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You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
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Volume 4 | Issue 5 | May 2018
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Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)
Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
Started planning for support for Senses
Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
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I thought I'd better give you a heads-up just in case any of the infoboxes where you've used WikidataIB throws an error and somebody asks you why. As the module is the same as the one on Commons which we seem to have debugged, I'm hoping there won't be much in the way of problems. If you're currently using the sandbox for its functionality in any infoboxes, you may want to move them over to the main module now. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 18:40, 13 June 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-06-13T18:40:00.000Z","author":"RexxS","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-RexxS-2018-06-13T18:40:00.000Z-Just_updated_the_main_WikidataIB_module","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2018-06-13T22:40:00.000Z-RexxS-2018-06-13T18:40:00.000Z"]}}-->
Thanks, that's a good step forward. I don't actually have much time right now, but I'll try to keep an eye on things and improve the templates with the new functionality when I get the chance. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:40, 13 June 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-06-13T22:40:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2018-06-13T22:40:00.000Z-RexxS-2018-06-13T18:40:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
There will be an IRC Office Hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information, including time and date conversion, is available on Meta. There is no set topic, you are welcome to bring any discussion that you would like to the office hour.
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This Month in Education
Volume 4 | Issue 6 | June 2018
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.
The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.