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Wikidata weekly summary #509

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
  • Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
  • Past:
    • Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
  • Videos
    • Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
    • Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
    • Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
    • Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
    • Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
    • Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
  • February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
  • Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
  • Job opening: Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: computational complexity
    • External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
    • External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
    • Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
    • Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
    • New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
    • Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
    • Types of quartz (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
  • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
  • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
  • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
  • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

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 searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [1]
• Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [2][3]
• The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

• The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

• Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
• If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

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

Administrator changes

Modussiccandi

BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Request

Hello, can you create this article in English?: Evangelical Council of the Canary Islands or Consejo Evangélico de Canarias. You can build on this: Consejo Evangélico de Canarias (spanish). It is an item equivalent to Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands. I can't do it myself because I'm an anonymous user. All the best.--87.223.151.56 (talk) 18:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't really do religious articles. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the 35 presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #99, March 13th at 13.00 UTC
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #74 - YouTube, Facebook, March 12th at 19:00 UTC
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Presentation and discussion: "Introduction to Linked Open Data Strategy with Lea Voget, Head, Product Management WMDE". Lea is not only the team lead of product, project and program managers at WMDE, she is also one of the main thinkers behind the Linked Open Data strategy. When: 11 March 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter). Registration: Registration link
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Associate Librarian Stacy Allison-Cassin and her students on Wikidata in the classroom. Agenda
    • Art+Feminism editathon at the University Library Center of the University of Salerno. 8 March 2022
    • Wikidata workshop, held in collaboration with IPTC and explores the use of Wikidata concepts when dealing with metadata in media applications. Timing: from 10:00 to 18:00 CET. With presentations from: Yle, RAI, France TV, IPTC, Gruppo RES, Media Press, Perfect Memory, New York Times, NTB, Imatrics.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Ukraine
  • Past:
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #73 #opendataday - YouTube
    • NFDI InfraTalk: Wikibase - knowledge graphs for RDM in NFDI4Culture - YouTube (March 7, 4:00 PM CEST)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Creating a new item on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Connecting Wikidata with OpenStreetMap (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (in French) - YouTube: 1, 2, 3.

• Tool of the week
  • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
  • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
  • Job openings:
    • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
    • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
    • Natural History Museum, Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created during, Ghana Place Names URL, trained by
    • External identifiers: Old-Games.RU ID, Strongman Archives athlete ID, SBN work ID, SBN place ID, Kanobu numeric game ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, CBDB.cz author ID, CBDB.cz book ID, ULI ID, NLC Bibliography ID, LMHL author ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Latvia water body classification code, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, QQ Music singer ID, PubCRIS product number, PKULaw CLI Code, NVE glacier ID, iXBT Games ID, TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Агрегатируется с, Observer
    • External identifiers: traveloka activities ID, tiket to-do ID, TEIS ID, OBD Memorial ID, Hrono.ru article ID, db.narb.by ID, Shopee Shop ID, Grab Food ID, US trademark serial number, Scottish Built Ships ID, trivago hotel ID, skyscanner hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, pravo.gov.ru ID, NGO Darpan ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID
  • Query examples:
    • Use of free software license for describing software (source)
    • Count of latest available Twitter follower count for different programming languages (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages and their paradigms (source)
    • Most popular programming language on Wikipedia with multilingual articles (source)
    • Russian TV channels from and about Russia (source)
    • Places of birth of people named "Désirée" (source)
    • People in the Père-Lachaise cemetery who were born in a city that is or was in Ukraine (source)
    • Properties linking between a church and its saint (source)

