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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

{{talkarchive}} --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:37, 1 December 2019 (UTC) .

Tech News: 2019-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • Some edits that used the visual editor were not working. This has now been fixed. [3]
  • Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The developers are working on the problem. [4]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 September. It will be on all wikis from 26 September (calendar).
  • You will be able to read but not to edit an important number of mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes on 24 September at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [5]
  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on 26 September at 05:00 (UTC). [6]

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Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 and 7 might not be supported in the future. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They would not get security support. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them makes the wikis less secure for everyone else. [7]

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20:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #383

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
    • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
    • More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
    • More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
    • Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

United Statesian banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from iCollector
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons. this image might be a duplicate, should investigate ir. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:40, 1 December 2019 (UTC) .

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:39, 30 November 2019 (UTC) .

Standard source layout

  • [ ], iCollector ([ Ecosia search] / [ Source image]).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:39, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Continental_currency

Look for duplicates here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Continental_currency

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:41, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Look for February 2, 1776 specific duplicates. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:43, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Numismatics newsletter - December 2019

The WikiProject Numismatics newsletter
Issue IX

Read the full newsletter here

Article of the Month

Template:TFAIMAGE The Kalākaua coinage is a set of silver coins of the Kingdom of Hawaii dated 1883, authorized to boost Hawaiian pride by giving the kingdom its own money. They were designed by Charles E. Barber, Chief Engraver of the United States Bureau of the Mint, and were struck at the San Francisco Mint. The issued coins are a dime (ten-cent piece), quarter dollar, half dollar, and dollar.

No immediate action had been taken after the 1880 act authorizing coins, but King Kalākaua was interested and government officials saw a way to get out of a financial bind by getting coins issued in exchange for government bonds. Businessman Claus Spreckels was willing to make the arrangements with the United States in exchange for profits from the coin production, and contracted with the US Mint to have $1,000,000 worth of coins struck. Originally, a 121⁄2 cent piece was planned and a few specimens were struck, but it was scrapped in an effort to have uniformity between US and Hawaiian coins, and a dime was substituted. The coins were struck at San Francisco in 1883 and 1884, though all bear the earlier date.

The coins met a hostile reception from the business community in Honolulu, who feared inflation of the currency in a time of recession. After legal maneuvering, the government agreed to use over half of the coinage as backing for paper currency, and this continued until better economic times began in 1885. After that, the coins were more eagerly accepted in circulation. They remained in the flow of commerce on the islands until withdrawn in 1903, after Hawaii had become a US territory. Template:TFAFULL

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Today's Featured Article November 28

Template:Main page image The Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar was a commemorative fifty-cent coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1920 and 1921 to mark the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. It was designed by Cyrus E. Dallin. Massachusetts congressman Joseph Walsh was involved in joint federal and state efforts to mark the anniversary. He saw a reference to a proposed Maine Centennial half dollar and realized that a coin could be issued for the Pilgrim anniversary in support of the observances at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The bill moved quickly through the legislative process and became the Act of May 12, 1920, with the signature of President Woodrow Wilson. Sculptor James Earle Fraser criticized some aspects of the design, but the Treasury approved it. After a promising start, sales tailed off, and tens of thousands of coins from each year were returned to the Philadelphia Mint for melting. Template:TFAFULL

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Banknotes to check

  • Local issues of the Confederate States of America.
  • Free banking in territories of the United States of America.
  • Early colonial banknotes of the Thirteen (13) British colonies in North America.
  • Unofficial issues.
  • Banknotes of Louisiana (including colonial issued banknotes).
  • Early Californian banknotes.
  • Reconstruction era banknotes in the former Confederate States of America.
  • American era Cuban banknotes. It was an American protectorate, not a colony.
  • iCollector auction archives.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:51, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

New Yorkian banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from eBay
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:59, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Standard source layout

  • [ ], eBay ([ Ecosia search] / [ Source image]).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:32, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Massachusetts Bay Colony banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from eBay
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons.


--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:59, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Standard source layout

  • [ ], eBay ([ Ecosia search] / [ Source image]).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:32, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

United Statesian banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from eBay
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons.

---Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:32, 30 November 2019 (UTC) .

Standard source layout

  • [ ], eBay ([ Ecosia search] / [ Source image]).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:32, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #393

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
  • Development
    • Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
    • Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
    • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
    • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
    • Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
    • Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
    • Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2019-49

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Recent changes

  • Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [8]
  • Advanced item The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [9]

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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Upcoming change to search - using the search bar will always go to results

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T235263

As you may recall, several years ago the wikis got a new search engine. Search has overall greatly improved the quality of life since release, but unfortunately it was never optimized for some of the sites like Commons.

There is an upcoming change related to this. Currently, when you use the search bar at the top of the page, if there is an existing page on Commons for that word the user will be taken to that page instead of the search results for the word. For example, if I come to Commons to look for a picture of a dog, I'll put "dog" in the search box. Instead of getting the results from Special:Search/Dog, I get the page Dog. This was not intended behavior for Commons; going directly to the page is behavior intended for Wikipedias. The intended behavior for Commons is what Special:Search does, which is present a list of potential matching files in addition to links to the page Dog. To be clear, when searching after this change, you will still be presented with the link to the page Dog as your first option.

This change will not be alone, there will be more changes in the future to how search is served on Commons. The benefit of manually curated pages when search results are messy can be clear, but it leaves out a significant amount of media. By making some changes over time, cleaning up the search results page will be beneficial. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Texian banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from various sources
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons.

RAW LINKS 🔗.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:29, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Standard Source Layout

  • [ ] ([ Ecosia search] / [ Source image]).

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:34, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

2019 US Banknote Contest

US Banknote Contest
November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 23:30, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

HANDY LINKS 🔗.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 20:43, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Rules

Scoring

Participants earn points for uploading images of United States banknotes. Images are scored as follows:

Imported images

Each imported image is worth 5 points times the sum of any applicable multipliers.

Multipliers
New images

Each new image is worth 5 points times the sum of any applicable multipliers.

Images that feature both the obverse and reverse of a banknote are worth double points.

Multipliers
  • x5 tf the image is promoted to featured picture status on any Wikimedia project.
    • x10 if that project is Wikimedia Commons or one of the top 10 Wikipedias.
  • x10 if it has appeared or is scheduled to appear on the main page of any Wikimedia project.
    • x20 if that project is Wikimedia Commons or one of the top 10 Wikipedias.

Eligible images

In order for an image to be counted and scored in this contest, it must meet the following criteria (see examples):

Specified rules relates to the images themselves _ Eligibility

  • It must be free:
    • 2D scans of official denominations US currency of are not eligible for copyright.
    • Works originally published before 1924 are on the public domain (this includes banknotes).
    • Otherwise, the work is on the public domain if it was created in the United States and the creator has been dead for 70 years.
  • It must not be a duplicate of a series/variety that is already on commons unless;
  • It must not be digitally altered in any way.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 12:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Texian banknotes to import to Wikimedia Commons from Banknote.ws
(2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons)

This is a list 📃 of images of banknotes to import for the 2019 US Banknote contest on Wikimedia Commons.

--Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:57, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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