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Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
    • Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
    • William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Books
    • Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
  • Blogs
    • Most notable person, everywhere in the world
    • Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
    • Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
    • Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
    • Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
  • Papers
    • Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
  • Videos
    • New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
    • Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
    • Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
    • External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
    • External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
    • Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
    • Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
    • Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
    • Places named after Lenin (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
    • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
  • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
  • REST API:
    • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
    • Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, 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) 14:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

• GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [1]

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 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
  • Ongoing:
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
    • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
  • Papers
    • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
    • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
  • Videos
    • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
      • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
      • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
    • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
    • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
    • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
    • Wikidata tutorials:
      • Add the official street address of an institution
      • Add visitor numbers to an institution
    • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
      • Adding an institution's official website
      • Create a Wikimedia Account
      • Adding a webpage

• Tool of the week
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
  • Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
    • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
    • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
    • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
    • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
    • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
    • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
    • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

• Development
  • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
  • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
  • REST API:
    • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
    • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [2][3][4]

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21:06, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (successful)
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
    • Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past events:
    • Clutch sprint August 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
  • Videos
    • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
    • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
      • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
      • Partner Up for Wikidata!
      • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
      • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
  • Tutorial
    • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

• Tool of the week
  • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
  • Template:Documented queries skeleton
  • Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
  • OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
    • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
    • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
    • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
    • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
    • Journals with the most retractions (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
  • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
  • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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) 15:39, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

• Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [7]

Future changes

• The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [8]

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00:09, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #535

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Small wiki toolkits/Workshops#Writing Wikidata queries using the WDQS tool
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
  • Past:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
    • Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
    • Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
    • Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
  • Papers
    • DrNote: An open medical annotation service
  • Videos
    • [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
    • Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
    • Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)

• Tool of the week
  • SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
  • The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
  • The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
  • Open vacancy:
    • Wikimedia Indonesia - Technology internships in the GLAM and Wikidata fields

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
    • External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
    • External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations as classified by ISCO/ESCO (source)
    • Occupation of people in the New Zealand Thesis Project (source)
    • Average weights and heights of sportsmen (source)
    • Letters by numbers of alphabet where they are found (source)

• Development
  • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:47, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

• In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:02, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2022

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

• In focus: Thinking inside the box

• Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...

• Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

• Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

• Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

• Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links

• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

• Essay: Delete the junk!

• Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)

• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:57, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
    • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
  • Papers
    • Prompting as Probing: Using Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Find museums without official website on Wikidata
      • Add coordinates of an institution
      • Different ways to display SPARQL queries
      • How to enter a personal record of a certain person on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
    • External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
    • External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
    • Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
    • Education of French prefects (source)
    • Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
    • Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
    • Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
    • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
    • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
  • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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: 2022-36

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 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [10][11]

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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
    • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
    • Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
      • Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
    • All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship

• Tool of the week
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
  • Job opening:
    • Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
    • External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
  • Query examples:
    • Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
    • Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
    • Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
    • Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
    • Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
    • Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)

• Development
  • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
  • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
  • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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: 2022-37

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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [13]

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01:47, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #538

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • بوٹ دا عثمان
      • Task/s:
        • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
        • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
    • The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
    • Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
  • Papers
    • Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
    • Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
    • WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
    • Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
    • Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
    • Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
      • Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
      • Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
    • ContribuLing 2021
      • Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
      • Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
      • Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
  • Dataviz
    • A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
  • Presentation
    • New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022

• Tool of the week
  • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
    • External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
    • External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
    • Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
    • List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
    • Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
    • People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
    • French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
    • Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
    • World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
    • Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
    • Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
    • Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
    • Cause of death of US presidents by party

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
    • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
    • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
    • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
  • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
  • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
  • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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) 15:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38

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

• Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [14][15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
• In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [16][17]

Future changes

• In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

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

• 🧵 Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • JhsBot 6
      • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
  • Papers
    • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
    • How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
    • BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
  • Presentations
    • Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
  • The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
    • External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
  • Query examples:
    • Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
    • Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
    • Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
    • Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
    • Song titles that match female given names (source)
    • Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
    • Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
    • Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
    • People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
    • Software license, by year (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Hiking trails

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
  • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
  • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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) 15:23, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39

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

• Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
• Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [18]
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [19] [20]
• In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:27, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2022

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

• Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content

• Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

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

Administrator changes

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Staxringold

Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678

CheckUser changes

GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Tech News: 2022-40

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

Recent changes

• Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [22] [23]
• The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [24] [25]
• The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #540

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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) 13:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
• On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [26][27]

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14:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #541

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

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
    • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
  • Ongoing
    • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
  • Past
    • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
    • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
    • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
  • Dataviz
    • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
    • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image
    • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
    • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
    • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
    • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
    • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
    • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
    • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
    • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
    • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
  • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
  • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
  • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #542

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
    • RobertgarrigosBOT
      • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
    • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
    • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
    • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
  • Papers
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
    • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
  • Dataviz
    • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
    • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
    • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
  • The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
  • The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
  • Job opening
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
    • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
    • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
    • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
    • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
    • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
    • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
    • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
  • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
  • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
  • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
  • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
  • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
  • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
  • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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) 17:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42

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

Recent changes

• The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [28]
• A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
• Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [29]
• Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [30]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [31]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)