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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

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• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

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• Essay: Delete the junk!

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• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
    • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
  • Papers
    • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
      • Add coordinates of an institution
      • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
      • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
    • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
    • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
    • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
    • Education of French prefects (source)
    • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
    • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
    • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
    • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
    • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
  • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:52, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #537

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 Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
    • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
    • All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
  • Job opening:
    • Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
    • External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
  • Query examples:
    • Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
    • Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
    • Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
    • Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
    • Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
    • Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
  • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VIII, August 2022 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign in Albania and Kosovo in 2022 Australia report: Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney Brazil report: In-person and online activities hosted by Brazil during Wikimania 2022 Estonia report: Summer in WMEE - from collecting professors´ portraits to new potential co-operations Germany report: Coins and paintings by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Indonesia report: 4 Islands Outreach; Digital Clippings; Balinese Wikisource Competition Italy report: Italian institutions ever closer to Wiki Loves Monuments Kosovo report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign and Wikivoyage Netherlands report: West Africa in the Van der Kraaij Photo Collection 1972-1987 New Zealand report: A Wikipedian at Large Poland report: The summary of GLAM editing contest and the end of residency at the National Museum in Cracow; Cooperation with Wawel Royal Castle; Hack(art)hon for Zachęta Portugal report: Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata Serbia report: Contemporary Art Edit-a-thon and Wikipedian in residence at the Historical Archive of Negotin Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Uniforms, images from New Sweden, colonial officers, the map book of Fryderyk Getkant, and more!; Swedish general election 2022 UK report: Culturally diversifying Wikipedia Uruguay report: Wikimuseos & editing clubs in Uruguay USA report: Wikimania, Meetups and More AvoinGLAM report: Crisis & GLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Tools; Helpdesk; IGO/INGO Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: New tool in development utilizing Structured Data WMF GLAM report: Capacity building for Bophana Center Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #538

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • بوٹ دا عثمان
      • Task/s:
        • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
        • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
    • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
    • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
  • Papers
    • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
    • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
    • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
    • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
    • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
    • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
      • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
      • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
    • ContribuLing 2021
      • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
      • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
      • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
  • Dataviz
    • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Presentation
    • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

• Tool of the week
  • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
    • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
    • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
    • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
    • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
    • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
    • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
    • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
    • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
    • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
    • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
    • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
    • Cause of death of US presidents by party

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
    • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
    • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
    • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
  • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
  • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
  • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

On the grounds of copyright violation, Primefac has recently deleted blockquotes in about 23 Wikipedia articles created by (or contributed to) by Suslindisambiguator.

If Primefac's accusation of copyright violation is valid, then I think that I should be banned completely from Wikipedia. In your opinion is Primefac correct about the accusation of copyright violation? Suslindisambiguator (talk) Suslindisambiguator (talk) 07:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@Suslindisambiguator I'm sorry, I don't know what these accusations are - I'm not sure why you're asking me. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:28, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your response.

Please examine the "View history" entries for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Arundel_Rogers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Percy_Ault

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsey_Renshaw Suslindisambiguator (talk) Suslindisambiguator (talk) 21:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@Suslindisambiguator I would agree that I don't think those are appropriate uses of blockquotes - in the Rogers example, almost half the wordcount is direct quotes from external sources. There is a big difference between a substantial quote where it is unavoidable - we're directly quoting a primary source, or a critical review, or similar - and where we're just copying a third-party article wholesale, which can and should be avoided.

Simply adding a citation does not get around copyright issues, and I think Primefac is entirely right to be concerned about this.

You may want to have a look at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text, which tries to set out some guidance for what is and is not appropriate. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:23, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Point taken. Suslindisambiguator (talk) 11:33, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 🧵 Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • JhsBot 6
      • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
    • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
    • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Presentations
    • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
  • The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
    • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
  • Query examples:
    • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
    • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
    • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
    • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
    • Song titles that match female given names (source)
    • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
    • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
    • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
    • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
    • Software license, by year (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Hiking trails

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
  • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
  • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

• Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content

• Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Wikidata weekly summary #540

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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