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Tech News: 2021-27

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Recent changes

AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [1]

Problems

InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [2]

Changes later this week

The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [3][4]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [5]

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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Unblock

@Alexis Jazz:, apparently, you were wrong.

Anyhow, I have been wanting to get you unblocked or at least partially unblocked on Wikimedia Commons by starting a discussion. But I don't want to (unintentionally) do more harm for you than good. While I often disagree with you, I find that most of the time you build your arguments really well and always build them up using logic and good examples and I think that it's a darn shame that you are not utilising your talents for the WC now. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:38, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

No I wasn't.

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Allowing non-administrator users to have access to deleted pages would vastly increase the frequency and volume of legal complaints. (It could have even worse consequences than that in the long term, up to and including corrective legislation by Congress, which would be a disaster.) It is difficult to overstate how much legal and practical difficulty this would cause the Foundation. To be frank, community adoption of such a disastrous policy would create an actual emergency that would likely require Board intervention. I normally favor and support community-driven initiatives, so please believe me when I say I am not raising this set of concerns lightly. The current system is not broken -- so the best advice is 'don't fix it.' MikeGodwin (talk) 13:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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— 13:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC) Mike Godwin, then legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation

— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 10:43, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

The example of ptwiki is interesting, but probably doesn't matter. It should be noted that ptwiki banned IP-editing despite developers saying "ain't gonna happen", so WP:IAR is high on their agenda. Also, it doesn't matter what you call an administrator. Deleters on ptwiki can delete and restore content and if I understand correctly are vetted the same way administrators are. They may not be able to block users, use massmessage or modify the abuse filter but that's legally irrelevant. For all intents and purposes they might actually be administrators, legally speaking. The lawyers get nervous when you either allow users to access deleted pages without being able to delete anything or when you make the vetting process less strict. For the "general maintainer" proposal back in the day, I envisioned a very lax vetting process so I had to exclude undelete. Thanks btw for your consideration to try and help with an unblock. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:00, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz:, I count only 98 Deleters as of today. I will check the Portuguese-language Wikipedia's archives to see what was discussed when they were created. I also envision page-viewers to be vetted in a similar process as admins, like Maintainers, but as admins have more privileges I imagine that the elections would be easier to pass and that being a "general maintainer" would become a prerequisite for any future admin. Thankfully I can understand written Portuguese so I will read up on Deleters. --Donald Trung (talk) 15:10, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VI, June 2021
Headlines
AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: African Librarians Week 2021 Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: A course on opening cultural collections Belgium report: Edit-a-thons with Wiki Women Design Brazil report: A metadata roundtripping model for museums France report: European Archaeology Days; Edit-a-thon in Romanity Museum Guinea report: GLAM with Harmattan Guinée 15 June 2021 in Conakry Italy report: Festival and edit-a-thon dedicated to the world of archives Netherlands report: Training at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; training for Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean has concluded New Zealand report: Making artists visible Serbia report: Wikidata development and culture of Rudnik and Takovo region Spain report: Museums writing challenge and Viquimarató Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Sweden report: Free music; Kulturarv som gymnasiearbete; Statistics Sweden – now as open data; KTH library training Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections Ukraine report: #1Lib1Ref in Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Meetup/CCCCWI; Vaccine Safety Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; San Diego Wiknic; Black Lunch Table / Black visual artists Special story: Play, experiment and cross borders at Hack4OpenGLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts Structured Data on Commons development and is searching for two developers WMF GLAM report: Conferences and Structured data modeling Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-28

The winner this Translation of the week is

en:El Palo Alto

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El Palo Alto (Spanish for 'the tall pole' or 'post') is a coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located in El Palo Alto Park on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, United States. It is famous for its historical significance and as the namesake of the city of Palo Alto. As of July 2016, El Palo Alto is currently 110 feet (33.5 meters) in height, down from 162.2 feet (49.4 meters) in 1814. Its top progressively died from 1865 to 1955 from lowering of the water table so that its roots could no longer reach sustenance.

(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)

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Gravedancing

@Alexis Jazz:, pinging you here as I prefer not to make any enemies of the people that frequent your talk page, but I saw this move changing from "not necessarily" to a more definite "not" indicating that it's never gravedancing. But isn't blanking the user pages of blocked users simply and only because they are blocked literally gravedancing? I always found it a curious practice as it has never been established as policy and people just started doing it to unperson blocked people for whatever reason. I also find it odd that there is literally no opposition to this useless blanking of user pages. Often I see users that all they do is list their featured articles and DYK's and have their pages blanked for simply being blocked. This isn't done to all users, for example Koavf isn't blanked even though it is much more autobiographical than most, so what are the criteria for blanking? Because to my understanding it mostly happens to those that have made "enemies" that want to unperson them basically always making it gravedancing. --Donald Trung (talk) 17:29, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
I agree. Also, I undid that move. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:49, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz:, honestly, I am more somewhat curious as to why such a thing became widespread culture among most Wikimedia websites. I Noticed that this actually isn't a thing at the Dutch-language Wikipedia but is here, at the French-language Wikipedia they also blank talk pages.