• Development
  • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
  • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue II, February 2022 Headlines Albania report: Traditional Food Photography Belgium report: Shakespeare is dead - Contemporary playwriting festival; Public Domain Day Belgium 2022 (10/02) report Estonia report: An examples of a visual storytelling – two virtual exhibitions France report: Wikimedian in Residence in Clermont Auvergne Italy report: New agreement for Wiki Loves Monument Italy 2022 Kosovo report: Traditional Food Photography Netherlands report: New photo collections of Alkmaar, Wiki goes Caribbean meeting, contemporary art Wikidata import and knowledge platform for GLAMS New Zealand report: National Digital Forum and Editing in a Time of COVID Nigeria report: 1Lib1Ref 2022 Kwara Poland report: New GLAM-Wiki partnerships and cooperations Serbia report: A month in the sign of 1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Additional photos from Swedish missionairies; Historical maps of Ukraine UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Stand with Ukraine! USA report: Women's History Month activities AvoinGLAM report: February in AvoinGLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Encyclopaedia of Life release their 2 million species descriptions under CC0 Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Editing SDC with OpenRefine; Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. You can also look at a selection of sessions based on your areas of interest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #75 - YouTube, Facebook, March 19th at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #100(!), March 20th at 13.00 UTC
    • Bug Triage Hour focused on data reuse, March 23rd
    • Wikidata 101 workshop (in Albanian language) March 15th at 10 o'clock at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana
    • Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central - "How GraphDB can help you create a graph model of your data and enrich it with reference data". March 17th
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #33, Furniture

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • History of the Tour de France: a notebook to explore the history of the tour de France in three charts.
    • A dataset of scholarly journals in wikidata : (selected) external identifiers
    • Getting all the government agencies of the world structured in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • ParaNames: A Massively Multilingual Entity Name Corpus (built using Wikidata)
  • Videos
    • Breton Lexicographic data SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata SPARQL session (in French) - YouTube
    • moreIdentifiers UseAsRef gadget (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata working hour - QuickStatements (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Graph data formats: Common RDF vocabularies (in Czech) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Ghana Place Names URL, trained by, KLADR ID, identifies
    • External identifiers: TVSA actor ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, Culture.ru person ID, Naver VIBE track ID, LastDodo-area-identifier, Index to Organism Names ID, ELF code, Historical Topography of Cultural Heritage object ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, Trip.com hotel ID, tiket.com hotel ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, parliament.uk member ID, RODI-DB player ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, MovieMeter series ID, Gesher Theatre Archive person ID, Gesher Theatre Archive play ID, Euro NCAP ID, Drammen city encyclopedia ID, GoHa.ru ID, Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form identifier, Qichacha firm ID, WorldFootball.net match ID, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, NetEase Music artist ID, Chgk person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Traveloka hotel ID, police zone ID (Belgium), Berlin Street ID, Renacyt ID, VGTimes ID, CineCartaz film ID, JeuxActu ID, Urban Electric Transit country ID, Change.org decision maker ID, Podchaser episode ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, Dansk Navneleksikon ID, CiteSeerX person ID, CNKI author ID, naturkartan.se ID, HaBima Archive play ID, HaBima Archive person ID, Vedomosti company ID, Grab Food restaurant ID, Chinese School Identifier, Drevo Encyclopedia ID, svpressa.ru person ID, GameMAG ID, ICQ user ID, Scottish Built Ships ID, histrf.ru person ID, symogih.org ID, Mapping Manuscript Migrations manuscript ID, US trademark serial number, NLC Bibliography ID (foreign-language), GoFood restaurant ID, Official Internet Portal of Legal Information ID, Bavarian Monument Map Object-ID (building ensemble), skyscanner hotel ID, NGO Darpan ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Observer, identifiant spectacle Les Archives du spectacle, Supports qualifier 2, franchisor, Exhibited Creator, colocated with
    • External identifiers: trivago hotel ID, Agoda Hotel Numeric ID, Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID, Booking.com numeric ID, WIPO Pearl term ID, United Russia member ID, Repetti on-line ID, Nice Classification ID, IxTheo ID, Encyclopedia of China ID (Third Edition), MovieMeter TV season ID, MangaDex title ID, 1905.com film ID, 1905.com star ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Italian Women Writers ID, Championat.com ID, Arachne entity ID, IRIS Friuli-Venezia Giulia IDs, Sport24.ru team ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, AlloCiné TV season ID, Virginia Burgesses and Delegates Database ID, Arizona Legislators Then and Now ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, ubereats store ID, FamousFix topic ID, FAOTERM ID, RSPA Ancient authors ID, RSPA Modern authors ID, ImagesDéfense ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, ILO code, Culture.ru institutes ID, Proza.ru author ID, Stihi.ru author ID, TV Maze season ID, Virginia Tech Dendrology Factsheets ID, Boobpedia ID, Leafsnap ID, neftegaz.ru person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties describing Art UK artworks (source)
    • Timeline of victims of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Population of countries that share a border with Russia (source)
    • Audio pronunciation of places in Wales (source)
    • Things with a national gallery of Scotland ID where the artist was or is a woman (source)
    • Software with gender information of developer, designer and the person named after source

