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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

• News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

• Essay: No queerphobia

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

• Concept: Palimpsestuous

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This Month in GLAM: May 2024

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue V, May 2024 Headlines Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Kruja; Traditional Albanian food photography competition Brazil report: Open licensing guide from Midiateca Capixaba; Activities in Rio de Janeiro; First batch from LabDOC; New batch from NeuroMat; Hercule Florence photowalk Czech Republic report: International discussion on the role of media and new GLAM partnership on the horizon India report: Digitization concludes for Behar Herald and a digitization workshop held for libraries in Maharashtra Italy report: Edit-a-thons Kosovo report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Kruja & Traditional Albanian food photography competition Netherlands report: WikiconNL 2024 New Zealand report: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions project and 1Lib1Ref Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland in May Portugal report: The Search for the Lost Manuscripts Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Our first Igbo language article Ukraine report: Article campaigns for Ukrainian librarians, partnership with a national library USA report: WikiPortraits & Edit-a-thons Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group May monthly highlights GLAM Wiki Meta pages revamp: GLAM Wiki Meta pages kicking off the Working Group WMF GLAM report: Introducing Alice Kibombo, a new dataset, and more Calendar: June'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 #631

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-10. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
  • TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
  • Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
  • EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
• WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
• Videos
  • (es) How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
• Notebooks
  • Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
  • Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

Tool of the week

• Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Vikidia ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
  • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
  • Burgenwelt (Burgenwelt; castles)
  • construction time ({{Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times | de = <!-- Die Bauzeit bezieht sich auf die Zeit, die benötigt wurde, um ein Gebäude zu errichten, was manchmal länger, gerade früher, als ein Jahr brauchte --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
  • Nom dans la langue locale ()
  • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, AllGame style ID, MoFo ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, FC Metz player id, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID, itch.io numeric ID, produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet, Phasmida Species File taxon ID, Psocodea Species File taxon ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv studio ID, filmas.lv person ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Elonet company ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average height of people named Joe
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
  • Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate (Q11415564) by French universities.
  • HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
  • OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
  • Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
  • Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
• Newest database reports: Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
• Showcase Items: Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
• Showcase Lexemes: bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

Development

• The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
• Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (phab:T366871)
• EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (phab:T365686)
• Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (phab:T366236)
• Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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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Tech News: 2024-24

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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]

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