User talk:Donald Trung/Archive 101

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Tech News: 2019-21

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

Problems

  • File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [1][2]
  • Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [3][4]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [5]
  • Advanced item The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [6]


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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Possibly extract files from here. 📁

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:44, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Extract the following:

  • Tian Qing Yuan Bao (天慶元寶) .
  • Da Kang Yuan Bao (大康元寶).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:51, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

HongPing Taels (Hang Ping Hua Bao) banknotes to import to WikimediaCommons.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 14:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #365

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
    • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
    • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
    • More work on mobile termbox
    • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Re:Angela Criss gender

I don't know for certain, but I'm fairly sure that this person is male, given the context of some of their edits at en.wiki (including a number of personal attacks). I don't know what it is with their "multiple personality" issues or obsession with using gender-specific usernames (including both males and females) but after observing their edits and comments, I concluded that this person is probably a guy. (Incidentally, his current social media username is also "Jack Gaines".) LightandDark2000 (talk) 06:50, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@LightandDark2000: , that makes sense, thank you for clarifying. Then I'll be using gender neutral pronouns when tagging them in the future. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 06:53, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 82 Wikimedia Nederland


Nieuwsbrief van mei 2019
Reisbeurzen voor Wikimania | Wiki goes Caribbean | Wiki TechStorm 2019...

Oude versies vindt u hier
Info over nieuwsbrief · Inschrijven/Uitschrijven · Global message delivery · Germien Cox (WMNL) (overleg) 27 mei 2019 11:40 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #366

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
    • Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)
  • Development
    • Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
    • Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
    • Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
    • Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
    • More work to get termbox ready for deployment
    • Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.



Tech News: 2019-22

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

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [7][8]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2019

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Volume 8 • Issue 5 • May 2019

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About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 07:16, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Chinese Kèpèngs en afbeeldingen

@Quistnix: ,

Kan jij mij een bericht op deze overlegpagina (of die op de NLWiki) sturen wanneer je klaar bent met alle artikelen over Chinese Kèpèngs? Dan kan ik de missende (of is het "ontbrekende"?) afbeeldingen in de lijsten van Chinese Kèpèng-munten bij inscriptie plaatsen. Ik heb al een groot aantal nieuwe afbeeldingen op Wikimedia Commons kunnen uploaden en ben al een paar maanden klaar met alle vrije afbeeldingen van Chinese Kèpèngs, Chinese amuletten, Etc. Naar Wikimedia Commons te importeren, maar laatst had Andrew West (BabelStone) weer een aantal nieuwe afbeeldingen van Khitan-munten geüpdatet dus groeien die categorieën nog steeds. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:52, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Winkelcentrum de Triade logo's to import

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:30, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Assen-Alert! stuff to import to Wikimedia Commons.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:27, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Reminder : "Commons Certified Partner™ ".

Remember to work on a "Commons Certified Partner™" proposal for verifying companies and/or websites interested in donatig their works to Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:13, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome at my incubator. What would it entail? Who's gonna register the trademark? - Alexis Jazz ping plz 09:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: , good that you asked, as I'm quite busy I might forget more than half of my original proposal before I "put it to paper" (digital paper, of course) so it would be wise to write ✍🏻 down here what I have come up with in some broad terms.
I think that either the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) or Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) will register it if it's ever necessary, but it will be the same kind of trademark as already exists for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia logos.
The project itself will be verified through an OTRS-like system, the OTRS itself, or another kind of system (hopefully something more public) and will have a WikiPhonebook where either company accounts and/or employee accounts are listed, paid editors would not necessarily have to disclose their volunteer accounts and contact details will be for transparency's sake. This WikiPhonebook could essentially be like the yellow pages and could be at "Commons:Commons Certified Partner/Partners" organised alphabetically and employees as sub-pages of their companies.
There could be "a special badge" with the logo that people could place on their websites that would link to the "Commons:Commons Certified Partner" (or their dedicated sub-page) to both advertise their donations and the partnership programme itself. Companies can then show that they care about sharing knowledge freely and it would be free advertisement for Wikimedia Commons itself.
Every company could have their own maintenance category like "Category:Media contributed by Business Inc." or "Category:Media contributed by Museum LLC" which would be a sub-category of "Category:Media contributed under the Commons Certified Partnership programme".
Furthermore I was thinking of making it similar to the "Wikipedian in Residence" (WiR) programme where schools and other educational institutions could become Commons Certified Partners and introduce students to how Wikimedia Commons works and what they can do with the website. I know that Wikidata has a similar programme already and millions of pages have been donated thanks to third (3rd) party donors so such a programme could be greatly beneficial for the availability of free knowledge on Wikimedia Commons too.
Your feedback would be highly appreciated. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 10:36, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't have too much to say about it right now. I'm not fully clear on the advantages for partners and what will drive contributions. (besides caring about free knowledge) Why would anyone hire a Commons partner? And what would be the criteria to become a Commons partner? What about scummy companies that try to become a Commons partner? - Alexis Jazz ping plz 18:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

The thing is that honestly I don't have the time to draft and write ✍🏻 this proposal to the level I want and I will have probably forgotten more than half of it by the time I will finally have to time to work on it. I am working on a huge project at the English-language Wikipedia. I have to balance work, family 👪🏻, lots of volunteering, Wikimedia Commons photography, Wikimedia Commons uploading, and drafting the huge Manchu Qing Dynasty paper money project on the English-language Wikipedia, this proposal simply doesn't make the list(, yet). The thing about huge projects on Wikipedia is that they always split into many smaller articles and get theur own navigational template and often require more work on Wikimedia Commons looking for related images of the subjects at hand. I deliberately postponed this project and procrastinated around it writing about all Chinese paper money up until the Ming Dynasty simply because the information ℹ and the sources for this period are overabundant. I draft proposals in my Microsoft Outlookk e-mail 📧 client and have so many Manchu Ing Dynasty paper money drafts that if woUld start working on this now that it would drown in the other drafts and disappear. Of course this idea 💡 should be something that is actually feasible otherwise it will be wasted.

How do you draft? Do you do it systematically? Do you have planned future proposals based on proposals that you need to have adopted before you go further or do you just address an issue after you run into it yourself? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:59, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Uhm I'll go with answer D. All of the above. For more complex proposals like yours, a systematic approach is best. If you can type fast, just write down your entire stream of thought first. If not, go right to step two: reduce the stream of thought to two things: 1. What is the goal of this idea? 2. All key points without details. (I rarely publish that step) What needs to be done, advantages, disadvantages, possible problems. Once you have that, you can start writing something in a more coherent story form.
Sometimes I put proposals on hold because something else needs to happen first. Depends on the proposal. Currently a lot is on hold because simply time.
Sometimes I run into something and it's not too complex. In that case I can go right ahead, like with the convert-to-DR thing. But I misjudge that more often than I'd like. - Alexis Jazz ping plz 18:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
    • @Alexis Jazz: , great! more than half of it is already done, time to think of some improvements to the current system, maybe I should just initially propose to introduce the "Commons Certified Partner™ " badge for websites and/or organisations to help promote Wikimedia Commons to various institutions. Let's be honest, smearing a Creative Commons logo and a (spam)link to the Creative Conmons website on literally every Wikimedia page greatly helps promote that company, if we have a similar system where institutions feel "rewarded" for donating their works "to us" (to the world, actually) then this would give more incentive to others to join. We just have to convince the marketing departments that donating their works will be beneficial to them and expose them to more potential customers. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 17:22, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
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