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Tech News: 2023-39

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• The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
• The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
• Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

• New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [2][3]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Temporary RPPD request

Hello again. Wondered if you would be willing to drop these ten pages to Extended Confirmed temporarily for me to fix the WP:LINT errors on each? If any are not subject to temporary lowering, that is fine. I assume the same conditions as past similar requests, and will notify you when complete.

User talk:BuickCenturyDriver
User talk:The Pink Oboe
User talk:Sergeant Snopake
User talk:Tatababy
User talk:Dravecky
User talk:Eng.M.Bandara
User talk:MediaWiki default
User talk:Vintagekits
User talk:W. Frank
User talk:LarryMorseDCOhio

Thanks, and welcome back. Zinnober9 (talk) 13:55, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

@Zinnober9 I somehow missed this. Apologies. All done, but I will be restoring them when you're done (mainly due to bot spam, since these are actual talk pages, not archives.) Courcelles (talk) 15:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Not a problem, and I wasn't in a hurry. I am all done with these now, so back to full they may go. Thank you for your assistance! Zinnober9 (talk) 04:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

All restored. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 12:54, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Old IP indef

Hi, Courcelles. I'm going through old IP indefs. Special:Contribs/68.70.27.96 is the first CUblock I've gotten to. Does it still need to be blocked? If the answer is "yes", then that's that, but thought I'd ask. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 21:38, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

The SPI this was targeting has been inactive for a few years, so unblocked. Courcelles (talk) 12:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

September music

September songs

my story today

Our festival's last concert was most moving and inspiring, - also the story of Walter Arlen, - today I'm proud that I survived the decision in WP:ARBINFOBOX for 10 years, standing and singing -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Today's story is about a great pianist with an unusual career, taking off when he was 50. It's the wedding anniversary of Clara and Robert Schumann, but I was too late with our gift. Just for fun: when do you think did Mrs. and Mr. Schumann get their infoboxes, and by whom? (The answer can be found here, but please think first.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Both articles are 21 years old… so I’m guessing they got info boxes long ago? Courcelles (talk) 14:26, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Yes. But both after the Composers' RfC, and he even after the arbcase. And both no problem, no discussion, no revert, imagine ;) (and of course both not by me, - I made her GA much later) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Today I remember Raymond Arritt, who still helps me, five years after he died, per what he said in my darkest time on Wikipedia (placed in my edit-notice as a reminder), and by teh rulez. - Latest pics from a weekend in Berlin (one more day to come). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

I just got to hear a group of students practice a song about the aurora and dark Alaskan nights. While it is unbearably hot and humid and bright outside. Some days I wish I had the talent to really even hear music, much less produce it! Courcelles (talk) 17:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

But...

I wanted to know how the date turned out. Knitsey (talk) 22:51, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

ROFL! Courcelles (talk) 22:51, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

If you're still hanging around (or any tps), can you rev/del this [4] please? Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 23:04, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Done. And introduced to my block button. Courcelles (talk) 23:05, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 23:06, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Possible Masterofroblox sock

Could you check if PicassoPlent is a sock of Masterofroblox? They've started to use the AntiVandal script without rollback, which is something multiple previous socks did. The last sock I know of is JaioLang, which looks stale, but maybe there's some newer data that could be used. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 19:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, good lord… who was it, they’re filed under a different master, that was doing exactly this this Spring? No hard CU proof, but that’s not a newbie. Courcelles (talk) 22:15, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

I think it's the same person as DoubleBaconBap, Malaruxus, and GettingRoofedFaYah (I can't remember if these are all one group of socks or not), but those are all stale and there's not much behavoural evidence to go on. I'll keep an eye on their contribs and edit my script so they can't use it without rollback. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 23:07, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

@Ingenuity Going off the CU logs says those accounts and the current one are using the same (exceedingly large) ISP. But it’s not one geolocation is meaningful for. Courcelles (talk) 00:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Another sock for your collection

• AlirezaMohammadpasand (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Westerosi456H, H3sam, Canadianelite345, Amirreza-Astro21...and the beat goes on. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:44, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Indeffed. Courcelles (talk) 16:26, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Товболатов

Courcelles hi, sorry to bother you, I have reapplied to the arbitration, can you take a look if you don't mind. My old application 1. Товболатов (talk) 12:19, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Appreciation on ANI

		The Mediator Barnstar
		I wanted to personally thanked you after taking an action on WP:ANI [5]. Honestly, I confused between Integrity or Helping Hand, but in the end I choose to give this one instead. Thank you very much for your actions. I really appreciate it. Best regards, EdhyRa (talk) 14:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully they discuss issues. Courcelles (talk) 13:38, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Obvious sock is obvious

Could you do the honors yet again? Please see the stuff I just reverted here. Thanks. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:08, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

