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Tech News: 2019-48

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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [1]
• Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [3]

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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #392

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

• Events
  • Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
  • Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
  • Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
  • Past: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
  • Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).

• Tool of the week
• Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
  • Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
  • Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
  • New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
    • External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
    • External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings of people with cats (source)
    • Number of English Lexemes in Wikidata by first letter (source)
    • Tree map of 1990s National Film Award winners, sorted by specific award (source)
    • Map of world's disputed areas (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
  • Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson

• Development
  • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
  • More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
  • Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
  • More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
  • Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
  • Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
  • Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
  • Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:18, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

• For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

• Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
• Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
• Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
• Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

• A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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• From the editor: Put on your birthday best

• News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

• In the media: You say you want a revolution

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

• Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

• Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

• Gallery: Winter and holidays

• Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

• Essay: Adminitis

• From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

• In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

• Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Wikidata weekly summary #393

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 call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
  • Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, Royal Library of Belgium, City of Brussels.
  • Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
  • Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
  • Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ

• Tool of the week
  • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
  • Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: covered period
    • External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
    • External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar (source)
    • Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en") (source)
    • Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list (source)
  • Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne

• Development
  • Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
  • Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
  • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
  • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
  • Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
  • Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
  • Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

• Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [4]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [5]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #394

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
  • Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  • Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
  • Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
    • How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
    • How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill

• Tool of the week
  • overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: file page
    • External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
    • External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages (source)
    • Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata (source)
    • Movie directors having the longest carrier (source)

• Development
  • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
  • Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
  • DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
  • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
  • Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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 projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [6]
• There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [7]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:37, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 4

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Recent additions

• A new "fast" mode has been introduced. When used, the watchlist serves as just a list of pages that have been modified, and no longer includes context about the edits themselves.
• More information has been added to entries. When edits are not grouped by page, or when there is only 1 edit to a page, minor and bot flags are shown, as well as the user who made the edit, the summary used, and any tags that were applied. When multiple entries are grouped, bot and minor flags are only shown if all of the grouped edits were made by bots or where marked as minor. If only 1 user edited the page, that user's name is still shown, but no summaries or tags are included.
• All watchlists are now fetched in parallel, rather than in series, greatly reducing load time.

Technical notes

• Most of the source code is now annotated with jsdoc notes, allowing others to more clearly understand and review the code.
• I will be looking into creating guidelines to let others contribute to the script; see phab:T238298.

Translations

• There is now proper qqq documentation for translations. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
• Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.

Next release

Version 7.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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Weekly Summary #395

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • More WikidataCon 2019 reports:
    • WikidataCon 2019 report on the Latvian Wikipedia
    • Wikidata+OSM at State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

• Tool of the week
  • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following a discussion on generalizing P2572 to all hashtags and the rejections of Instagram hashtag, Flickr tag, and Gfycat tag properties propositions, the formerly 'Twitter hashtag' property is now a platform-agnostic hashtag (P2572) property. A tool was created to be used as formatter url and link to those different platforms regrouping content by hashtags: toolforge:hashtags-hub.
  • New tool: WDumper, generating customized Wikidata RDF dumps. More information
  • Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
  • MediaWiki Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: superfamicom.org ID, nominalized form, PlayStation DataCenter ID, implies
    • External identifiers: Aberdeenshire HER ID, e-WV ID, Français libres ID, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, Musée de la Résistance ID, National Library of Lithuania ID, Slovak National Library ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Spanish Quora topic ID, Europeana Entity, SNESmusic.org company ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Joconde author ID, Joconde domain ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, tDAR creator ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, Vaare falne ID, Complex Portal accession ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Differential diagnosis, part of terminology, voice gender, verifiability of property, study type, NIPS Proceedings author ID, field of training, litter size, Copyright status of author, academic appointment, written at, legislative committee, Member of military unit, access status of contents, EAN-13, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Computer Emuzone ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PlanetMath, Natural Product Atlas ID, EEPS ID, screenscraper platform ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, ScreenScraper game ID, Nonfiction ID, ScreenScraper company ID, National September 11 Memorial ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID, PS photographer ID, deviantArt, Frick Art Reference Library Artist File Names ID, LiverTox ID, ScreenScraper group ID, ZX81 Collection ID, Netherlands Photo Museum photographer ID, Movie Walker person ID, ZX81 Collection publisher ID, IDFA film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata properties > 7000
    • Wikidata External identifiers > 4590
    • Map of locations of "big cities" (source)
    • Seats which changed party in the 2019 UK General Election (source) (mapped)
    • artists in Wikidata mapped to the Swedish National museums but are not an entity in Europeana (image view)
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Human Rights (created to support m:WikiForHumanRights)

• Development
  • Work on deploying the first version of tainted references on test Wikidata
  • Bridge: show an error dialog if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Set up a shared Vue component library for Wikibase (phab:T240329)
  • More work on the new term store
  • Add Wikidata support for mnwwiki" (phab:T235745)
  • New languages for monolingual strings: mfa, ckt, abq-Latn, dag
  • Help identifying an issue with QuickStatements when one user is blocked on Wikidata (phab:T240316)
  • Hide non-supported languages in the termbox (phab:T227083)

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

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

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Tech News: 2019-51

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 Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [8]
• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [9]

Changes later this week

• You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [11]

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00:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

• All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [12]

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20:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 December 2019

• From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

• News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

• Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

• In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

• Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

• Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

• Technology report: User scripts and more

• Gallery: Holiday wishes

• Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

• From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

• WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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Wikidata weekly summary #396

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last 2 weeks.

