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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Arbitrary page deletion and redirect by reviewer -- no opportunity for discussion

Hi Mike! Festive greetings to you from a very cold Illinois and warm wishes for a wonderful 2022. :)

I'm writing to you today with concerns about a page I created in August 2021 that was suddenly removed today by a reviewer, with no warning and no opportunity for discussion either on my Talk page or the article's talk page. The page in question is Muh Dikhai, a 2015 studio album by noted vocalist Shafqat Amanat Ali. Link to the page's last version, prior to deletion is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muh_Dikhai&oldid=1061660760

The editor in question cited lack of notability for the album as reason for deletion and redirected the page to the artiste's Wikipedia page. There are hundreds of stub pages on music albums on Wikipedia that are 1,000 bytes in size, have little more than a track listing, and have 2-3 poor quality references. These articles have been allowed to remain on Wikipedia. For example: Jal Pari (album), Doorie, Meri Kahani, Koi Aanay Wala Hai, Dhaani. In comparison, the page this reviewer deleted was 7,000+ bytes in size and cited a dozen or more high-quality references including extensive media coverage in India and Pakistan, AND artist interviews with reputable national and international media outlets. The album itself is noteworthy (not because it's by a prominent artiste) but for its standalone contributions to Sufi music and Sufi poetry in the South Asian region. The Muh Dikhai article was much more than just the track listing for the album, and (in my opinion) it met general notability guidelines. So I thought it merited its own page -- it was also recently connected to a Wikidata item. A lot of effort went into writing the page, and I'd argue that the article and references demonstrate "significant coverage," "reliable sources," "objective references," and that it is "independent of the subject."

I've noticed this editor may have a history of outright deleting pages he does not like. I left messages on his Talk page and am waiting for him to respond, but in the past, he has responded with "GO AWAY" (!!!) to other editors, so I'm not sure how helpful or respectful communicating with him is going to be. So I'm reaching out to you directly to request your own review of the page Muh Dikhai to either restore the page as it was, or providing an opportunity for further discussion about keeping/deleting/merging the page. Thank you for reading this very long post and for all your contributions to Wikipedia. Sincerely, Priyanka2330 (talk) 03:16, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Priyanka2330: This isn't the kind of thing I can help with, sorry. I suggest raising this for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, where you'll find editors that specialise in album articles who can help better than me. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:34, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mike Peel: Thanks so much, Mike. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Happy new year in advance! :) Priyanka2330 (talk) 19:11, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Photo for Maroparque

Hi there. I took the photo you included at Template:Did you know nominations/Maroparque and cropped it. The new file is at commons:File:At La Palma 2021 1990 (cropped).jpg - I think this new version is a little more visually appealing than the original. Mindmatrix 21:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mindmatrix: Thanks! But there's a higher resolution photo at File:At La Palma 2021 1673.jpg that is quite similar to that crop, although perhaps it needs brightening a bit. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:53, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mindmatrix: I brightened the higher res photo, and swapped them over in the article, thanks for the comment! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:20, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #500

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

• Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
  • Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
  • “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
  • Q207742 is about the natural number 500
  • Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
  • The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
  • Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
  • Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
    • Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
  • Past:
    • Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
    • WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
      • Wikidata talks:
        • Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
        • A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
        • Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
        • How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
        • Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
        • Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
        • IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
        • Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
        • Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
        • Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
        • Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
        • Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
        • Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
        • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
        • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
        • A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
        • Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
        • Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
        • From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
        • Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
        • From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
        • Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
        • IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
        • A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
        • Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
        • Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
        • Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
        • Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
        • Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
        • Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
        • The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
        • Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
        • Measuring and monitoring data quality
        • Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Wikidata in Australia showcase
        • Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
        • Writing schemas for Wikidata
        • Overview of ontology issues
        • Wikidata and OCCRP
      • Wikibase talks:
        • Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
        • How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
        • Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
        • "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
        • Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
        • How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
        • Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
        • Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
        • Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
        • Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
        • Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
  • Papers
    • Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
    • Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
  • Videos
    • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
    • How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
    • Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
  • If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
    • Engineering Director
    • Full-Stack Developer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type host, CSS code
    • External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
    • External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
    • UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
    • Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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) 14:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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Merchandise giveaway nomination

