallbacks specify what language to show a message in when there is no message available in the language of a given wiki. A language analysis module is language-specific software that processes text to improve searching—so that, for example, searching for a given word will find related forms of that word, like "hope, hopes, hoping, hoped" or "resume, resumé, résumé" on English-language wikis. Fallback languages for system messages make sense for historical and cultural reasons—a reader of the Chechen Wikipedia is more likely to understand a user interface or system message in Russian than in French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, or Japanese—but the fallbacks don't necessarily make any linguistic sense. Chechen and Russian, for example, are from unrelated language families; while the languages have undoubtedly influenced one another, their grammars are completed different. We will deploy the software change that disables using messaging fallbacks for language analysis fallbacks in about two weeks (targeting the week of October 9, 2017), with any cross-language analysis exceptions explicitly configured in a new manner. Changes will not immediately happen to all affected wikis because each wiki in each language will need to be re-indexed, which is a separate process that takes time. There may also be other delays caused by Elasticsearch upgrades or other changes that need immediate attention. You can also track progress of the tasks on Phabricator[1] or read more, see examples, and get the full list of languages affected on MediaWiki.[2] [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147959 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Disabling_Messaging_Fall… Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-16
by Deborah Tankersley 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

This is the weekly update for the week starting '''2017-10-16''' ==Highlights== * Wikidata Query Service had a partial outage on 18 Oct 2017: a single client started to run an unusually high number of queries on WDQS and the overload was not prevented by our current throttling nor was it automatically detected and isolated—detailed information is on the mailing list. [0] * Discovery and Legal chatted on Oct 18 about supporting only CC0 data in the .map data namespace on Commons, in response to a community conversation; a detailed response will be prepared and released next week. [1] [2] ==Discussions== === Search === * We added more namespaces to the search results for Bengali Wikisource (Special:Search—add) [3] * David fixed an issue where users couldn't click on svwikisource search results when running a crosswiki search on svwiki; this will be in production during the week of Oct 24th [4] * David was also working on finishing up deployment-prep elasticsearch cluster to 5.5.x [5] * David launched the A/B test for testing the relaxing of the retrieval query filter using two different configurations (the test is expected to last a week) [6] * We wrapped up a series of adding content namespaces to wikis that were accidentally excluded from the default results of Special:Search (thanks to TheDJ for discovering this bug and to David for his quick fixing of the issues once the community consultation was completed by Chris K) [7] * Erik deployed a fix for when the rebuildtextindex fails when searchindex on InnoDB (no support for MyISAM) and it went into production on Oct 19 [8] === Analysis === * Mikhail finished up tasks related to establishing the baseline of metrics for SDoC—looking at querying databases [9] === Portal === * The Wikipedia.org portal page stats and translations were updated on Oct 19, 2017 [10] [11] === Maps === * MaxSem and Gehel fixed a weird bug where tileshell wasn't exiting after after being notified of updates, effectively stopping the OSM data in production from being regenerated; data updates are now back and running once a day [12] [0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-October/011280.html [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Proposal_… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154071 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178041 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177913 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178413 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177502 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177477 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177356 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177389 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-09
by Deborah Tankersley 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Hello all, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-09. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * After active discussions on Spanish Wikipedia, mapframe has been enabled on that site. [0] * * The discussion on English Wikipedia on whether to ask for mapframe to be enabled has been resolved with a consensus of 'yes' to support the use of this functionality on enwiki. [1] * There is an ongoing discussion on English Wikivoyage about the use of mapframe and a draft maps policy has been created. [2] [3] * There is a discussion on Commons about deletion requests, specifically about maps, user-derived work and licensing of that work. [4] * The Search Platform team had a long discussion on how to improve search relevance surveys and A/B tests, highlights from the meeting can be read in and we'll use the information discussed in future tests. [5] [6] ==Discussions== === Search === * Gehel finished the investigation into why elastic@codfw alerted during codfw row B switch upgrade, determined it was that a check done on the LVS endpoint ended up being routed to the server that had just recovered network connectivity. [7] * A 'fix' was released last week that actually had un-intended results on the search results page by adding an icon to every autocomplete result in the main dropdown. Thanks, @Jdforrester for the quick fix! [8] * Trey finished up and deployed code to not use Generic language fallbacks in Mediawiki for Elasticsearch language analyzers, once we re-index various small wikis, this code will be in production. [9] [10] * The A/B test running on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic has been stopped and is ready for analysis [11] [12] === Analysis === * Mikhail finished up the Interleaved Search Results A/B test analysis [13] * Chelsy fixed an issue where the dashboard was counting events, not sessions, for mobile web events [14] [15] === Portal === * Continuing conversations on the handling of Chinese languages on the Wikipedia portal with the community [16] === Maps === * Paul finalized a few map styling issues: tunnels; implement all osm-bright.tm2 features in brighmed [17] [18] * The regeneration of map tiles in production finished up on Oct 10 [19] * Mapframe has been enabled on Spanish Wikipedia [20] [0] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuestas/2017/Mapas_din%C3%A1micos [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Should_we_… [2] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#.7B.7BMapframe.… [3] https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Map [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Data_talk:Kual… [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155290 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215#3677637 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170378 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177659 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147959 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177490 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176493 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215 [14] http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#mobile_events [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176811 [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171647#3679370 [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154823 [18] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153400 [19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176252 [20] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177695 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R Cheers! -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: [Wikidata] weekly summary #282