...and, now they are spamming my Talk page. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:14, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Already blocked. (I didn’t look at WP yesterday). Protected your and JPSs talk page for a while, this shit is getting old. Courcelles (talk) 13:38, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Agreed, and thanks for the protection. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:23, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #596

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
  • New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

• Events
  • November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
  • January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

• • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

• • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
  • Papers
    • Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
    • Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
  • Videos
    • Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
    • Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
  • Notebooks
    • Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
    • Artist selection (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
  • The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • demo of (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
    • External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • exception to constraint (lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302)
    • External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
    • University's museum in France (source)
    • 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
    • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
    • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
  • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
  • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
    • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
  • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
    • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
    • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

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.
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  • Suggested and open tasks!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Women in Red October 2023

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Meatpuppetry

Hi. In the case of suspected meatpuppetry (that includes the creation of articles with made-up content), do we file a SPI report as usual or de we take the issue to ANI? Best, M.Bitton (talk) 12:27, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Either works just fine, because meatpuppets can be treated like sockpuppets. Just be careful that if there is of-wiki evidence that outing can be an issue, so it may be better to send things off-wiki to a CU privately. Courcelles (talk) 13:35, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 18:17, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Known Rod

I just blocked Intracall as a sock of Known Rod, whom you blocked as a sock on July 28. Is there an earlier named master?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:02, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

No one ever figured it out. Reference Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1135#User:Known_Rod Courcelles (talk) 16:30, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I saw the ANI notice but was too lazy to hunt it down. I suspected, though, that there was no known master from the comments on KR's Talk page. I will tag KR and the new one. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:42, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

With the proxy use, not likely to find much of use technically, either. No sleepers, but not shocking. Courcelles (talk) 17:47, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Proxies: the bane of a CU's existence. Thanks for checking.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Exactly. Only way three continents in 3 hours is possible! Courcelles (talk) 19:01, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

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

• There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [6]
• Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [7]

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You blocked a UniBrill sock

I believe I have found yet another. Please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/UniBrill. Not yet prolific, they have total similarity of style in my view with the author of the draft and article they have in common. I have a firm suspicion of UPE. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:13, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Checked, marked for a behavior double-check. Courcelles (talk) 10:47, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

They are "clever" using noisy IP ranges. Thank you for the fast response. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:17, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

IP CIDR ranges are strange. A single /16 for a small town, or a (smaller) /20 for an entire country... Courcelles (talk) 12:19, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

I had to look CIDR up! IP was no problem 😂 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:03, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I think is was... Qatar (?) that at one time was routing its entire traffic through a /20. Not exactly a small place. Of course, it got blocked. Drama was the result. Courcelles (talk) 13:24, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Qatar was probably using one wealthy bloke's WiFi. 😈 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:31, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

You've done quite a blitz on the SPI this week. Thanks! Wikishovel (talk) 14:19, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. It's nice to get some work done before I start the 12 busiest weeks of my life soon. Courcelles (talk) 15:00, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

could be something to look into?

Been following the updates on article Hardeep Singh Nijjar due to the current news on his murder and also following discussions on talk page of the article. New user Wrythemann has raised curiosity as this user account was created on Sep 5, 2023 [8] and instantly jumped right into noticeboards discussions (prompting me to think that he might be admin), nothing like a new user would do with comments to other users about wiki policies (something a new user wouldn't know about right away). It felt like this user isn't new. I mean there is nothing that indicates this user is new. Could be one of the user who was blocked and created new account or could be a duplicate account of another user. This below is my finding which I thought might be of interest. Again, this is just curiosity, I might be wrong. [9] [10] 199.81.206.151 (talk) 16:21, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

That’s Prince Of Roblox. Blocked and tagged. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 16:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

IPBE

Hi Courcelles!

I seem to have found myself caught in an IP range block and I was wondering if perhaps I could get the IP block exempt right? Given that it's a proxy block that I've been caught in, I read through possible remedies which included sending an email to the check user team, though I don't have an email associated with my account and I'd rather keep it that way for privacy. It did say that you could contact a checkuser directly, so here I am. I've continued to mobile edit for a few days, but it's become increasingly evident to me that it's incredibly difficult to move pages on mobile, and a lot of what I do is in the RM arena. I appreciate any help/insight you can provide. Many thanks, sincerely, estar8806 (talk) ★ 17:01, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Granted for a year. That’s about how long we like to assign that flag for at a time. Courcelles (talk) 17:06, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Much appreciated, thank you! estar8806 (talk) ★ 17:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Translit vandal

Hello, it appears that someone with very similar editing patterns to a sock you blocked a few month ago is editing under the ip Special:Contributions/94.29.124.250—blindlynx 13:59, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Month off for the IP. Courcelles (talk) 22:16, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Hey sorry, now Special:Contributions/83.242.180.62 is editing the same pages in the same way—blindlynx 17:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

