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The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Wikidata weekly summary #614
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
- New request for permissions/Bot:
- SamoasambiaBot - Adding coordinate values from fiwiki articles, and 2.) adding location statements based on the coordinates.
- MidleadingBot 5 - Create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
- Closed request for comments:
- Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion":
Moto GP Riders Links, Improve performance of label, description and alias retrieval, Create massive changes in one property for specific categories/properties, Auto analysis and breakdown of links (for social account reference), Separating citations from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata, Items for external links - Closure reason listed as "No Consensus":
Remove watchlist summary, Unify GO articles and enzyme articles - Closure reason listed as "Stale":
Potd, Population data model, Handling of data objects for pages in project namespace, Shouldn't there be a feature adding Qualifiers inside Qualifiers?, Auto sorting according to weight assigned, Should we create new properties for beaches, Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?, A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata, Structured path for property definition changes, Improved instructions for translation admin
- Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion":
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
- Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
- Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Wikidata Challenges in the Semantic Web Community by Andrea Westerinen. This presentation was given at the Data Modelling Days conference.
- Comparative Study on the Approaches of Name Authority Control and Wikidata Identity Management pages 63 - 74 of the Proceedings of the 18th International ISKO Conference (2024). Authored by Chen C. & Yuxuan Z.
- Videos
- Connecting People, Connecting Archives Project (CACP) – Wikidata Workshop (Arabic). Archivists and scholars collaborated to align objectives and methods for the Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project. The aim of the workshop was to understand biographical data in archives.
- Wikibase SPARQL Demo A live demo of the SPARQL MediaWiki extension during the February 2024 Wikibase Stakeholder Group meetup.
- Podcasts: Between the Brackets, Episode 155 - Alan Ang and Kris Litson discuss Wikidata partnerships and outreach.
- Notebooks
- Mapping of a director's work a tool which explores the narrative locations of works directed by a filmmaker.
- Mapping of a writer's work : a tool which explores the narrative locations of works written by an author.
Tool of the week
- A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata development goals for 2024 Q1 has been updated: Wikidata:Development plan
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- official list URL (URL of a website listing instances of the subject, maintained by the authority on the subject)
- Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
- semantic derivation (links a lexeme sense to a particular sense it is derived from)
- date of application (date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier)
- Newest External identifiers: VMH ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web version), Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, LoverFans ID, DigiListan artist ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID, Qantas hotel ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, IFOPT stop ID, Jinji Koshinjyo ID (1st edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (4th edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (8th edition), TheTVDB season ID, TheTVDB company ID, TheTVDB award ID, Kialo ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Myths on Maps identifier, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, XWord Info author ID, Bluesky DID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Lobbypedia ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, VD 17 ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- smells of ()
- moment of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
- url namespace (URL prefix behind which values of this property can be found using a search engine)
- ultima verba (last words spoken by a subject)
- Performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Mémoire des lieux d'un bâtiment, PlaymakerStats.com executive ID, Identifiant du Référentiel national des bâtiments, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Shamela Author ID, Oxford English Dictionary object identifier, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, Trakt-Film-ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Popular Items without claims (Items with the most links but without statements)
- Showcase Items: Airbus (Q67) - European aircraft manufacturer
- Showcase Lexemes: sala (L578377) - translates to "human" or "charcoal" in Dagbanli
Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
- We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
- We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
- IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
- mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: January 2024
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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer 
Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts (submissions) and 
Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #615
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
- New request for permissions/Bot:
- CJMBot - let users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside is validated and processed, creating new items or updating existing items by adding statements and references.
- MidLeadingBot_5 - create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
- Closed request for comments: Revamping Birth related properties the use of P1545-Series ordinal was recommended.
- Knowledge Graphs and large Language Models (KALLM) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Call for Papers (details) has begun (deadline May 10th)
- WMF Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024! Sign up by Wednesday, March 15th.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- What does it take to become a Spotify artist? - Skoove blog uses Wikidata and other databases to put together an infographic.
- WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians (GLAM newsletter)
- Love Data Week - My Kind of Data by Ali Smith. Shared relevant links to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
- Papers
- Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers - with detailed discussion of curation of taxon-related information in Wikidata
- Wikidata for Teaching Biology: Coloration in Felines (Spanish) - a paper that showcases Wikidata as a learning tool for students through the use of properties and statements applied to biological entities can enhance students computational and informational skills, by Marín1 D. & Michán L.
- LIS Journals' Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Willey, E. & Radovsky S., Vol. 7 No.1 (2024) of the Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
- Videos
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
- Wikisource and Wikidata - when 2 cool kids play together. Session given by Bodhisattwa.
- Wikidata + Education + Heritage - hosted by Sailesh Patnaik (WMF) & Nat Hernández Clavijo (WMU)
- Using Wikidata integration on Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-Wiki content sharing - hosted by Mike Peel (WMB/WMF volunteer) & João Peschanski (WMB)
- Advancing Drinking Water Justice at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Conference discusses how Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud can help address differences in data quality (at the 55:00 minute mark)
- Mapping Graiguenamanagh Heritage Trail 2 - shows how to create a Heritage walking trail and add subject:wikidata to plaques to OpenStreetMap
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
- Notebooks
- Au bord de l'eau Mapping Wikidata's items next to a body of water using P206 property.
