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Tech News: 2022-34

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Recent changes

  • Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [1][2]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [3]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-35

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The Imphal Peace Museum (IPM) (Meitei: Imphal Aying-Achik Pukei Lankei Shanglen, Japanese: インパール平和資料館, romanized: Inpāru heiwa shiryōkan) is a WWII museum at the foothills of the Red Hills (Maibam Lokpa Ching) in Manipur. It is a living memory of the Battle of Imphal and other WWII battles (March-July 1944) fought in Manipur. It is supported by the Nippon Foundation (TNF), a non profit grant making organization, collaborating with the Manipur Tourism Forum and the Government of Manipur. (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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Wikidata weekly summary #535

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
    • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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Tech News: 2022-35

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  • In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [5]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Tribhuvanadevi moved to draftspace

This is copied from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Laska666&oldid=1107789007 - because the user whose talkpage it is is known for blanking it and I'm preserving it here to easily access it for the record.

An article you recently created, Tribhuvanadevi, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Mccapra (talk) 22:29, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

@Mccapra:, are you sure that these articles aren't ready for mainspace? They look like typical stubs and their notability can honestly quite easily be established by the fact that they're Cham royalty about which plenty is written in both Vietnamese and French, the issue is that the creator tends to prioritise English-language sources (see also the AfD for the "Kingdom of Vietnam" article where they dismissed multiple reliable sources for being written in Vietnamese). I'm not sure if moving them to draftspace really benefits anyone as these articles are now "invisible" to anyone and it's highly unlikely that the people working in draftspace will actually improve them there. A simple Ecosia search will find a number of sources that mention her mostly in Vietnamese, though I assume that most sources are offline.
My main argument above being that stubs aren't supposed to be assumed to not be notable unless notability cannot be established. While I personally don't write stubs I commonly find stubs that have a lot of information about them that can be expanded, simply deleting stubs because of the fact that they're stubs seems counterproductive to me. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:25, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
@Donald Trung: hi the issue is primarily that they have a single source, unfortunately offline, so don’t meet our requirements. In addition the article creator has been blocked for creating hoax articles. If the draftified articles can show notability through additional referencing I’m happy to move them back to mainspace, but for the time being the suspicion is that they’re hoaxes. Mccapra (talk) 21:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
@Mccapra:, other than "Royal Vietnamese army" I don't think that user "Laska666" has ever created an actual hoax, most of their edits seem to revolve around POV-pushing, though this seems largely limited to "Kinh history" (the history of Vietnam outside of ethnic minority history). If you want to explore what kind of hoaxes they push I'd say seeing Đại Việt as a continuous state until 1802 (not 1804 for whatever reason) and including all names prior to the Nguyễn into this category and seeing it afterwards as the "Kingdom of Vietnam", they also spread the idea that all institutions of the Nguyễn were abolished in 1885... Alright, I can see now why they're accused of being a Hoaxer, but I haven't seen them do the same with the history of Champa, in fact they've been doing largely well in the last half year or so.
That aside, people aren't really able to expand the article and add additional sources of the article is in draftspace. At least if an article is nominated for deletion people will try to improve it and look for additional sources, when an article is draftified it gets ignored and then quietly deleted by a bot. So I'd say that nominating these articles for deletion might even be a better alternative because there will be at least some eyeballs on them by people willing to investigate and verify these articles. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:41, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
@Donald Trung: Well there’s nothing stopping you nominating it for deletion if you think that’s a better course of actions. Mccapra (talk) 22:14, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Mccapra, I'm not allowed to. First of all it's in draftspace which I'm not allowed to edit, second of all it wouldn't go through AfD (which I am allowed to edit) but MfD. So I can't do anything with it, there also isn't a "nominate for deletion" button here like there is at the Wikimedia Commons. -- — Donald Trung (talk) 22:18, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-36

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The Church of Saint John (Armenian: Սուրբ Յովհաննէս Եկեղեցի) is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. It was rebuilt in 1840 by Samson Makintsev (Sam Khan; member of Bogatyr Battalion) in brick on the older church foundation.

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Wikidata weekly summary #536

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
      • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
      • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
      • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
    • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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Tech News: 2022-36

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

Changes later this week

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

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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2022

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