by Deborah Tankersley 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Forwarding from the Wikidata email list. Read about brand new stuff in the Wikidata Query Service by Stas, as noted in the weekly summary: - Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT6TxLmaz9jC5SkTVJsI2vMbtpK…> by Stas Malyshev Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:39 PM Subject: [Wikidata] weekly summary #282 To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey everyone :) Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions - New request for comments: Association Football Matches <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Association_Foo…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: *WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017>*, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out) - If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events> and the birthday page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday> - A blog post <http://zone47.com/dozo/textes-daffiches-des-films-a-lire-sur-gallica> describing Textes d'affiches <http://textesdaffiches.histoiredelart.fr/#%21/>, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French) - Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT6TxLmaz9jC5SkTVJsI2vMbtpK…> by Stas Malyshev - Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSspElTEbYSnusd-9ROd-M3p3jW…> by Dario Taborelli - Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1937/paper2.pdf> Other Noteworthy Stuff - If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Com…> ! - Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week <https://www.mysociety.org/2017/10/12/join-the-glow-run-a-wikidata-workshop-…> with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017 - Inventaire now has a News section <https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/News> where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project - wikidata-cli <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli> added bot support <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/config.md#bot> and new commands (wd search <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…>, wd aliases <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…>, wd add-alias <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…>, wd remove-alias <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…>, wd set-alias <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…> ) - wikidata-edit <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit> added bot edits support <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit/blob/master/docs/how_to.md#bot-edi…> and new functions (alias.add <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit/blob/master/docs/how_to.md#add-ali…>, alias.remove <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit/blob/master/docs/how_to.md#remove-…>, alias.set <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit/blob/master/docs/how_to.md#set-ali…> ) - HarvestTemplates <http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates> has a new collaboration platform <http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates/share.php> - You can now use reCh <http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/> to patrol items from your PagePile Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Women's Sports Foundation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4377>, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4376>, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4375>, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4374>, National Trust Collections ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4373>, Infopatrimônio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4372>, KBO pitcher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4371>, KBO hitter ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4370>, Cairn author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4369>, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4368>, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4367>, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4366>, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4365>, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4364>, DSMHOF athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4363>, ASHOF athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4362>, ExecutedToday ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4361>, Monumentos de São Paulo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4360>, gravsted.dk ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4359>, Dutch lost building register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4358>, Musikverket person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4357>, Megalithic Portal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4356>, PROSITE documentation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4355>, Search formatter URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4354>, nominated by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4353>, BillionGraves cemetery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4352>, Cravo Albin artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4351>, salinity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4350>, Lotsawa House Indian author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4349>, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4348>, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4347>, T4T35 megalith ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4346>, excavation director <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4345>, QEdu ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4344>, WBPLN author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4343>, Store norske leksikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4342>, synodic period <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4341>, PubsHistory pub ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4340>, Organization ID on Radio Radicale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4339>, LOINC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4338>, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4337>, Lloyd's Register Ship ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4336>, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4335>, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4334>, GenBank Assembly accession <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4333>, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4332>, Department of Education and Skills roll number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4331>, contains <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4330>, Wikimedia template <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4329>, Brueckenweb id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4328>, BHL bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4327>, BFI-Filmography person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4326>, APA phoneme code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4325>, combination classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4324>, young rider classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4323>, best sprinter classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4322>, best combative classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4321>, mountains classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4320>, Elite Prospects staff ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4319>, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4318>, GARD rare disease ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4317>, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4316>, SwimSwam ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4315>, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4314>, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4313>, camera setup <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4312>, FOIH taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4311>, FOIH decree types ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4310>, FOIH event types ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4309>, FOIH value types ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4308>, FOIH heritage types ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4307>, FOIH periods ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4306>, FOIH styles and cultures ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4305>, FOIH materials ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4304> - Query examples: - Flags with more than 5 stars <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/918944978231054337>) - Timeline of programming languages <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0Aselect%20%3Flanguag…> (source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/919578602001391617>) - Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcount%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%…> (source <https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/917788771235528710>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Women <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Women> - Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Jean_…> Development - Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms) - Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia - Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references ( phabricator:T176863 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176863>) - Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177485>) - Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export ( phabricator:T121274 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274>) - The secondary wb_entity_per_page table got removed now ( phabricator:T140890 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140890>) - The secondary wb_terms table does have a term_full_entity_id column now (phabricator:T167114 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167114>) - Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library <https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavaScript> as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177476>) - Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library <https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseSerializationJavaScript> as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177613>) - Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library <https://github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavaScript> as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177232>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Fwd: [Analytics] Heads up: mw.track client-side EventLogging mechanism "ignored" certain events
by Erik Bernhardson 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

This might explain the unexpectedly low results from the explore similar test. Not saying he fix would ensure usage, but it seems we lost quite a few events. This problem also effects autocompletd data we dashboard, although I don't think we've used it for tests recently. Full text search analytics should be unaffected as they don't use the mw.track functionality. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sam Smith" <samsmith(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Oct 12, 2017 3:41 AM Subject: [Analytics] Heads up: mw.track client-side EventLogging mechanism "ignored" certain events To: "Analytics List" <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: o/ Prior to Thursday, 28th September, if your client-side EventLogging instrumentation logged event via mw.track, then only events tracked during the first pageview of a user's session were logged. Now, technically, the events weren't ignored or dropped. Instead, the subscriber for the "event" topic was never subscribed when the module was loaded from the ResourceLoader's cache and so events published on that topic simply weren't received and logged. This bug was discovered while testing some instrumentation maintained by Readers Web [0] and independently by Timo Tijhof, who submitted the ideal fix [1] promptly. -Sam [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175918 [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/378804/ --- Engineering Manager Readers Timezone: BST (UTC+1) IRC (Freenode): phuedx _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2017-10-02
by Chris Koerner 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello all, Here is the Discovery weekly update for 2017-10-02. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Highlights== * The week of October 9th, we will deploy code to disable the automatic use of UI message fallback languages for linguistic analysis. In most cases, the messaging fallback language is unrelated to the main language of a wiki (e.g., Wolof falls back to French). A fuller description is on MediaWiki, and you can join the discussion there or on the related Phab ticket. [0] [1] * The Analysis team had several meetings to scope out new work to establish a baseline of metrics for the Structured Data on Commons project. [2] ==Discussions== === Search === * Trey is investigating linguistic analysis software that could be adapted for use on wiki projects. If you know of any open-source linguistic analysis software for languages that don't already have it on their wiki projects, please drop a note on Phab ticket T171652. [3] * David was busy with various tasks: ** relaxing the default "AND" of the retrieval query filter with minimum_should_match [4] ** change loading of cross-wiki configuration to use cirrus-dump-config api call [5] ** finishing up the work to upgrade Elastica to support elastic 5.5.x (will be in production next week [6] ** and adding Special:Search—add additional namespaces to search results for Persian Wikibooks , Hebrew Wikisource, and English Wikibooks [7] [8] [9] * We also stopped the A/B test that was running on 18 wikis with > 1% of search traffic, analysis will follow [10] === Analysis === * Chelsy investigated the full-text search pattern on mobile web and found interesting things: "we think that since people use full-text instead of prefix search results when they have a in-depth information need, and this kind of need is often driven by work/school project, we see more full-text searches on weekdays than weekends on both desktop and mobile web." [11] === Maps === * Paul kicked off the process to regenerate the map tiles in production that will probably finish early next week. We had to do this manually because of a bug in tileshell/node.js that we're working to resolve. [12] [13] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Disabling_Messaging_Fall… [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147959 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174519 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177302 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156497 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174654 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176908 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176907 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176906 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177490 [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176815 [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176252 [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175123 --- Subscribe to receive on-wiki (or opt-in email) notifications of the Discovery weekly update. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Discovery_Weekly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer needed" in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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