• Development
  • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
  • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
  • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

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) 14:42, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [6][7]

Problems

• There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [9]
• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [10]
• On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [11]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
• The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [12]

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy first edit day!

{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Mike Peel, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Isro! (talk) 16:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
    • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Tuesday, March 22 at 9AM UTC: first online OpenRefine office hour for Wikimedians. Find the Zoom link and dates/times for next office hours here!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Christian Boulanger on extracting open citation data for legal theory graph project. Agenda with call link, March 22.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #34, Geometry
    • Data Reuse Days, on March 14-24: you can select the sessions you'd like to join among the many presentations, workshops and discussions in the schedule. For a recap of the event so far:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MediaWiki Lua for non-Lua programmers by Lucas Werkmeister
    • Kohesio.eu: European Commission goes Open Source
  • Videos
    • Ongoing DataReuseDays 2022 - YouTube
      • Lightning talks
      • Wikidata for performing and visual arts
      • Wikxhibit
      • How to retrieve Wikidata’s data?
      • Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data
      • Building a simple web app using Wikidata data
      • Biohackathon: report on reviewing Wikidata subsetting method
      • GeneWiki: The Wikidata Integrator
    • Cartographier des données de Wikidata avec Umap (in French) - YouTube
    • Mapping Einstein Researchers on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
  • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There are Rapid Grants available for local meetups during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 from May 20-May 22. Apply to host a social for your local community. The deadline to apply is March 27, 2022.
  • Magnus made a recent Mix’n’match improvement: List of Wikidata properties (incomplete) that could have a MnM catalog, to help create one, or tag as difficult etc.
  • Andrew put together a guide to writing SPARQL queries for the Wikidata MPs project. Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians/Building Queries
  • The proposed config change to remove the changetags right from users – so that they can apply change tags to their own actions as they are made, but not change the tags of other actions after the fact anymore – has been deployed.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID
    • External identifiers: LDT @ Library Name Authority ID, LDT @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, LDT @ Library Classification Authority ID, USP Production Repository ID, Transilien ID, United Russia member ID, MovieMeter TV season ID, Joshua Project people group ID, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, vc.ru company ID, Repetti on-line ID, Cybersport.ru ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Discover Moscow ID, ArTS author ID, IRIS UNIUD author ID, Game Informer ID, Ligue 2 player ID, Femiwiki ID, Arachne entity ID, VideoGameGeek developer ID, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, Oregon State Parks ID, Washington State Parks ID, Sport24.ru person ID, SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bhashakosha pp., local education level, hours per week, education level, time allocation, grading system, grade, ISCED-ALevel, ISCED category orientation, ISCED Broad Field, ISCED Narrow Field, ISCED Detailed Field, competency, sessions per week, applies to work, rack system, maintains consistent linking to
    • External identifiers: Kramerius of Regional Library in Pardubice UUID, USA Track & Field (www.usatf.org) athlete ID, GuideStar India Organisations-ID, DACS ID (2022), marriott hotel ID, identifiant Epigraphie, Salzburger Literatur Netz ID, Literatur Netz Oberösterreich ID, CPNI ID, QQ Music album ID, QQ Music song ID, eSbírky institution ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria item ID, Atlante Beni Culturali Calabria cultural place ID, Zotero ID, World of Waterfalls ID
  • Query examples:
    • Signature images from Wikidata (change the view to “map” to see the signatures arranged by the person’s place of birth! (source)
    • Count of UK lake items with a 'UK Lakes Portal ID' (P7548) property statement (source)
    • Travel reports by Alfred Brehm as timeline (source)
    • Timeline for the Apple "M" series of Systems on a Chip (SoC)
    • Religion of men named “Maria” (as one of their given names) (source)
    • Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (passing through Finland and Kazakhstan)
    • Map of institutions where "where people who studied there" have created written works whose main subject is knowledge graph (Q33002955), knowledge base (Q515701) and (Q33002955)
    • Colonies of Africa with their or their “main state”’s official language and ISO code