Tool of the week
- MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
- WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Environmental Performance Index (measure of understanding environmental performance and sustainability for 180 countries)
- age of onset of sexual maturity (the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually)
- Beta Code (representation of Ancient Greek as ASCII characters)
- phonetic value (phonetic value of signs/characters)
- civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
- Newest External identifiers: Dongqiudi.com team ID, Nintendo eShop (Europe) ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Sundance Institute Archive film ID, Sundance Institute Archive event ID, Sundance Institute Archive person ID, notify.moe anime ID, Swetrails POI-ID, UT.no ID, The StoryGraph author ID, X place ID, nixpkgs path, Shamela author ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- is invariant under (subject is preserved by this process / function / group of transformation)
- formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
- location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
- SMIRKS (A superset of "reaction SMILES" and a subset of "reaction SMARTS", is a line notation for specifying reaction transforms.)
- appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
- in service of (qualifier, which must be used when a person is in the service of a settlement or institution through his position)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, government.ru person ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID, British Listed Buildings Online ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Souls Grown Deep ID, OHDSI ID, identifiant Trismegistos d'une divinité, Encyclopedia Sindhiana entry, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, GNM ID, AniSearch anime ID, livechat.me anime ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, Texas Legislator ID, Company ID number (Slovenia), Weird Gloop article ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, literatura.kg person ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Library and Information Science - this new Wikiproject aims to identify and fill gaps in LIS-related content. If you are interested in the areas of librarianship, information studies, metadata and indexing; then please consider joining!
- Political murders in the Weimar Republic - Collect historic political murders in the Weimar Republic e.g. through historic newspaper articles or scientific articles.
- Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims
- Showcase Items: Cactaceae (Q14560) - family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
- Showcase Lexemes: ग़रीब को कौड़ी अशरफ़ी है/غریب کو کوڑی اشرفی ہے (L656971) Hindustani proverb that translates to "a farthing is a pound to one who is poor"
Development
- The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
- The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
- IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
- We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
- We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
- We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (phab:T355293)
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
Wikidata weekly summary #617
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
<translate> Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
- Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!
</translate> <translate> Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
- Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
- Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
</translate> <translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 2023 Year Review by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud.
- Wikidata Literary Influencers by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data
- Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T.
- Videos
- Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit.
- Dancing Digital Project with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
- WikiPod AI - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
- Notebooks: TTTTRPG - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.
</translate> <translate> Tool of the week
- User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
- Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
- Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').
</translate> <translate> Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- has cabinet (value is the advisory committee to the item's head of state)
- ISCED field (mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED))
- appeals to (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
- location information URL (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator)
- phonographic copyright (person or organization that holds the phonographic copyright)
- is invariant under (subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of transformation)
- formatter URL for IIIF manifest (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID)
- PyPI trove classifier (standardized classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python Package Index)
- graduation rate (proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given timeframe)
- normal graduation time (expected or typical duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation)
- multiplier of normal graduation time (how much longer than "normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the "graduation rate (P12469)")
- top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
- Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, TopKar ID, Mindat taxon ID, China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, FrameNet frame ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Archives départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, National Buildings Repository identifier, Location Memory building ID, JSTOR Global Plants type specimen ID, EDIT16 catalogue title ID, EDIT16 catalogue place ID, Trismegistos god ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Weird Gloop article ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
- Castradenumber (number for a registred subject in a Castrade)
- latest end date ((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true))
- anthesis start (time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering)
- leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID, GARAE, WhatPub pub ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, UCA authority ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, European Union trade mark number, GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID
</translate> <translate> You can comment on all open property proposals! </translate> <translate>
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships
- Properties for UK lakes (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
- WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
- Newest database reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID
- Showcase Items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) - species of reptile
- Showcase Lexemes: scala (L683571) - "stairs" in Italian
</translate> <translate> Development
- IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
- We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
- We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
- We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)
</translate> <translate> 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. </translate> <translate> Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: #128 Languages
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews- Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
- AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
- Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
- MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
- Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to 
Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
Wikidata weekly summary #618
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
- Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
- BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
- LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
- Events
- Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024
- Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
- Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
- Observable tutorial for Wikidata users (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
- Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
- Videos
- OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
- Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
- Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
- Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- top scorer (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- television judge (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor)
- Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
- SMIRKS (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions)
- thesaurus's main topic (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
- thesaurus combines topics (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics)
- topic's main thesaurus (main Wikimedia theasurus)
- latest end date (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)
- rug style (classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern)
- performing organization (organization that received funding to create this entity)
- External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID, Brazzers ID, Tekściory artist ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, British Listed Buildings ID, GNM ID, 2GIS place-ID, 2GIS route-ID, livechart.me anime ID, Trakt.tv film ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, WhatPub pub ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, literatura.kg person ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, UCA authority ID, European Union trademark number, ONIX codelist ID, GCatholic episcopal conference ID, Oxford English Dictionary object ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, nimi.li ID, Nye ord i dansk ID, OHDSI ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID, ICANNWiki page ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID, Köztérkép creator ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
- Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
- Hindawi Foundation book ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]])
- A New Nation Votes ID (ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825)
- form decomposition (form decomposition)
- Ludzie Nauki ID (identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists)
- Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
- External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Saudipedia ID, DLE entry ID, Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme), COBISS ID, DWDS sense ID, museum-digital tag ID, Gematsu event ID, RERO+ ID, Premier League player ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, 11v11 player ID, OSL ID, EJ Atlas ID, Statbunker player ID, BFO class ID, Combine OverWiki ID, Autores Galegos na BUSC
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
- Did you know?
- Query examples:
- 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan - a good example for finding knowledge gaps.
- Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project.
- Newest WikiProjects: Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
- Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)
- Showcase Items: Zootopia - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers.
- Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.
- Query examples:
- Development
- IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
- Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.
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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