[Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour on January 21st

Hey folks :) I'll be doing another office hour to talk about all things Wikidata. As usual I'll give an overview of the past 3 months and what's ahead. It'll be in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. It'll be on January 21st at 17:00 UTC. For your timezone please see

[Wikidata] weekly summary #190

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Events /Press/Blogs - Ongoing: 32C3 - Upcoming:

[Wikidata] property value max lenght? (aka: why doesn't this InChI fit??)

Hi all, I just discovered that there seems to be a limit on the length of property values... some properties for compounds, however, are longer, the InChI being a good example... 400 chars is not enough for some compounds in Wikipedia, like teixobactin (Q18720369) This length is not defined

[Wikidata] Place name ambiguation

I'm pretty sure ambiguation is not a word, but what are the guidelines on removing disambiguation information from names/labels of items. Usually this disambiguation information was added to a Wikipedia article name to enforce their uniqueness requirements, but Wikidata has no such need and the

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T121135: Banners fail to show up occassionally on Russian Wikivoyage

Jdlrobson added a comment. Thanks for clarification @Wrh2 I'm puzzled about what's going on here. Are there any other extensions deployed that may be tinkering with the table of contents? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121135 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T114474: More flexible and modernized Recent Changes code

GWicke added a comment. @aude: Which questions would you like to resolve at the summit? Do you think this topic could also be reasonably discussed in a regular RFC meeting? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114474 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Project Column] T121999: Enable Extension:WikidataPageBanner on Ukrainian Wikivoyage

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task to monitoring on the Wikidata workboard. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121999 WORKBOARD https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/ EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Assigned] T112987: Separating infoboxes and navboxes from article content

RobLa-WMF assigned this task to cscott. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112987 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: cscott, RobLa-WMF Cc: Liuxinyu970226, tarlocesilion, Candalua, Izno, Susannaanas, StudiesWorld,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T121291: increase timeout of composer for php-composer-test

gerritbot added a comment. Change 260731 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)): Correctly exclude disabled PHPCS rules https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260731 TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121291 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Subscribers] T121563: Should be possible for banners to come from PageImages extension

bmansurov added subscribers: phuedx, bmansurov. bmansurov added a comment. The patch looks good. @phuedx, would be kind enough to review it too? I don't feel like merging something I'm not very familiar with well. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121563 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Project Column] T98145: [EPIC] Lead images (WikidataPageBanner integration) to stable

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task to monitoring on the Wikidata workboard. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98145 WORKBOARD https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/ EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Project Column] T122381: Provide a way to curate and fetch titles (short descriptions) for media files

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task to needs discussion or investigation on the Wikidata workboard. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122381 WORKBOARD https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/ EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T103102: [Story] Take in other projects sidebar out of beta features

Herald added a subscriber: JEumerus. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Shizhao Cc: JEumerus, Romaine, Jheald, Matanya, Glaisher, aude, Nemo_bis, Addshore, Snaevar, Mbch331,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Subscribers] T118397: Add bzip2 support to DCAT-AP description of dumps

Lokal_Profil added a subscriber: hoo. Lokal_Profil merged 1 task(s): T122500: dcat.rdf should also list the bzip2 compressed dumps. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118397 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lokal_Profil

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T42358: [Epic] Wikidata changes in article history

Ash_Crow added a comment. Hi, I was thinking: would it be possible to have a distinct 'super-history' page that includes the changes made to all transcluded content (templates, data from WD, transcluded articles, images (both local and from Commons), without cluttering the normal history page?

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T42358: [Epic] Wikidata changes in article history

Lydia_Pintscher added a comment. Definitely something worth exploring! TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42358 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lydia_Pintscher Cc: Oliv0, Ash_Crow, Sylvain_WMFr, ThierryCaro, 0x010C,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Created] T122512: Wikidata issues break addWiki.php

Krenair created this task. Krenair added a subscriber: Krenair. Krenair added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance, Wikidata. Herald added a subscriber: Aklapper. TASK DESCRIPTION ```Exception encountered, of type "Wikibase\Client\Usage\UsageTrackerException" [2e25ac28] [no

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Created] T122520: Error running `extensions/Wikibase/lib/maintenance/populateSitesTable.php --force-protocol https` on jbowiki

Krenair created this task. Krenair added a subscriber: Krenair. Krenair added a project: Wikidata. Herald added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Aklapper. TASK DESCRIPTION ```jbowiki: A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php after upgrading? See:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T115996: [Task] Use package manager

