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Wikidata weekly summary #43
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Development
Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([1][2][3])
Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
Working on property parser function for the client
Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
Resumed work on linked data interface
References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See this blog post for details and more dates.
Open Tasks for You
Test statements on the [demo system before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
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Wikidata weekly summary #45
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
Ability to add items to claims by their ID
Better handling of deleted properties
More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
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Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:
Metric
Control group
Teahouse group
Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)
5.02 weeks
8.57 weeks
1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited
58.7 articles
116.9 edits
2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits
36.5 edits
85.6 edits
2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits
129.6 edits
360.4 edits
2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)
182.1 edits
532.4 edits
2.9x total edits
Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper
Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.
Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)
-- Ocaasi and the rest of the Teahouse Team 20:43, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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