Hello all, A quick reminder that today, March 13 at 18:00 UTC, we will hold a Bug Triage Hour session dedicated to the fixes implemented for date parsing and how it could affect your languages as well.
More information and links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour See you there! Best, Léa On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 19:29, Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Following up on this issue on date parsing in the Czech language, we would > like to invite you to join the upcoming *Bug Triage Hour online meeting > on March 13th*, where we will look at the changes induced by this fix > together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and > identify some possibly remaining issues. > > Phabricator ticket where you can already add comments if you noticed > issues in your language: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221097 > More information about the session: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour > Collaborative notes: > https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataBugTriageHour > > See you there! > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 14:02, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> We will soon deploy some fixes for date parsing that especially affect >> Czech and possibly other languages as well. >> >> Wikidata’s parsing of dates in the Czech language has long been affected >> by some issues (T221097 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221097>), >> where some reasonable representations couldn’t be parsed (e.g. 01.02.2023), >> while others were parsed incorrectly: for example, 11.12.2023 (11 December >> 2023) was parsed as 12 November 2023, and 07.05.1997 (7 May 1997) bizarrely >> became 30 June 1997. >> >> Matěj Suchánek >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek> has >> investigated these errors and implemented a solution, which will be >> deployed on February 15. As far as we can tell, all the changes it produces >> are positive: that is, if the way a date is parsed changes, then the old >> behavior was bad, and the change is an improvement. Nevertheless, it’s >> possible that some users expected the old behavior, or that some external >> programs might even be broken by the change. Users who add time data to >> Wikidata should make sure that the date shown to them as a result of their >> edit is correct. If you want to test the behavior changes, the new code is >> already live on Beta Wikidata. >> >> We are currently looking into other languages that may be affected as >> well. >> >> If you have any questions or want to provide feedback please leave us a >> comment on this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221097>. >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Mohammed Sadat >> *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin >> Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 >> https://wikimedia.de >> >> Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. >> Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, >> Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now >> <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >> sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! >> https://spenden.wikimedia.de >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. >> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter >> der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für >> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list -- [email protected] >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/7IBCKU5NENLSQWAI2OJZUX4O6WBN5CPE/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > > > -- > Léa Lacroix > Community Engagement & Events Consultant > Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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