I don't know about Kyrgyz romanization though—blindlynx 18:01, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Neither do I, and the geolocation is a ways off (both IPs are in the Russian Federation, but not near each other). I don't have a chance to do a deep dive right now, either. Courcelles (talk) 18:42, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

i noticed that too, sorry i didn't mention—blindlynx 19:33, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

i have no idea if this is the same person but this one is back in moscow, same translit and topic area Special:Contributions/178.57.91.206...is there a better place to raise this, if only on have more eyes on it?—blindlynx 16:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Clowner25

I found Clowner25 editing the Crunchyroll LLC page by restoring the vandalic editions made by well-known Zubac97 sockpuppets.

See review here: 1

190.167.134.64 (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I have blocked Clowner25 as a WP:DUCK sockpuppet. JBW (talk) 20:28, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

For the record, confirmed, thanks for blocking. Courcelles (talk) 22:14, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Fools and Phds

• A PhD in History
• The wisest fool in Christendom

PhD was blocked on August 12. The Fool created an account on September 18. They both intersected at British Isles naming and its Talk page. Of the Fool's 48 edits, 37 of them have been on those two pages. Fool fancies themself an historian based on his comments about Ptolemy and other subjects. On the flip side, PhD is much more aggressive and attacking; otherwise, I would have blocked behaviorally, but I think there's enough to warrant a check. Your call, of course.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:07, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) When I saw this section title, I thought Bbb23 had just won the 'Describe Serial Number in three words' competition... ;} Serial 21:17, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I didn't know you had a PhD. :p --Bbb23 (talk) 21:43, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Technically the only connection is both are on the same continent. Courcelles (talk) 22:04, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Not enough to block, IMO, thanks for checking. If I may ask, why are the next 12 weeks going to be so busy for you (in RL)?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:17, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Intense, normed evaluation time. Time to see if I can actually do my job or not. Courcelles (talk) 14:33, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for your continued service! Drmies (talk) 14:26, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Don't seem to be doing much more than sticking my finger in the dam that is SPI's backlog these days. But, trying to help. Courcelles (talk) 14:34, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

Hey man im josh

• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
• Rschen7754
• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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This Month in GLAM: September 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IX, September 2023 Headlines Argentina report: Disseminating open culture Brazil report: Amazonia on Wiki Colombia report: Wikidata and the editing of Ibero-American scientific journals France report: Celebrating Rugby Herstory and History in Toulouse; Les Lorraines sans pages India report: Wikimedia Commons Contest connects Pune citizens with the rivers Mula & Mutha Italy report: 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Poland report: GLAM-Wiki educational activities Portugal report: With multiple events, September was a busy month for Wikimedia Portugal Sweden report: Wikipedia in education; Continuation at Swedish folk high schools; Wikipedians at the Bookfair UK report: A new WIR and a very old book USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: European photo contest finalists, Local Contexts Wikiproject at GLAMhack WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: October'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 #597

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
    • GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
    • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
    • Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
    • These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
    • COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
  • Papers
    • Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
  • Press
    • Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
  • Videos
    • Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
    • Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
    • Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
    • Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
    • Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.

• Tool of the week
  • https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • fonds ()
    • External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID
  • Query examples:
    • Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
    • Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
    • List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
    • Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
  • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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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Tech News: 2023-41

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

• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [12]
• At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [13]
• In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29)

October 21–22: Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. The event will feature several interactive exhibits highlighting the "wiki way" for New York City Saturday, October 21 & Sunday, October 22 (optional RSVP on-wiki). 10:00 am – 6:30 pm (come by any time, either or both days!) Prime Produce Guild Hall, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City
2023 Wikidata Day NYC flyer Additionally, you are invited to Wikidata Day in New York City at Butler Library, Columbia University, in celebration of Wikidata's 11th birthday. This coincides with the online/global WikidataCon 2023 and is a sequel to Wikidata Day 2022. The event will feature a Harlem Arts & Culture edit-a-thon, spotlight sessions, lightning talks, and cake! Sunday, October 29, 2023 Wikidata Day in New York City (RSVP required on Eventbrite and optional on-wiki). 11:00 am – 5:15 pm Butler Library (Room 203), 535 West 114th Street, Morningside Heights RSVP off-wiki is required! See the event page for a tentative schedule. At both events, all attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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Wikidata weekly summary #598

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 October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
    • Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
    • State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
    • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
    • Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
    • Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
  • Past Week:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
    • Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
  • Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
    • Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
    • Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
  • Notebooks
    • Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
    • What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
  • Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10

