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Tech News: 2022-24

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

Recent changes

• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [3]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [4]
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [5][6]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

• By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Shitalang Shah

I just created a Wikipedia article , the name is Shitalang Shah.

But immediately, same article is created in other platform by other author, He has copied ànd pasted my content directly from Wikipedia. the link are given below

theyouth.com.pk

Author Name : Web Desk

Please see this serious matter. — — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bpagla (talk • contribs) 21:23, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) - Bpagla, content on Wikipedia is licensed for reuse by anyone, as long as they attribute Wikipedia (which theyouth.com.pk/2022/06/18/shitalang-shah-wikipedia/ does). Schazjmd (talk) 21:30, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Yup, odd website, but it looks like they are giving attribution. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:40, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Integration of POTD template
  • Closed request for comments:
    • How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
    • Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
    • Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
    • (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsiaib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
    • Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
    • Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts
    • Using Wikidata Identifiers to Enhance Agent Discovery
  • Videos
    • Wikidata editing tools (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 6: Creating Wikidata items from scratch (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Fun with lexemes in some language! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
  • Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
  • Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
  • Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
    • External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
    • External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
  • Query examples:
    • Islands with at least 1 spring or freshwater body (source)
    • Notable people who you share a birthday with (find the string "1966-08-25" and replace it with your date of birth) (source)
    • List of filmmakers with whom Jean-Louis Trintignant has played (source)
    • Cemeteries in France near churches (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
    • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
    • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
    • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
  • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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: 2022-25

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

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [7]
• Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
• A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
• Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [9]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [10]

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2022

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

• In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

• Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

• Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

• Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

• Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

• Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

• Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

• Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
    • July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
    • The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
    • Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
  • Past:
    • 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
    • Practices of Linked Open Data in Archaeology and Their Realisation in Wikidata
    • What Can Tweets and Knowledge Graphs Tell Us About Eating Disorders?
  • Videos
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 7: Adding references and qualifiers to Wikidata items (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
    • The Joys of Connecting Your Collections to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata to Enhance Discovery & Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Data Quality Days Discussion With Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix
  • Other
    • Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here

• Tool of the week
  • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: inker, penciller
    • External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
    • External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
  • Query examples:
    • "Queries of the week" archive (sources)
    • Graph of fictional wars and their participants (source)
    • The 100 most common species as subjects of publications known to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of ASM Clermont Auvergne players (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
  • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
  • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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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Nomination for deletion of Template:Sort nowrap

Template:Sort nowrap has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. 2406:3003:2077:1E60:C998:20C6:8CCF:5730 (talk) 16:02, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-26

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [11]
• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [12]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [13]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Sven Rinman

Hi!

I made a section on this wiki for Sven Rinman, a Swedish reserve sailor who was nominated to the 1948 Summer Olympics but didn't participate in any events. The bot linked it to this wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30106539 which is unfortunate as the Swedish wiki article is about an artist, not this sailor. The sailor is actually not listed at Swedish wikipedia at all, neither of the three (!) Sven Rinman listed at Swedish wikipedia is this guy. -- Lejman (talk) 06:30, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

@Lejman: The bot saw the same name and the same year of birth and assumed they were the same person. I've now moved it to a new item at Sven Rinman (Q112762850). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:36, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Yeah, made sense, I just didn't know how to fix it =) -- Lejman (talk) 07:51, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #522

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [14] should have a wiki commons link to [15] since they both refer to [16].

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
    • Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
  • Past
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
    • Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
    • Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
    • Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
    • Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
  • Report
    • User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
  • Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
    • External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
    • Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
    • Map of tram depots in France
    • Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
    • List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
    • French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
    • French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
    • Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
    • Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
    • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
  • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
  • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [17]