Christopher added a subscriber: Christopher. Christopher added a comment. Question: Why is not the GUI a completely independent project / repo / build /deployment from WDQS? One reason to not have to do a full maven build for every GUI patch can be seen here:

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Created] T122513: Another Wikidata issue with addWiki: Cannot spawn child: PopulateSitesTable

Krenair created this task. Krenair added a subscriber: Krenair. Krenair added projects: Wikidata, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance. Herald added a subscriber: Aklapper. TASK DESCRIPTION Cannot spawn child: PopulateSitesTable Fatal error: Class 'PopulateSitesTable' not found in

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Updated] T110648: [Bug] high-ranking items seemed to have dropped significantly in Special:Search results for wikidata

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: WMF-deploy-2016-01-12_(1.27.0-wmf.10). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110648 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: dcausse, ReleaseTaggerBot Cc: gerritbot, Sjoerddebruin, EBernhardson, aude,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T121135: Banners fail to show up occassionally on Russian Wikivoyage

Wrh2 added a comment. I'm not aware of any other TOC extensions. I suspect that the behavior may occur during the weekly(?) Mediawiki software updates. Is it possible the banner extension isn't enabled until after the cache has started rebuilding following a software update? TASK DETAIL

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Changed Subscribers] T121135: Banners fail to show up occassionally on Russian Wikivoyage

mark added a subscriber: mark. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121135 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mark Cc: mark, Wrh2, Sumit, Jdlrobson, Atsirlin, Aklapper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Lydia_Pintscher, Arlolra,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T115996: [Task] Use package manager

Jonas added a comment. I already proposed that, so +2 from my side. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115996 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jonas Cc: Christopher, Smalyshev, JanZerebecki, StudiesWorld, Aklapper, Jonas,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Unblock] T18976: Wikis waiting for creation (tracking)

Krenair closed blocking task T122062: Create the wikimania2017 wiki as "Resolved". Herald added a subscriber: JEumerus. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18976 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Krenair Cc: JEumerus, greg,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T115996: [Task] Use package manager

JanZerebecki added a comment. > Why is not the GUI a completely independent project / repo / build > /deployment from WDQS? Good idea. Nobody did the work yet. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115996 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T110648: [Bug] high-ranking items seemed to have dropped significantly in Special:Search results for wikidata

EBernhardson added a comment. main patch is now reviewed and merged. The change to operations/mediawiki-config to make the new profiles available is mergable but needs to be done after the deployment freeze is over. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110648 EMAIL PREFERENCES

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Edited] T102476: RFC: Requirements for change propagation

GWicke edited the task description. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102476 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: GWicke Cc: Addshore, RobLa-WMF, StudiesWorld, intracer, Qgil, JanZerebecki, brion, Ltrlg, Anomie, Milimetric,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T115996: [Task] Use package manager

Smalyshev added a comment. The reason why it was in the same project was that it is part of the full service package. But we could split out the component and import it using regular maven dependency handling, so that should not be a big issue. I propose making an new ticket for this. TASK

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T102476: RFC: Requirements for change propagation

GWicke added a comment. @janzerebecki: The current intention is to keep change propagation relatively simple and efficient. Many services can be implemented with very small relative per-request overheads, and services with high per-request overheads can consider applying opportunistic batching

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Unblock] T73295: [HHVM] Get rid of class aliases

thiemowmde closed blocking task T74042: Get rid of class aliases in diff/diff as "Declined". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73295 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lydia_Pintscher, thiemowmde Cc: Wikidata-bugs,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Declined] T74042: Get rid of class aliases in diff/diff

thiemowmde closed this task as "Declined". thiemowmde claimed this task. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74042 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: thiemowmde Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, Wikidata-bugs, Tobi_WMDE_SW, JeroenDeDauw,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Declined] T74043: Remove class aliases from data-values/geo

thiemowmde closed this task as "Declined". thiemowmde claimed this task. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74043 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: thiemowmde Cc: adrianheine, Lucie, Aklapper, Wikidata-bugs, Tobi_WMDE_SW,

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Unblock] T73295: [HHVM] Get rid of class aliases

thiemowmde closed blocking task T74043: Remove class aliases from data-values/geo as "Declined". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73295 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lydia_Pintscher, thiemowmde Cc: Wikidata-bugs,