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I tried using your parliamentary diagram tool to fix a mistake on the Alaska Senate page. Nothing happens when I click the "Make my diagram" button after entering the correct number of Dems, Repubs, and independents. Is the tool working? Mirza Ahmed (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Mirza, thanks for reporting that! I see that one of the improvements that I made broke the US input tool. Until it's fixed (by the end of this week, for sure), you can use the standard input form, and put in the party names and colours by hand. --Slashme (talk) 05:23, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
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Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)
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.
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)
Hello Slashme, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.
Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!
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On the third screen of the wizard, there is a "description" box, where you can paste the legend template text generated by the parliament diagram tool. That's optional but recommended. You can also add any descriptive text there.
On the same screen, there's a box for "categories". I recommend that you add the category "election apportionment diagrams".
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.
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.
I see that you left a message about not managing to use the central login to upload images made with the parliament diagram tool, but then removed the message. Is everything working OK for you? --Slashme (talk) 18:22, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I’m trying to use the parliament creator tool [1], but I can’t get logged in to Wikimedia Commons it only says “Central login, You are centrally logged in. Reload the page to apply your user settings.” Can you please reply to tell me what I have to do to get rid of it. When I try to log in it just gives an error message. Thank you, — User:Social Studies Rules (talk) 21:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
I haven't seen this problem before. I'll be at the Wikimania hackathon next week, though, so I can ask around. Maybe if you could try again and make screenshots, this would help to debug the problem. --Slashme (talk) 07:04, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
Could I create a new account only on Wikimedia Commons with the Username, Social Studies Rules1, but my Wikipedia stays the same as Social Studies Rules? I want the problem to go away, I asked for help, nothing worked. --Social Studies Rules (talk) 11:17, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
@Social Studies Rules: That's definitely not the solution: usernames are global (used across all projects). I'd be surprised if it's something wrong with your account, and even if it is, the developers need to know what it is and fix it. I'd really like to see screenshots of your process, so that I can get a clear picture of what's happening and show it to the developers who'll be at the hackathon from 18 to 19 July. By the way, I noticed that the date in your signature above is from the future. Maybe Wikimedia Commons doesn't allow time travelers? --Slashme (talk) 05:38, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
I can’t give you screenshots because I don’t want to give you any information that are considered private. I have asked for help and no one can help me. That’s why I want to create a new account only on Wikimedia Commons.--Social Studies Rules (talk) 8:38, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
@Social Studies Rules: You could open a new private tab in a web browser, and when you take screenshots, you can crop them so that only the relevant part is seen, with no identifying information. However, if you can't do this for some reason, I'll still talk to my contacts next week: maybe they will be able to inspect the status of your username and your login history and figure something out. If you like, you can create a second username to see whether it works. As you can see here, global usernames are successfully uploading images using the tool every day, so it's something to do with your setup or your user rights, so I'd much rather diagnose the problem than simply get you able to upload by creating a new username. --Slashme (talk) 16:19, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
@Social Studies Rules: When you upload pictures using the upload wizard, you can only upload pictures to which you own the rights, or pictures that have already been released under a free license. You certainly don't need to pay to use the upload wizard! --Slashme (talk) 19:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Do I have to email the author if, I can use his/her picture and how do I know which license to put? It’s very strange on my mobile the login does not work, but computer it does work, I use mobile most of the time.--Social Studies Rules (talk) 18:22, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
@Social Studies Rules: if you want to use a picture by another author, there are two cases:
The picture is already under a free license, for example this one. At the bottom, you see the text "some rights reserved" which is a link to the Creative Commons license CC-BY-2.0 (generic attribution license). This means that the creator (John Greenfield) has released the picture under a license that permits anyone to re-use the picture, as long as he is cited as the author. Then you don't have to contact the author; you can just upload it, as long as you give the correct author information.
The picture is not under a free license, or you don't know what the license is. In this case, you don't just need to find out from the author what the license is; you need to give proof that the author has released the picture under a free license. The normal way to do this is for them to send an email to the Commons OTRS queue in which they license it under a free license, ideally using a suitable email template to make sure that all the important information is there. Here is an example of a picture that I got from another author and released using this method.
The other website is in Icelandic, which I don't understand, and even with Google Translate, I couldn't figure out the copyright status. You should send the question to ritstjori@althingi.is - they should be able to help you. --Slashme (talk) 18:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi again, I had a question on how can I upload a parliament diagram by making it look like this [5], I want to know how to upload it by using the same title like for example it was created by User:Conquistador-tea, then a new picture came in, which was created by User:JackWilfred, I want to create a new one and uploading a new version of the diagram. Can you please tell me how can I do the same thing as User:JackWilfred did? I went to [6] and I entered the information, and it says
File extension ".svg" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (image/jpeg).
Thank you
- Social Studies Rules (talk) 11:28, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
A new version of a file must be the same file type as the original. You're trying to upload a JPEG file over an SVG. If you're using the Parliamentary Diagram tool, they should download as SVG, are you converting them to JPEG afterwards? JackWilfred (talk) 16:38, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Social Studies Rules, you're not supposed to convert to JPEG. The diagram is an SVG file, and should remain an SVG file. JPEG should not be used for diagrams, only for photos. What User:JackWilfred was telling you was that the file that you were trying to upload, that is, the file that you had on your computer, was a JPEG, and that you clearly had the wrong file. --Slashme (talk) 09:52, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks!
Thank you for your great Arch-style diagram tool. It really does wonders. Simple and easy to use, allowing for any number, color or name. It's amazingly useful for the amount of pages of elections and houses from all over the world we found ourselves making on Wikipedia.
As for feedback the only problem I noticed is that I'm always having to autorise it again to post on Wikimedia, but that may be a problem on my side. Oh, and when doing all the different elections results of a house over decades of elections by just changing the number of seats, and there's suddenly a new far left party causing everything to be made from the start : it would be great if there was an option to add a party "in between" two already typed in. ;)
Thanks Aréat, that's very useful feedback. I am quite sure that the repeated authorisation is something between your Browser and the Wikimedia Foundation's servers, so I doubt that I can do much about it. A feature to put a party in between two others should be easy to add, but I won't have time to do it soon. Can you add it on GitHub? If you don't want to make a GitHub username, let me know and I'll add the issue. --Slashme (talk) 14:43, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)
Hello Slashme, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
June backlog drive
Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
New technology, new rules
New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
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EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)
Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
Skipping this one - lies outside my area of expertise and other better informed editors are already on the case. --Slashme (talk) 09:25, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #324
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Past: State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
![[5]](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slovenian_parliamentary_election,_2018_-_diagram.svg#mw-jump-to-license){kind=link}