• Discussions:
  • New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
  • Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
  • Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
  • Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
  • How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
  • MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
  • We now have Q80000000
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer

• 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:
    • Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
    • Locations where paintings were made (source)
    • Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
    • Oldest subways (source)
    • Popes who were children of other popes (source)
    • Colorful flags (source)

• Development
  • Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
  • Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
  • Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
  • Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
  • Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
  • Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

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

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Wikidata weekly summary #397

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

• Events
  • New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th

• Tool of the week
  • Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
    • External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
    • External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID
  • Query examples:
    • Horses sorted by age of death (source)
    • Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action (source)
    • 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
    • Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
    • Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)

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

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Tech News: 2020-02

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

Changes later this week

• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #398

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

• Events
  • Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
  • Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
  • Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
  • Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
    • External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
    • External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
  • Query examples:
    • Locations depicted on album covers
    • Forts and heritage-scheduled sections of the Antonine Wall in Scotland (source)
    • Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language (source)

• Development
  • More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
  • Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
  • Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
  • Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
  • Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
  • Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-03

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

Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [14]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [15]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [17]
• You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [18]

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Wikidata weekly summary #399

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
  • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [19]
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
    • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
  • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
  • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
  • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
  • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
  • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
  • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
  • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-04

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 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [20]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [21]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

• News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

• Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

• In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

• Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

• News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

• Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

• In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

• Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

• From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

• Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

• Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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Wikidata weekly summary #400

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

• Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
  • Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
  • The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
  • The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
  • Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
  • Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
  • Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
  • From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
  • Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
  • Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
  • List of 400m distance sports events.
  • 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
  • List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
  • Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
  • Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
  • Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th

• Tool of the week
  • Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
  • OpenRefine usage survey 2020
  • Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
    • External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
    • External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID
  • Query examples:
    • The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
    • Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
    • 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms migration
  • Units support for quantity datatype (phab:T239474)
  • Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (phab:T222257)
  • More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
  • Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (phab:T243269, phab:T242212)
  • Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (phab:T234789)
  • Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-05

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

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [22][23]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [24]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Global watchlist - Update 5

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Future development

• I have requested a grant to fund conversion of this script into an extension, as well as further development. Please see m:Grants:Project/Create a global watchlist extension.
• If anyone is interested in reviewing the code and making suggestions regarding coding style, techniques, or something else, please let me know. See phab:T234507 for more.

Recent additions

• I have added basic tests for the script, so bugs should be less likely to make their way to the deployed versions of the script (both the unstable development version, and the stable release version).
• If there is an error with the script, the user will be notified and and the console will include a stack trace of the issue.

Translations

• Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
• Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.

Next release

• Version 8.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:25, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [25]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Wikidata weekly summary #401

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mike Peel

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham

• Tool of the week
  • VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
  • 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
  • Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
  • Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
  • OpenRefine 3.3 was released

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
    • External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
    • Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
    • Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
    • Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)

• Development
  • Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
  • Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
  • Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
  • More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
  • More work on wb_terms migration

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script

Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted • Majavah's unslashifier

Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight

BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions

Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.

Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency.
Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous

Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).

If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;

this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests
A number of requests are listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests#Some ideas.
Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to:

• expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
• highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
• hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
• show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #402

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc

• Events
  • Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
  • Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
  • WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
  • Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
  • Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.

• Tool of the week
  • Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
  • Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
  • "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
  • Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
  • Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
  • There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
  • Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
    • External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID
  • Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
    • Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
    • Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
    • List of this year’s Academy Awards winners

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
  • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
  • Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
  • Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
  • Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
  • Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
  • Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)

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

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

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Tech News: 2020-07

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

Recent changes

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [26]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [27]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [28]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #403

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

• Discussions
  • Versionize property definitions ?
  • Closed request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf

• Tool of the week
  • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
  • Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
  • Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
    • External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
    • External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register
  • Query examples:
    • Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
    • Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
    • Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
    • Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
    • Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
  • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
  • Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
  • Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
  • Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
  • Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
  • Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
  • Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:16, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08

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

Recent changes

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [29][30]

Changes later this week

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

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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #404

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
  • Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)

• Events
  • Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
  • When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
  • Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
  • soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
  • Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
    • External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
    • External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
  • Query examples:
    • Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
    • SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
    • countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
    • places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
    • Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)

• Development
  • Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
  • Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
  • making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
  • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
  • showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
  • More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
  • Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
  • Fixing various issues causing errors in production
  • Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
  • Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:30, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script

Amorymeltzer's History button links • Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector

Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests

Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level

Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests

• A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
• A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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