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You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
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moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)
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Please don't template me! Everybody makes mistakes, and this user finds user warning templates impersonal and disrespectful. If there's something you'd like to say, please take a moment to write a comment below in your own words.
To be Replaced. --Donald Trung (talk) 10:37, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
@Zanhe:, I wanted to suggest adding the regnal years of Chinese and Vietnamese Emperors to pages like "1890" which is already done at the Mandarin Chinese Wikipedia, for example at the page "w:zh:1890年" it reads "清光緒十六年;日本明治二十三年;越南成泰二年" , now the Japanese date is already on the English Wikipedia, but the Chinese and Vietnamese regnal years ain't.
The Chinese calendar currently used isn't the one contemporary people used in their day-to-day lives and many official documents and banknotes from this era used regnal years. What page that I am allowed to edit can I suggest such an inclusion? --Donald Trung (talk) 12:28, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
I agree the Chinese/Vietnamese era names should be added to the year pages just like the Japanese ones. The "year in various calendars" box is transcluded from Template:Year in various calendars. I have no idea where the template pulls its data from. You can post a question on the template talk page. -Zanhe (talk) 00:27, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
@Zanhe: Thank you, I will contact the maker later. --Donald Trung (talk) 05:57, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
@Zanhe:, I am not allowed to edit "Module:" And "Module talk:" Namespaces because of that thing with the emoji's and appealing to Cyberpower678 doesn't work anymore as they are unresponsive, if there was another sysop I could appeal to I would, but I am pretty sure that I will never be allowed to ever edit "Module:" And "Module talk:" Namespaces ever again. --Donald Trung (talk) 14:17, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
I see Mr. Stradivarius has been inactive lately and hasn't responded. The main module could be easily adapted from the Japanese one, and the hard part is to compile the data, which would be difficult especially for Chinese eras which lasted 2000+ years, including centuries of division when multiple era names co-existed simultaneously. If you could find a way to deal with that, you could create the data module in your user space and ask Stradivarius to move it to module space after it's been tested. -Zanhe (talk) 01:55, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your edit restriction, I think you can appeal to the involved admin(s) as you've been a constructive contributor in the 18 months since your last block. Even indefinitely blocked users can request unblocking after 6 months per WP:SO. -Zanhe (talk) 02:00, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
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