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Wikidata weekly summary #354
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Esteban16
- Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
- Events
- Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [1].
- You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
- Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
- Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
- A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
- Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
- OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
- External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
- External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
- Query examples:
- Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
- Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
- Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
- Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
- Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
- items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
- Map of tram service in Ulm (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added monolingual language code
tlb(Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week) - Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
- Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
- Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
- Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
- Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
- Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
- Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
- Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
- Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
- Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
- Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
- Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
- Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
- Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
- Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
- Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)
- Added monolingual language code
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).
Meetings
-
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
- The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [2][3]
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Wikidata weekly summary #355
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
- Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
- Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsor the#statementsparser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer<maplink>if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change! - A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
- Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users
- Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
- External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
- External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
- A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
- the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
- Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
- Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
- Timeline of Microscopists (source)
- Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
- People with songs named after them (source)
- Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
- Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
- Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
- Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
- Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
- Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
- Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
- Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
- Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
- Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
- Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
- Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
- Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
- Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
- Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
- Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
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
- Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsLua function or the#statementsparser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer<maplink>if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator. - There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.
Problems
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
- Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [4]
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [5][6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #356
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new data type is available : musical notation
- A research report is now available for the project Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping. The research investigates which (updated) metadata cultural institutions would like to retrieve back from (Structured) Wikimedia Commons, and what the main barriers are. Research summary / presentation slides / full report
- If you're using Wikidata dumps, please note that the update schedule may change from fixed weekday to fixed day of the month. More info in this ticket
- Slides of the Wikidata presentation during UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week by Shani Evenstein now available on Commons.
- A project to link branded businesses in Open Street Maps to Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Guggenheim fellows ID, Sandbox-Musical Notation
- External identifiers: Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor label ID, Rhineland-Palatinate protected area ID, film-documentaire.fr author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: average speed, Digital Author Identifier, date of the latest value change, chữ Nôm, capacity factor, study or design for, motif (music), chess position
- External identifiers: Salvador Dali Museum ID, Tainacan MHN ID, AWARE ID, Cini Foundation ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, Artcurial ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, Periscope pscp.tv, LinkedIn personal profile ID, Library of Parliament Person ID, Gamepedia Article ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, JRC Names id, Fandango theater ID, Epitafier.se
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
- View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
- Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
- Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
- Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
- Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
- Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
- Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
- Deploy the score data type to production
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Growth team updates #6
Welcome to the sixth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Plans for the next three months
The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the help panel and the newcomer homepage. We have decided not to start the engagement emails project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:
- Deploy and iterate on newcomer homepage
- Continued iteration on help panel
- Make the help panel available to more wikis
- Add a fourth Wikipedia to our set of target wikis
- Publish in-depth quantitative reporting on the data from this year
- Assemble a report on what our team has learned so far about newcomers
Newcomer homepage
We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:
- Shown in the User space
- Desktop only (mobile comes next)
- Four modules
- Help module: help links and ability to ask help desk questions
- Mentorship module: all newcomers assigned a mentor to whom they can ask questions
- Impact module: shows the number of pageviews for pages the newcomer edited
- Account completion module: gives some very simple recommendations of how to get started (add an email, start your user page)
- Layout not yet personalized for each user
We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.
Help panel
During the last month, the help panel was deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:
- 2,425 newcomers have seen the help panel
- 422 of them have opened it
- 175 have clicked links
- 27 have run searches
- 40 have asked questions
We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on our team's talk page, in the language of your choice.
Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.
- We added a search capability, in which users can search the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
- The help panel was previously available whenever a newcomer was in "edit" mode. We are now also showing the help panel when a newcomer is in "read" mode on a page in the Help, Wikipedia, or User namespaces.