• Tool of the week
  • Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
  • User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
      • ‎self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
    • External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt)
      • FAO WIEWS Institution ID ()
    • External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of lighthouses in France (source)
    • Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
    • Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
    • People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
    • WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
    • WikiProject Manuscripts

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
  • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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 Abdulai (WMDE) 17:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Sock

Scott-matthews-301 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

These socks often try to get sympathy at User_talk:Jjhake. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, @Ponyo! Courcelles (talk) 22:25, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes sir!-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:27, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Can I have a rev/del please

[14]. I've reverted and left a 4im template warning. Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 18:17, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 18:20, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 18:23, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-42

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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [15]
• Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

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Promotional socks/meat

I just blocked Ge0ffrey de smet for a personal attack at WP:ANI (reverted by another user). Ge0ffrey is openly promoting OptaPlanner, his software, and related products. It also looks like Ge0ffrey created (sock) or recruited (meat) Jdmbs to help (among other things, Ge0ffrey uses Jdmbs's sandbox). I'm inclined to block both indefinitely, but I thought it might be good to know beforehand whether they are socks or meat.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:55, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed as sockpuppets. I've blocked them both. Courcelles (talk) 13:29, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Any reason you didn't tag the master?--Bbb23 (talk) 13:37, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

No, I was actually still considering if the main article needed to go through AFD when I got the new message email. Courcelles (talk) 13:38, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@Theroadislong beat me to nominating it. If it were about an eligible subject, I could see an A7, but AFD it has to be. Tagged the master now. Courcelles (talk) 13:51, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

That's what you get when you go look at your e-mail.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:53, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

EMail makes my wrist buzz ever since I got this "smart" watch that thinks I'm talking to it all the time... makes it harder to ignore! Courcelles (talk) 13:56, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Unusual result of block evasion

I don't know if this happens much, but an article that was in draft form when you blocked the editor just made it through AfC. It looks likely that they continued editing it as an IP after the block, to bring it to the status in which it was approved. You had blocked the editor some days after this ANI thread that I started.

Just thought you might want to know. I can't say for sure whether or not they created a new account after the block; there's a low signal-to-noise ratio in the pageant articles. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

GS/PAGEANT applies, so semied. Not seeing much else to do at this point. Courcelles (talk) 18:55, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Trieu Thuan Son is back

Do you have a moment to take look, please? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

GS and I were looking at the same time. Handled. Courcelles (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Y 😊 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:39, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Inappropriate use of administrative tools

A while ago you protected Port Blair. You did this at the behest of a user who had falsely described obviously good edits as vandalism. This user in fact has a long history of making false accusations of vandalism when they have merely decided on a whim that they don't like a certain edit. You protected the article in a poor state, rewarding the disruptive editor for their harmful behaviour. You should remove the protection and restore the improvements that were made. 185.104.136.31 (talk) 06:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

No. Courcelles (talk) 14:48, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Please look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jad Krimeed

Latest reported named sock is prolific. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:49, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Not seeing any sleepers, for the record. Courcelles (talk) 13:55, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:20, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #599

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
  • Upcoming:
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
    • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
    • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
    • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
    • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
    • Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
    • Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
    • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
      • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
      • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
  • Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎fonds (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to)
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products)
      • ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute)
      • Parpulov group (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov)
    • External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • used by practitioners of (item used by a practitioner of another item)
      • Plant Illustrations taxon ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website)
      • Art Platform Japan ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English))
    • External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
    • Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
    • List of cathedrals around the world with its height (source)
    • Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them (source)
    • Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects
    • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
    • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes

• Development
  • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
  • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
  • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999)

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) 16:07, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-43

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

• There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
• Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:14, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Indefinitely semi-protected pages needing prior PC settings reset

Greetings, the following pages have all been indefinitely semi-protected but for whatever reason the prior PC settings were never reset:

• Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Pauline Hanson
• Wilfred Owen
• Orange juice
• Fly
• Battle of Stamford Bridge
• Toronto Raptors
• Rolf Harris
• Childhood (redirect page)
• Laptop
• Mistake
• List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
• Malcolm Turnbull
• Indian Air Force
• Mohanlal
• Naruto Uzumaki

Can you please take care of this for all these pages? Thanks. Ranstid (talk) 13:26, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

All fixed. Courcelles (talk) 14:11, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed?