A token of thanks Hi Mike Peel! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kosmos 1408

The article Kosmos 1408 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kosmos 1408 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CactiStaccingCrane -- CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 02:02, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

DYK for 40-foot radio telescope

On 3 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 40-foot radio telescope, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 40-foot radio telescope (pictured) at Green Bank Observatory was the first automated telescope? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/40 Foot Telescope. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 40-foot radio telescope), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes

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Opabinia regalis

Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Oversighter changes

Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

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Wikidata weekly summary #501

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
  • Videos
    • Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
  • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
  • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
    • External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
    • External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
  • Query examples:
    • Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
    • Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
    • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
    • People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
    • Average height of people named Joe (Source)
    • Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:45, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #502

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
  • New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. to local time!
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
    • The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
    • Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
    • 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
  • Videos
    • Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
    • Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
      • Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
      • Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
      • Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
  • The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
    • if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
    • if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
  • New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite
    • Working student in International Software Collaboration
  • Post WikidataCon 2021
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
    • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
    • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
    • External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
    • External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
  • Query examples:
    • Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
    • Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
    • Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
    • Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
    • Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
    • Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
    • Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
    • World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
    • Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)

• Development
  • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
  • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
  • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

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.

• Looking back at 2021
  • Developments rolled out in 2021:
    • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
    • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
    • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
    • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
    • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
    • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
  • New entities in 2021:
    • Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
    • Properties P9003 to P10223
    • Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 40-foot radio telescope

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 40-foot radio telescope you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 23:21, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

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

• A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [3]
• Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [4]
• Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [5]
• Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [6]
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [7]
• The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [8] [9]
• Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [10]
• The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021 Headlines Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January'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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 10:46, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021 Headlines Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January'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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 16:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Maroparque

On 13 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maroparque, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Maroparque received more than 250 exotic animals that were evacuated due to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maroparque. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Maroparque), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #503

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present 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.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
    • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
  • Past:
    • Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
    • Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
    • Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
    • Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
  • Videos
    • Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
    • Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
  • GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
    • External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
    • External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
    • Irish artists and their relationships (source)
    • Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
    • Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)

• Development
  • Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
  • Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
  • Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
  • Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 40-foot radio telescope

The article 40-foot radio telescope you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:40-foot radio telescope for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 17:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

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

• When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [11]
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 40-foot radio telescope

The article 40-foot radio telescope you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:40-foot radio telescope for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 00:21, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Meat Loaf

The source you cited (Evening Standard) obtained it's information from TMZ. Please look at my hidden comment about TMZ in the article and on the talk page. Please revert your edit until a better source (that doesn't rely on TMZ) can be found. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 20:07, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: Hmm, I missed the TMZ mention below the image. I suggest describing the TMZ report and the issues around it within the article, rather than by adding comments, as this is just going to be repeated until there's more information available here. My main concern was that COVID wasn't even being mentioned, even if that was only a possible cause of death. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:12, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, but I won't describe anything related to TMZ. If it continues to happen without a better source, I'll ask for page protections. Best! Sundayclose (talk) 20:27, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: Head, sand. :-( Page protections won't help, this a case of describing what has been reported regardless of whether you agree with it or not. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:29, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

I respect your opinion, but I disagree. If poorly sourced information is added repeatedly, page protection could help, although that's not guaranteed. I've seen it happen in other articles. Hopefully a better source will be found and this will be a moot point. Anyway, thanks for the discussion. Sundayclose (talk) 20:38, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: Better references is always a good solution - but if information is being added repeatedly, then it's better to explain why that's happening and the issues with it rather than to deny it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:41, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'll have to ask you not to edit war. You've been around a while, so you know the rules. I don't want to get into a big argument here, so I'm leaving the article alone for now and I won't bother you again unless you revert further. Thanks.Sundayclose (talk) 20:45, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: Sure, let's see what others think. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:48, 21 January 2022 (UTC)