We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [7][8]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [9]
- Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
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March GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Wikidata weekly summary #357
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
- An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in
- Events
- Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
- Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
- Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)
- Press, articles, blog posts
- SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
- "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
- A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poukter, Wikimedia UK blog
- On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
- The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
- Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on
. - Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
- New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
- Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization
- It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
- External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
- External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
- Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
- Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
- Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
- Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
- Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
- Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
- Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
- Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
- Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
- Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
- Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
- Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
- Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [10]
Problems
- There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [11]
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [12]
- Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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The Signpost: 31 March 2019
- From the editors: Getting serious about humor
- News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
- In the media: Women's history month
- Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
- Featured content: Out of this world
- Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
- Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
- Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
- News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
- Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
- From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
- Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
- In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
- Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
- Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings
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Wikidata weekly summary #358
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata meetup during the Wikimedia Summit, March 29th in Berlin (collaborative notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for archives in Saint-Etienne, France, on April 3rd and 5th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin in Wikibär on April 14th
- Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikidataCon 2019 application, program submission and scholarship processes are now open until April 29th
- Structured Data on Commons: You can now test creating depicts statements
- While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor, it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
- OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
- Discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about the improvements in SPARQL language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: capacity factor, position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
- External identifiers: Libreflix ID, Kicker.de player ID, Library of Parliament of Canada person ID, RoMEO publisher ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, XING company ID, L'Express person ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, Gamepedia article ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Salvador Dali Museum ID, Index to American Botanical Literature ID, FaroeSoccer player ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, Artcurial lot ID, SNISB ID, Tainacan MHN ID, 100 bombardirov person ID, Cini Foundation ID, LinkedIn personal profile ID, ACA author ID, CDEC ID, AWARE ID, JRC Names id, Zomato ID, TV Spielfilm series ID, Fandango theater ID, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID, JMdictDB ID, Zagat ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: First attestation, match interval, réédité par, calligrapher, Ordained by, code produit, Wikidata property example for media
- External identifiers: Baden-Württemberg Schutzgebiete-ID, K10plus editions, Utpictura18 ID, Le Vif tag ID, Common Sense Media review ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, Democracy Club Election ID, MARGS ID, Kobo author ID, WoRMS source ID, Kobo narrator ID, NGMDb Prod ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, AntWiki, MESH Concept ID, MESH Term ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID
- Query examples:
- Siblings who have won the Israel Prize (source)
- British female engineers, 1919-2019 (source)
- Female scientific illustrators (source)
- French archivists with a picture (source)
- Archive institutions in Switzerland and how much they hold (source)
- Graph of open source research software by field (source)
- Groups of characters in the Marvel universe (source)
- In what type of places are ancient Greek potteries stored? (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on a dashboard for external identifiers (phab:T204440)
- Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API modules (phab:T217243)
- Add tests for embed.html (phab:T212649)
- Improve features for wikibase vandalism detection model (phab:T194737)
- Improve Property Info cache performance (phab:T218115, phab:T218197)
- Adding nofollow to external identifiers links (phab:T175230)
- Hide query helper by default in Query Service (phab:T217886)
- More work on wb_terms normalization (Phab board)
- Enable trimming whitespace around Label/Description/Aliases and Schema text (phab:T215761)
- Prevent moving Schemas between namespaces (and generally) (phab:T219313)
- Limit the length of Schema labels, descriptions, aliases, and schema text in the frontend (phab:T218867)
- Add tracking for clicks on the “check entities against this Schema” link (phab:T218899)
- Disallow importing of Schemas from another wiki or XML files to avoid ID conflicts (phab:T218181)
- Make sure RTL text is being handled correctly in the Schema labels, descriptions and aliases table (phab:T219136)
- Add a publish button on mobile termbox: (phab:T218573)
- Building the wbeditentity request to be fired on save request: (phab:T218577)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Wikidata weekly summary #359
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
- New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
- Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
- [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
- The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
- The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
- The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
- New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
- Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
- External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
- External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: first names of Italians
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
- Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
- Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
- Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
- Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
- Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
- Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
- Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
- Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
- More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
- Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
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
- More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
- Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [15][16]
Problems
- You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [17]
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [18]
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [19]
Changes later this week
- When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [20]
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [21]
- The
{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return""(empty string). When you read a page it will return"-"(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [22] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [23][24]
- The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
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Wikidata weekly summary #360
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Non-free content
- Events
- Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
- New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
- Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
- The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
- Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
- External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
- External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
- Query examples:
- Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
- Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
- Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
- Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
- American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
- French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Added Sámi monolingual language codes
sia(Akkala),sjk(Kemi) andsjt(Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521) - Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
- Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
- Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
- Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
- Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
- Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
- Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
- More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms
- Added Sámi monolingual language codes
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!
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
- All wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata will get a new constraint status called
suggestion. This will change how theWikibaseQualityConstraintsconstraint checking API works. [25][26] - You can test the
depictsproperty for structured data on Commons.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [27][28][29]
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [30]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [31][32]
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