Hey, can you confirm that Mo Mazen is a sock of Ottomanor? I would like to increase the block duration of Ottomanor (not sure precisely how much yet), but just in case it's a joe-job or freakish coincidence... Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:40, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Technically?  Unrelated. And I'm surprised, too. Courcelles (talk) 16:30, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Good thing I checked first...so to speak. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:44, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I was sure they'd be the same looking at the exact revert... but there's nothing technically there. Different countries, etc... Courcelles (talk) 16:50, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Prince of Roblox

You blocked Wrythemann [17] and now the New user NeutralClaims [18], account created on 10 October 2023 is suspiciously one of the many socks of Prince of Roblox [19] with similar editing patterns which doesn't indicate this new user to be an "actual" new user. 205.182.133.63 (talk) 13:19, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 14:05, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

FYI, these barrage of IPs/proxies on your talk page are HaughtonBrit who is continuing his harassment campaign against me through proxies. Since his account Ralx888 was banned, HaughtonBrit has been incessantly hampering my edits either logged out or through sock accounts like Rivanawam, Jaagit, Elifanta23 and Ralx888 along with IPs such as [20] and [21]. Now he is using proxies-[22] + [23] + [24] (trying to get me blocked by saying Wrythemann is my sock) + [25] and this 205* IP here. (The 199 and 192* IP is his confirmed sock btw as per his SPI archives). This is really quite disturbing behaviour.

Recently, this 65* IP/proxy showed up [26] pushing the same religious chest thumping edits as HaughtonBrit, also editing the same page that the PrinceofRoblox sock did-[27] very strongly indicating this is HaughtonBrit . The IP is displaying very simliar behaviour as UnbiasedSN (whom I belive is HB's puppet account) who also made disruptive POV edits to hamper me-[28] and [29] with the same exact messages on my talk page-[30] and [31], essentially copy pasting the same message I left on their talk page. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 03:28, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

What is happening here is that Suthasianhistorian8 is upset that socks of Prince of Roblox keeps getting caught and blocked and trying to tie me to something to just prevent any more socks of Prince of Roblox from getting blocked. I have been editing wikipedia since last 12 years and my IP has always been in good standing. I suspected Suthasianhistorian8 to be sock or say having connection with the socks of Prince of Roblox such as Wrythemann where both their edits overlapped [32] and [33]. After Wrythemann was blocked, new sock emerged NeutralClaims who too was found to be sock of Prince of ROblox but what is interesting here is that NeutralClaims's very first edit was on Suthasianhistorian8's talk page [34]. Its like an attempt to prove they both have no links to one another. Why would a sock of Prince of Roblox out of all the users on Wikipedia, try to connect with Suthasianhistorian8? Another attempt to separate from Prince of Roblox is where IP65 makes changes to same page that NeutralClaims did Abhinandan Varthaman and somehow Suthasianhistorian8 now recognizes this IP65 as sock of Prince of Roblox? Come to find out Suthasianhistorian8 himself had been blocked for having a sock farm before his probation completed. [35]. Could it be that connection between Prince of Roblox and Suthasianhistorian8 was missed? There is clear indication of sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry here.170.170.200.154 (talk) 13:10, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Courcelles Okay now it's obvious beyond any shadow of dobut that HaughtonBrit is at play here. The fact that the so called ISP of this 170* IP/proxy is FedEx much like other HaughtonBrit socks [36] and [37] is the final nail in the coffin. He's been desperate to kick me off the platform since I joined and makes up all sorts of bizzare lies to gaslight people-lying about not creating another account during his block even though he created Javerine in September + trolling on my talk page + trolling an admin + creating an extremely long lie about these IPs being his college friends + impersonating an admin + lying about what a source said to push a religious agenda. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Blocked User:Laensom back as User:Laensomor

Blocked User:Laensom is back as User:Laensomor. Inserting/spamming the same images. Actually the user is a little less disruptive but still uncommunicative and being reverted/reverting back without comment. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:28, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Socks removed. Courcelles (talk) 10:59, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Stranger than fiction

TheMaster077 is an odd new (October 10) account. Started by playing in their sandbox (did some more pointless sandbox editing most recently), then after some intervening article edits filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Musicfan122 accusing two alternative accounts (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/QuestFour for more) of being socks of a blocked sock of another master. I've requested a clerk to move the report. In reviewing the edits, I saw some history of socking on the articles they edited, but nothing convinced me behaviorally. Any thoughts?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:10, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed and blocked, and filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aaron106 for the record. Courcelles (talk) 16:53, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

That was one of the masters I thought of. I deleted the SPI filed by the account. Any reason not to tag and close the report you filed for the record?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:20, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Berceuse my class decided pandemonium was the correct way to come back into the room? (I.e. done now that I can sit down again.) Courcelles (talk) 17:36, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

I assume you mean because, but berceuse is an amusing extended French typo. Is this that 12-week thing you mentioned in late September? You're the teacher? Did you ever watch Downton Abbey? The butler/footman Molesley takes up teaching in middle age and his first class devolves into chaos. Happy ending, though.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:59, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah... Google "EdTPA" and the horror stories... that's what I'm charged to complete this cycle. Courcelles (talk) 11:01, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