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

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

Administrator changes

AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl

Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VI, June 2022 Headlines Albania report: CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: In the middle of new projects Australia report: A celebration, a commitment, an edit-a-thon: Know My Name returns for 2022 Belgium report: Heritage and Wikimedian in Residence Brazil report: FIRST WikiCon Brazil & Three States of GLAM Croatia report: Network(ing) effect(s) France report: French open content report promotion Italy report: Opening and closing projects in June Kosovo report: Edit-a-thon with Kino Lumbardhi; DokuTech; CEE Spring 2022 in Albania and Kosovo New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large and Auckland Museum updates Poland report: Wikipedian in residence in the National Museum in Cracow; The next online meeting within the cycle of monthly editing GLAM meetings; Steps to communicate GLAM partnerships better and involve the Wikimedian community Sweden report: 100 000 memories from the Nordic Museum; Report from the Swedish National Archives Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program UK report: Featured images and cultural diversity USA report: Fifty Women Sculptors; Juneteenth Edit-a-thon; Juneteenth Photobooths 2022; Wiknic June 2022; New York Botanical Garden June 2022; LGBT Pride Month Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Structured data on Commons editing now possible with OpenRefine 3.6; file uploading with 3.7 Calendar: July'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 #528

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, July 27th 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 presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
    • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
  • Past:
    • Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
    • Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
    • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
    • Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
    • Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
    • Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Papers
    • Wikidata and the bibliography of life (Q112959127)
  • Videos
    • Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
    • Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
  • User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
  • Q113000000 was created.
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
  • Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: opus number
    • External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
    • External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
  • Query examples:
    • Current list of French departments (documentation)
    • Prime ministers of Japan whose manner of death is homicide (source)
    • 1st level administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • List of globes and how many times they've been used

• Development
  • Data Quality Days!
  • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
  • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
  • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
    • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
    • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
  • REST API:
    • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
    • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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
  • Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
  • 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) 13:30, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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

Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [18]
• It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [19]
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Eunice Foote

Okay, well yours is the only name I recognize on the Physics Project and I need help. If you are too busy, or not interested, I totally understand but am hoping that you can then give me a referral to someone who can help me. For Women in Red's year-long climate initiative, I decided to work on Eunice Foote. She seems pivotal and the article was in pretty bad shape. While I am good at history, research, and women's rights, physics is way above my pay grade. I have been working through the article section by section and all I have left to (re)write is the 21st century part. However, I shall start on it tomorrow. I am wondering if you could review the discussion about her scientific works in the next few days or so to ensure that there isn't anything that I have misconstrued? My goal is to take it to GA this month for Women in Green's initiative running in July and then possibly on to FA. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. SusunW (talk) 22:10, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

@SusunW: I can try to have a look, although I'm not sure when. Perhaps @Femke: might be better suited to help, though? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:50, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Any help would be appreciated whether from you or Femke. SusunW (talk) 13:05, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Normally I would have loved to help, but I'm unfortunately beset by brain fog from a COVID reinfection last month. Femke (talk) 16:03, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Femke I sincerely hope that your recovery is quick. As I said, I am still trying to work through the rediscovery section. It's been slow going because I want to get it right, previous editors had used blogs and either directly copied text or inserted copied text without citation. It's also a case where her story was lost for over 100 years, so I was unsure if current writers were regurgitating other recent work on her or if it actually was part of the historic record. Basically, I have followed a path of meticulously confirming her biographical history with primary sources, while using modern scholarship to evaluate her discoveries. If you know of anyone else who might help, that would be fantastic. SusunW (talk) 17:24, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:Political history of Austria-Hungary

Hi Mike, you've denied my G6 CSD request at Category:Political history of Austria-Hungary [20]. I'm not the most experienced CFD closer, but I have a few dozen closures under my belt. Per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions § Manual implementation of the closure, merge discussion result in the merged category being deleted, unless Wikipedia:Category redirects that should be kept applies. I am not sure why you've made the determination that this one should turned into a redirect? Thanks. JBchrch talk 09:45, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

@JBchrch: Redirects are cheap. But as you prefer, it's now deleted. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #529

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
    • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
  • Past
    • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Barassi Line: a globally unique divider splitting Australia’s footy fans
    • Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata
    • Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia
    • My GLAMorous introduction into the Wikiverse
  • Papers
    • Enriching Wikidata with Linked Open Data
  • Videos
    • Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
    • Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
    • The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
    • Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Threads
    • OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.

• Tool of the week
  • EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
  • User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job openings:
    • AFLIA: Wikidata Course Manager/Facilitator
    • WMF: Senior Program Officer, Libraries at Wikimedia Foundation
  • There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
    • External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of recent heatwaves (source)
    • Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
    • Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
    • Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
    • Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
    • People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
  • Newest database reports:
    • Albums ranked by number of sitelinks

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
    • Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
  • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
  • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
  • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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

• The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)