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
  • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
  • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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

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

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Tech News: 2022-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New code release schedule for this week

• There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

• You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [13]
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [14]

Future changes

• Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [15]

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Commons category sitelinks from Wikidata

Hello! Often, when I'm editing an article and notice a {{Commons category|catname}} template, I attempt to add catname as the Commons category (P373) to the corresponding Wikidata item, then remove it from the template. I believe this is desirable wherever possible and usually works as intended. However, in the case where a specific Commons category is associated with both a list related to category (P1753) and a corresponding category related to list (P1754), the Commons category only seems to be retrieved for the list article. For instance, both List of International League stadiums and Category:International League ballparks have the same associated Commons category (P373), International League stadiums, but a {{Commons category}} template without a catname only retrieves it for this article's page -- not this category's. Is there something else I need to do in order to retrieve the proper category for both? Waz⁸:T-C-E 00:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Waz8: Hi, thanks for the message, and thanks for working on this! In general it's best to avoid P373 (the template here doesn't use it, the sidebar only uses it as a fallback, and I'm trying to get it deleted), and better to set the sitelink to Commons under 'Multilingual sites' - which normally goes with a 'Category' item on Wikidata, or the 'Topic' or 'List' item where the 'Category' one doesn't exist. Where there is 'Category related to list', the code here follows the link to the category item. So it looks like it was working fine in List of International League stadiums. The issue was with Category:International League ballparks - which wasn't linked to from Wikidata, I've fixed that with this edit and it looks OK to me now - does it look right to you? For more background, you might find wikidata:User:Mike Peel/Commons linking useful, and I'm always happy to help with issues here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:29, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, it looks fine. I made the same change to the Wikidata item for Category:Pacific Coast League ballparks that you had made to the one for Category:International League ballparks and, after I added {{Commons category}} to that English Wikipedia category, the proper Commons category was shown and linked. Thanks for the explanation -- I'll use this method now. Ironically, I was using the entries under Multilingual sites when I started making Wikidata edits. One day, someone who had made thousands of Wikidata edits (but not a bot) changed the Commons sitelinks that I had added among several pages to P373 entries. So, I figured that was the proper way to enter them and started doing this instead. Thanks for putting me back on the proverbial correct track. I will bookmark your tips on Commons linking for future reference.

As for the deletion discussion, that is way beyond my minimal understanding of how Wikidata works, so I won't comment there. However, feel free to use this as a case to illustrate the confusion that having both a P373 property and a Commons sitelink can create for beginner Wikidata users. Waz⁸:T-C-E 20:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #513