I read the About of one official website and the About of another related website (not sure why there are two), and then looked briefly at the FAQs of the second website. After I was done (didn't want to read anymore), I felt like I had tried to read a science article on Wikipedia, meaning a lot of gobbledygook that I didn't understand and didn't want to understand. I hope you're getting something positive out of it.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:12, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Um… not really. Frustrated beyond belief? An M.Ed.? Feeling confused beyond reason? All three, hopefully the middle. Courcelles (talk) 14:00, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Well, as long as you're here for the moment, I'll impose. I already have a master's in imposition (a PhD in complaining). I stumbled across ToadetteMisoSoup, a blocked VOA, which, because of only the username, made me think of a (problematic) editor, ToadetteEdit. Other than the usernames, I didn't think there was much evidence that they were the same person, but then some interaction between TMS and DrowssapSMM led to an analysis of the edits of TE and DSMM. Here's the page intersection of the three of them. What seems most telling to me is the project space pages TE and DSMM intersect on. I blocked TE on August 30 from ANI for 3 months for "clerking" at ANI, mostly adding useless comments on threads that did not involve them. They had been warned about it before the block. DSMM had never edited ANI until September 18, when TE was no longer able to post. In some respects similar to TE, DSMM supported blocks and bans. Although TE has far more edits than DSMM, DSMM is the oldest account.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:05, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Those three accounts are consistently coming off three different continents. Courcelles (talk) 16:54, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

I need to come up with more users so you run out of continents. I don't suppose there's such a thing as a microcontinent? Thanks for checking.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:33, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

There is! Zealandia! But seriously, it's kind of shocking how consistent those three are -- they never move around within the three months of CU data. Courcelles (talk) 17:42, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Block evasion

You blocked 89.26.247.77 for persistent disruptive editing. I just noticed 170.80.111.10 adding the same information to Datura stramonium as well as editing the other areas that the previous IP is interested in. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 15:56, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Webhost. Blocked half a year. Courcelles (talk) 17:43, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

2O

@NinjaRobotPirate and Courcelles: Could I get your eyes on TheWellEry? This seems pretty open and shut, but the CU log shows checks for multiple masters so I want to double check. I see a TTT24 check here, but... seems to be Intracall, who is identified as someone else. -- ferret (talk) 13:23, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Feels like Known Rod to me, but I've not been able to ever determine who the underlying master was below those two...and this new account would actually be the master between these three due to the sleeper nature of it? Stranger. @Ponyo has done a few checks in this underlying IP, so adding her to the conversation. Courcelles (talk) 14:09, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

I did block (work kept me busy for a bit), so this more a question of who's who for the tagging. -- ferret (talk) 18:51, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

TTT24 has definitely been on that IP before, they're listed on CU wiki if you want to compare. Just blocked a whack of their socks last week, but the SPI needs to be clerked. There could very well be multiple masters on that single IP.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

If someone bloats articles while logged out, creates templates for fictional characters, and generally imports Wikia-style content to Wikipedia, they're TTT24. I'd say it's pretty much a guarantee if they're on an IP I've already blocked in the past. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:38, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 600th Wikidata Weekly Summary!

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

• Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed

• Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから
  • 600 in the multiverse: as a year (another year), a number, a category, a track gauge, a jet, an asteroid, an auto race, a genetic element, a death, a birth, a TV serie, a car, a galaxy, a sport discipline, a radio telescope, an engine, a polygon, a film, a GPU, a photolithography, and many more…
• Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600
• Map of things at an altitude of 600 m
• List of items with an external ID equal to 600
  • Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027
• WikidataCon happened over the weekend
  • Birthday wishes from the community, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below:

Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.

Wikidata’s world - map of Wikidata Items with a geocoordinate

There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team

• Documentation of the sessions is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube. The individual sections are here.
• List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
  • Luthor is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
  • সংকলক একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
  • File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
  • Quonter Vandal - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue (talk)
  • Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
  • The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
  • inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
    • support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by wikibase:lexicalCategory, example by dct:language) ; other example by badge
    • new column type: sitelinks (example 1, example 2)
    • Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister (talk)
  • The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page.
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
    • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
    • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) statement, currently 5709 pages)
    • MsynBot 13 (Task: Remove unnecessary use of preferred rank)

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing:
    • WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26)
  • Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move
    • Linking ACMI & Wikidata, by Paul Duchesne
    • Enhanced Wikibase, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting
    • Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes, by Yamen
    • 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT)
    • The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group
  • Papers
    • Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning (Jarnac et al)
  • Press
    • The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group via OrissaDiary.com
    • Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.")
  • Videos
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education
    • (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023)
    • Wikidata merge-gadget (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker (in Portuguese)
    • Introduction to Wikibase Cloud (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) and author name string (P2093) statements by series ordinal (P1545). Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168).
  • Notable People is a map project by Topi Tjukanov that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members.
  • Wikimedia Research Fund Update update. "You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."
  • The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, ‎Flickr photo ID, ‎IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, ManyVids ID, ‎North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, Repairs ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • nixpkgs path (other operating systems have their package manages as id properties)
      • Cultural Heritage Online ID (identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online)
    • External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Emerald network site ID, Playdate Catalog ID, Rowing Canada ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, old-games id, TheTVDB movie ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, cagb manuscript ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, Filmweb ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Gale document ID
  • Query examples:
    • Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts
    • Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies (source)
    • Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners (source)
    • Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986, phab:T342980, phab:T335842)
  • Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.