Anyhow, any advice for me on how to present the "Page-viewers" right? we largely agreed that it should be an elected right but I haven't had much time for the rest of the proposal yet. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:17, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
I'd have to think about that. But I have doubts that proposal will make it, even with the best presentation. I could be wrong, of course. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:56, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning OTRS in the discussion. I remembered undelete for OTRS has been discussed before: c:Commons:Village pump/Proposals/Archive/2011/11#OTRS member permissions.

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We are always respectful of and impressed by community initiatives. For that reason, it is tough for us to put a barrier in front of folks who are sincerely seeking a solution to a challenge. So our apologies in advance, but, to be honest, it will be difficult for WMF to support the proposed solution in this case.

Please allow me to explain in brief. With this proposal, WMF is concerned about possible increased liability for the Foundation and OTRS agents. Sensitive legal matters may be deleted, and, for that reason, increasing the size of the group who can view such deleted material could arguably increase WMF's liability. In addition, OTRS agents could risk personal liability by undeleting content that had been originally deleted for legal reasons (either by the community or WMF). We appreciate the opportunity to be consulted, and we are sorry we cannot support this. Geoffbrigham (talk) 17:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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— 17:31, 6 November 2011 (UTC) Geoff Brigham, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation

— Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 01:14, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz:, odd but, why do you keep mentioning the ability to undelete? Page viewers wouldn't be able to undelete anything and only see deleted files after passing through a system identical to RFA, if passed. The Portuguese-language Wikipedia's "eliminators" already function like this. The previous proposal for OTRS members to view deleted content was rejected because of the fact that OTRS members are appointed and not elected. --Donald Trung (talk) 04:50, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Brigham mentioned both "view such deleted material could arguably increase WMF's liability" and "risk personal liability by undeleting content". Granted, the latter doesn't apply to your proposal. Brigham's statement is only slightly more recent than Godwin's statement though, so the simplest way would be to ask Legal if they would be okay with page viewers. Eliminators on ptwiki aren't the same, they can delete too making them admins in all relevant ways, even if they don't have the actual title. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:44, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #476

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

Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
  - Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
  - -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship:
  - Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

Events
- Past:
  - LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
  - SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
  - SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
- Upcoming:
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [6], July 13th.
  - Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
  - A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
- Papers
  - A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
- Videos
  - Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
  - Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
  - Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
  - Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
- Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
- The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
- OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
  1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
  2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
- For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
  - External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
  - External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
- Query examples:
  - Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
  - Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
  - Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
- Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

Development
- Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
- Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
- We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
- We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
- Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
- Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
- Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
- Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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

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

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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 2

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 2, July 2021Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the second issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

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Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review - Initial meetings of the drafting committee have helped to connect and align key topics on enforcement, while highlighting prior research around existing processes and gaps within our movement. (continue reading)
Targets of Harassment Research - To support the drafting committee, the Wikimedia Foundation has conducted a research project focused on experiences of harassment on Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
Functionaries’ Consultation - Since June, Functionaries from across the various wikis have been meeting to discuss what the future will look like in a global context with the UCoC. (continue reading)
Roundtable Discussions - The UCoC facilitation team once again, hosted another roundtable discussion, this time for Korean-speaking community members and participants of other ESEAP projects to discuss the enforcement of the UCoC. (continue reading)
Early Adoption of UCoC by Communities - Since its ratification by the Board in February 2021, situations whereby UCoC is being adopted and applied within the Wikimedia community have grown. (continue reading)
New Timeline for the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee - The CRC was originally expected to conclude by July 1. However, with the UCoC now expected to be in development until December, the timeline for the CRC has also changed. (continue reading)
Wikimania - The UCoC team is planning to hold a moderated discussion featuring representatives across the movement during Wikimania 2021. It also plans to have a presence at the conference’s Community Village. (continue reading)
Diff blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff blog. (continue reading)

Thanks for reading - we welcome feedback about this newsletter. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 17:33, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-29

The winner this Translation of the week is

en:Sèvres Egyptian Service

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The Sèvres Egyptian Service is a name used for two sets of tableware made by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres during the First French Empire. The first was produced between 1804 and 1806 for Napoleon I and was presented by him to Alexander I of Russia in 1808, as a diplomatic gift following the Treaties of Tilsit. It is now held in the State Museum of Ceramics in Russia.

The second set was produced between 1810 and 1812. It was intended as a gift from Napoleon to Empress Joséphine. The service consisted of 72 plates with the wells depicting scenes from Egypt based on sketches made by Vivant Denon. Joséphine refused to accept the service, which she described as "too severe". It was returned to the factory and given as a gift to the Duke of Wellington by Louis XVIII in 1818, following the Bourbon Restoration. The service was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1979 and, except for one plate, was loaned to English Heritage to display at Apsley House, London, the former residence of the first duke.

(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)

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Tech News: 2021-29