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 31st March 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Live Wikidata editing on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 29 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • ArtandFeminism 2022 editathon by Achiri Bitamsimli. Theme: Add Dagbani labels and descriptions of female lawyers in West Africa. Date: April 1st, 2022 - March 8th, 2022. Location: Tamale College of Education, Ghana. Time: 9:00am — 9:00pm UTC. Register.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #77 - YouTube, Facebook, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #102, April 3rd at 12.00 UTC
    • Cultural Venues Datathon: April 25 - May 2, 2022. This online editing event is organized by the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, LaCogency and many partners, with support from Wikimedia Foundation Alliances Fund. Guided editing sessions will be facilitated in English and in French.
    • The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to underrepresented languages on the Wikimedia projects, with a focus on Wikidata, will take place online and onsite on July 1-2, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Datathon program under 2022 Wiki Women's Month started on March 18th 18:00 UTC+7 and will last until March 25th 23:59 UTC+7. 70+ users enrollled. Page.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #35, Water
  • Past:
    • Two Wikidata Training (Kelas Wikidata) on 2022 Wiki Women's Month were held online on March 12th and 13th.
    • Data Reuse Days. For a recap of the event:
      • a selection of sessions are recorded, you can find the videos here or below
      • speakers will progressively add their slides in this Commons category
      • all notes and Q&A of sessions are archived here: Wikidata:Events/Data Reuse Days 2022/Outcomes/notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Lexicographical Data for Language Learners: The Wikidata-based App Scribe
    • Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced, Wikimedia Australia
    • Wikidata’s lexemes sparked this librarian’s interest
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers: do actresses become singers and singers become actors? fact checking an intuition using Wikidata
    • Building a Web of Knowledge Through Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • LOTUS, Beyond drug discovery: Breaking the boundaries of natural products information, at the American Chemical Society (Q247556) Spring 2022 meeting
  • Papers
    • "Exploratory Methods for Relation Discovery in Archival Data" - a holistic approach to discover relations in art historical communities and enrich historians’ biographies and archival descriptions, based on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • DataReuseDays 2022 concluded. (see past events above for a full list of the recorded sessions)
    • A simple demonstration of search using QAnswer software for the disability wikibase knowledge graph - YouTube
    • FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Mix'n'match (in Italian) - YouTube
    • A Triangular Connection Libraries' Wikidata projects on names, collections and users - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Status update about what was achieved for each of the Wikibase related 2021 development goals has been published: Wikidata:Development plan/archive2021/status updates
  • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Wikidata now has over 1,600,000,000 edits! The milestone edit was made by Ruky Wunpini.
  • The Dutch National Library has a new website with more info on their use of the Wikimedia Projects including their work with Wikidata.
  • 2 months paid internship vacancy is available for Wikimedia Indonesia technology division. Registration is open until March 27th. Announcement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: documentation files at
    • External identifiers: SINGULART artist ID, eBru ID, ICCROM authority ID, Legal entity registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic ID, Rekhta book ID, ILO code, reddoorz hotel ID, Naver VIBE video ID, SberZvuk artist ID, Italian Women Writers ID, RBC company ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia person ID, Booking.com numeric ID, Agoda hotel numeric ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, RSPA modern authors ID, RSPA ancient authors ID, 1905.com film ID, Leafsnap ID, ImagesDéfense ID, TASS Encyclopedia person ID, TASS Encyclopedia country ID, TASS Encyclopedia tag ID, WIPO Pearl term ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintains consistent linking to, ocupante de / occupant of
    • External identifiers: World of Waterfalls ID, New IDU properties, My World@Mail.Ru ID, BillionGraves grave ID, Archivio Storico Intesa Sanpaolo, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia del Novecento ID, Trovo ID, Invasive.org species ID, ihg Hotel ID, Monoskop article ID, Le Monde journalist ID, Libération journalist ID, Le Parisien journalist ID, Les Échos journalist ID, L'Humanité journalist ID, L'Opinion journalist ID, Le Figaro journalist ID, Présent author ID, Aldiwan poet ID, Aldiwan poem ID, International Jewish Cemetery Project ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata knowledge graph of Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker to U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln (source)
    • Women who served as defense ministers in various countries (source)
    • UK MPs who had paired names (e.g. Owen Thomas / Thomas Owen) (source)
    • List of properties associated with items that are class/subclass of File Format (source)
    • Table frequency of properties used in instances of public libraries

• Development
  • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
  • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
  • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
  • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
  • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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) 13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [16][17]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)