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Luna Park was an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Luna Park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west. Luna Park opened in 1903 and operated until 1944.
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The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).
I recently came across these arrogant comments on a talk page and I find that they examplify what I hate about Vietnamese history the most, it is the sheer arrogance and lack of maturity that usually finds its way to almost any discussion about almost any minor thing about Vietnamese history. For context, judging by how well the user "KomradeRice" seems to understand the topics of Vietnamese history plus their user name I can only assume that they are Vietnamese but because they seem to have a "wrongthink opinion" on the whole "Chinese identity issue" they get such a reply. This actually isn't too different with any side of any issue of debates surrounding Vietnamese history, with user "Laska666" constantly calling them reverting anything they don't like with "reverting ip vandalism" and the constant arguing I have seen on the Facebook I can say that I am not a fan how most "historical ideologues" interact with others.
This mentality is also very prevelant with the whole Overseas Vietnamese Vs. Vietnamese-Vietnamese online wars, both Republic of Vietnam loyalists and Socialist Republic of Vietnam nationalists constantly argue and claim that the other side "isn't authentically Vietnamese" and using their own twisted forms of logic they are both right. As a good example as how Communist Vietnamese Nationalists view "the yellow flag" people just read this hilarious peace by a Vietnamese openly mocking human rights and free speech advocacy. I am used to this coming from the Chinese as having lived in China whenever one asks a Chinese person anything about why something in China is the way it is the only remark one can expect is "You are not Chinese, you cannot understand" as is the arrogance of all Chinese Cultural Countries, in South Korea and Japan my experiences weren't too different.
I'm not saying that other countries don't have people with such mentality, I have met plenty of American, German, and Dutch nationalists that tell me or others similar things when discussing their history, maybe only Americans with such a general sense of arrogance but the Germans only when it concerns their modern sycophanty surrounding an obsession of apologising for the holocaust while hypocritically ignoring the worse slaughter of tens of millions of Slavs by the same German government. But I don't think that I have ever come across groups as sensitive towards their whole identities than the Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese. Simply mentioning that people in the past might have seen the world differently from today got user "KomradeRice" an unmatched immature rant, what is worse is that in actual Vietnamese academic circles the reactions aren't too different, as modern nationalist thought completely eclipses any rational academic investigation and scrutiny of historiography.
It took some time for me to realise but I am genuinely convinced that "Vietnamese history is a religion" where rather than investigation being the base of the narrative, the narrative is formed by dogmatic "Essentialisms", this isn't too unlike most historiographies created in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and especially World War II (Two), after the latter "borders became holy" and people obsess over the shapes of modern borders. Anyhow, this is extremely visible in Vietnamese ultranationalism that always loves to draw the map of Vietnam with the South China Sea islands and somehow makes most of Vietnamese history into a propaganda tool to claim these islands.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.
Problems
Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [1]
Changes later this week
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar).
Future changes
You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [2]
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).
The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.