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 Abdulai (WMDE) 15:04, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2023

Women in Red November 2023, Vol 9, Iss 11, Nos 251, 252, 287, 288, 289 Online events: New: Alphabet run I & J | Geofocus: Indian subcontinent | Women in Politics Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also Wikipedia Asian Month November Contest Tip of the month: When translating articles from another language Wikipedia, don't forget to include attribution in your first edit summary. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 08:21, 26 October 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2023-44

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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
• The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [38][39]
• Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [40]

Future changes

• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
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I was thinking about...

Maybe, thinking about, with a view to more thinking, about creating an article. It's for a film called The Road Dance. Maybe

Is there any way to find out if another editor has tried creating it? Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 17:11, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

@Knitsey I found an old G13 draft that I've put back at Draft:The Road Dance so you can see if it's the same film? Courcelles (talk) 17:18, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Lovely, yeah thats the one. If I want to work on it do I just do that from the blocked users draft? Would I be able to submit it once it's cleaned up and has adequate referencing? I've had a look at available references and it might pass WP:MOSFILM. Thank you so much for finding it. Knitsey (talk) 17:24, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, you can either work on the draft there, or if you want to use absolutely none of the material, I can put it back in the trash and you can start fresh de novo, either way. And, actually, as not the creator, you can just move it into mainspace when you think it is ready. Courcelles (talk) 17:26, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Brilliant. I'm still looking for more refs. I will decide tomorrow if I want to start from scratch or use what they have already.

Thank you! Knitsey (talk) 17:35, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi again, I think I'm going to do this from scratch. I need the experience, the existing draft isn't really populated. Do I need to wait for its deletion? Thank you. Knitsey (talk) 15:35, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Nope. I put it back in the trash. You can work in your sandbox. Courcelles (talk) 16:44, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help. Knitsey (talk) 16:56, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed protected pages needing prior PC settings reset

Greetings, the following indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed protected pages have not had their prior PC settings reset for whatever reason.

• Huw Jenkins
• Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
• PlayStation
• JaVale McGee
• Googol
• World's Biggest Liar
• Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
• List of emoticons
• South Asia
• Autism Speaks
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/2
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/5
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/6
• Terry Bean
• United States presidential eligibility legislation
• Jennifer Caron Hall
• Courtney Stodden
• Candy Crush Saga
• Knowledge Kids (redirect page)
• List of video games considered the best
• Zoe Sugg
• Young Thug
• Camille Rowe
• Amit Mehta
• Black Lives Matter
• Heartbreak on a Full Moon
• Zeeshan Khan (squash player)

Would you please take care of this issue for each of the above pages? Appreciate it. Proficient Speller (talk) 17:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

This from an account whose only edits have been to their userspace and the above post.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:58, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Sock. Blocked. Not reverting because it is actually something I might process anyway. Courcelles (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Something about the username. Who's the master?--Bbb23 (talk) 18:13, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

That's CalebHughes, also seen today doing this and this (not just today). -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:42, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Nov 15: WikiWednesday Salon + Wikimedia NYC Executive Director job

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Wikidata weekly summary #601

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

• Discussions
  • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).

• Events
  • Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023
  • This Week:
    • Wikidata for Digital Humanities workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
    • Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3 hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
  • Upcoming: Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata Arabic Community.
    • ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning.
  • Papers
    • PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
    • Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
    • Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.

• • Videos
    • OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
    • OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph
    • Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations(YouTube shorts) are celebrated by the Community
    • Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano (Italian)
    • Intro to Wikibase Cloud (Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
  • The Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎Playdate Catalog ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • linguistic family of place name (Relates directly a placename to its original language family. It's not the language in which the toponym is written, but the language from which the word (place name) comes from.)
      • according to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source)
      • counterexample (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold (alias: "item belonging to the subject class but not the value class"))
      • Book ordinal in a publication series (This property describes the order of the book within a book series.)
      • Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID (Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website (comitatoparalimpico.it))
      • tax base (This property describes the calculation basis for the item of Taxation.)
      • tax objects (This property describes certain objects, acts, or other facts that are the basis for calculating taxes.)
      • taxpayer (This property describes someone who owes money.)
    • External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID, Propylaeum-VITAE id, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Alexandria.dk person, Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion, CECC Political Prisoner ID, shukach.com ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Fondazione Fiera ID, Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs, Dongqiudi.com team ID, Moviepilot.de person ID, IDVT, National-Football-Teams.com national team ID, Kicker team ID, FilmAffinity person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of phobias in French
    • Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement and
    • Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project

• • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (phab:T342980)
    • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
  • Language codes:
    • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652)
    • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)
  • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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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Tech News: 2023-45

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

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [41]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [42]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
• The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [43][44]

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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This Month in GLAM: October 2023

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Sox tangled

Hi Courcelles! Back to admin work and of course immediately ran into this. Was wondering if you could take a look.

• HaNagid (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is behaviorally dead-to-rights as Tombah (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki), in my opinion, with an outside chance of being some other PIA sockmaster. A CU told me to handle it on behavioral, but that was before the full picture emerged. (Note also contemporaneous CUblock of TheLastDerwish (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki).)
• HJ Mitchell blocked Emolu (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) as יניב הורון [Yaniv Horon]. Nableezy questioned that match, and I declined unblock saying that I thought Tombah was a more likely master than Yaniv. Now Trilletrollet has commented that BedrockPerson/Zhomron is a better match. At a glance, I see the evidence for this claim, but there's still a suspicious degree of overlap with HaNagid.

Can you untangle this mess? At this point, gun to my head I'd say Tombah and Zhomron respectively with some coördination... But the account creation date on HaNagid is surprising so maybe I had the wrong master there? (Not that that changes blockability; was XC-gaming if nothing else.)

All the best. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 13:23, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

(tps) I'm passing by the sidelines, and don't have a tremendous amount to add, but I do want to inform that I recently blocked a load of socks who appear to be יניב הורון/Yaniv (roughly here). From what I've seen, which is not everything, the others appear to be likely unrelated. I don't know if that helps or muddies everything, but may be worth knowing. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 13:37, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

The technical data is a mess, and I do not have time to dig into it today to see if I can pull out anything useful. I'll try tomorrow? Courcelles (talk) 14:31, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Sure. No particular rush, as both accounts are indeffed and likely to stay that way. Just figure it's best to untangle this now rather than a month from now when it's "Well this new account is a lot like Emolu and a little like HaNagid so uh... who do we block as?" -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 15:57, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Courcelles. :) Just checking if you've had a chance to look at this. If you're busy, I can put it up at SPI or nag someone else who knows the topic area's LTAs. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|she) 12:34, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Update: Okay, pretty convinced Trilletrollet is right that Emolu is BedrockPerson/Zhomron. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|she) 15:19, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, @Tamzin, the end of this MAT is just taking every second I have and not letting me think of looking at this place much. Come on Thanksgiving. Courcelles (talk) 14:46, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Wow, Gerda. Some days it surprises me how long we've all been around working on this project. Courcelles (talk) 11:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, me too. - I met a very strange concept yesterday: the idea that linking to a list of a composer's works from his biography is breaking policy. (I met it sooner, but it was more pronounced yesterday.) See Talk:Gioachino Rossini, and no, it's not infobox yes or no but if such infobox may contain the link (arguing then that without the link the box would be worthless). I don't know what to say, really, - would you have an idea? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:06, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

I admit I do not have time to read that discussion (my class is coming in and I need to start teaching soon), but why would a subarticle like that not be linked somewhere in the main article? That's the very idea of summary style I do believe. Courcelles (talk) 12:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

I have no idea. In the main article, it would be the same problem, and I just don't get it. Not to link to a person's works, that are only in a separate article because a creator was too prolific, looks kafkaesque to me. - The infobox wars - if they ever existed - should have been over when WTT put the Beethoven compromise in place (in 2015 that was, and has been stable since), but that features exactly the link that is now questioned, - in other words, instead of finally accept the compromise, find something wrong with it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Protection of Stereotypes of African Americans

Hi Courcelles,I am not so familiar with the English Wikipedia and its rules because I normally only work in the deWikipedia. For a course that deals with the topic of stereotypes and that I supervise at the University of Zurich, it would be helpful to remove the protection of the article Stereotypes of African Americans that you created in August. Is that possible? Lantus (talk) 09:24, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

It’s only protected against editing from accounts that have not existed for 4 days and made 10 edits. If you’ve got students who need access, I can flag them as exempt from those requirements, but the protection is stopping the flood of racism that plagued that article. Courcelles (talk) 17:19, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Strictly Come Dancing (series 21)

The protection template came off this article this afternoon. Can you reestablish it? Thank you! Bgsu98 (Talk) 19:37, 11 November 2023 (UTC)