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Wikidata weekly summary #411

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
  • Development
    • Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
    • Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
    • Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
    • More work on Automated finding references
    • More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
    • Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)

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.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, feel free to add your articles to this! † Encyclopædius 21:31, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #412

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.
  • Development
    • Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
      • try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
      • allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
      • investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
      • com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
      • identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
      • create design system components to continue improving consistency

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.

Thank you for your participation in the WikiGap Challenge!

Hi!

Now, we have finalized the results from the WikiGap Challenge. You can find the general and top results here. I want to thank you for your contribution, which together with the other participants have created a tremendous and long lasting impact for the visibility of women on Wikipedia.

We want to give you a barnstar for your participation, to praise your efforts for a better visibility of women on Wikipedia!

We will analyze the challenge and the way it works closely, to see how we can improve it for next year. It would be very valuable for us if you wanted to share your views on the challenge, especially when it comes to: the point system, the focus, and the adding of the list from UN Human Rights. You can send your answers to eric.luth@wikimedia.se!

I hope you found the challenge exciting, and that you want to participate next year as well!

Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk) 11:55, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Keep up the excellent work!! † Encyclopædius 10:05, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
@Encyclopædius: I've only just clocked you're Dr B! Thanks very much indeed, Dsp13 (talk) 14:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #413

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
  • Development
    • More work on error screens for the Bridge
    • Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
    • Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
    • Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
    • Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
    • Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
    • Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)

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.

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week

Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including one week dedicated to the top half of Africa, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius 11:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of WikiGap Challenge/Results

A tag has been placed on WikiGap Challenge/Results requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Only see two incoming links, though justification was to prevent having to fix incoming links, unless it is linked to from other projects. This does not seem like it is useful long-term and if such a link is warranted, it should likely be in WP space. Arguably an A3 (no content except for an external link)

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Ost (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

May 2020 at Women in Red

May 2020, Volume 6, Issue 5, Numbers 150, 151, 163, 164, 165, 166


May offerings at Women in Red.

Online events:


Join the conversation: Women in Red talkpage

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Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red / Opt-out of notifications

--Rosiestep (talk) 20:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Mary Wollstonecraft Award

Mary Wollstonecraft Award
On behalf of WP:WPWW, thank you for creating the recent new article on Kay Sifuniso, the first black female Zambian journalist. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: that was unexpected and very wonderful! Thank you very much. Dsp13 (talk) 16:23, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

SurVision Books and Magazine

Dear Dsp13,

Can I ask you to take a look at this: [1], please? I noted that you once updated the article about one of Irish poetry presses, Gallery Press. My article about another Irish poetry press and magazine, SurVision Books and Magazine, is currently in danger. I've tried to improve it, and I know that it can be further improved. We only have a few poetry press in Ireland, and I believe that keeping articles about them is important, so I would appreciate it if you could take a look at it and maybe vote. Cheers.--Bonmot (talk) 08:54, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #414

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
    • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Tool of the week
    • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
    • 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
    • Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th
  • Development
    • Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
    • More work on the test system for federated properties
    • More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
    • Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
    • Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
    • Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
    • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
    • Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
    • Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)

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.

Proposed deletion of Warren Dawson

Hello, Dsp13

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Naypta and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I've proposed an article that you started, Warren Dawson, for deletion because it meets one of the relevant criteria and I believe that the article obviously and uncontroversially does not belong in an encyclopedia. The particular issue can be found in the notice that is now visible at the top of the article.

If you wish to prevent the deletion:

  1. Edit the page
  2. Remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
  3. Click the Publish changes button.

If you object to the article's deletion, please remember to explain why you think the article should be kept on the article's talk page and improve the page to address the issues raised in the deletion notice. Otherwise, it may be deleted later by other means.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Naypta}}. And remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. Thanks!

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:37, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Wow, this is a horribly written notice. Sorry, I'm just getting used to Page Curation, and looks like I'm not a huge fan of it at the moment - the Twinkle notices are far better IMO. Although I'm sure it's amusing to be welcomed to the wiki after nearly 14 years here! Either way, I've PROD'd the article as it relies only on one source, and I'm unconvinced it fits WP:MUSICBIO as a separate article. Cheers, Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Naypta: Always nice to receive a welcome, and nice to meet you too :-) Actually all I'd added at Warren Dawson was a redirect, which preceded the recent content and which another editor's now restored. I wonder though if the page should be a disambiguation page, to give people the chance to choose between the Kings of Rhythm bassist and the Egyptologist. Dsp13 (talk) 13:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Likewise! And so I see - that might be a good idea, yeah. I'll go disambig it now! Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 14:05, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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