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Wikidata weekly summary #451

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
    • Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
    • Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
    • Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention

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.

DYK for Cécile Nobrega

On 25 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cécile Nobrega, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after a 15-year campaign, activist Cécile Nobrega completed fundraising for the first public monument to black women to be on permanent display in England? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cécile Nobrega. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cécile Nobrega), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Lovely to see that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:15, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #452

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
    • Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
    • Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
    • Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
    • Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.
  • Tool of the week
    • TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
    • Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
    • Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
    • Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
    • Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
      • Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
      • Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
      • Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)

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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Precious

women in Africa

Thank you for quality biographies of women in Africa and what they achieved and organised, such as Cécile Nobrega and Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola, for creating hundreds of articles because they were "needed", along with appropriate redirects, for maintaining categories of births and deaths, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2521 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | February 2021, Volume 7, Issue 2, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191


Online events:


Other ways to participate:

Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Rosiestep (talk) 14:58, 27 January 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #453

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
  • Development
    • Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
    • Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
    • Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
    • Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
    • Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
    • Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
    • Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
    • Wikibase Release Strategy
      • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
      • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)


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.

Badge and barnstar for You!

January winner: Women in Africa: WiR Women in Africa contest, 2021




Women in Red Women in Africa contest
25 articles Dsp13 First Place January 2021 Congratulation! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:18, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
@WomenArtistUpdates: Thank you! Dsp13 (talk) 21:15, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your collection of editing tools and biography suggestions. They are very much appreciated. AMM Pittsburgh (talk) 21:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I've just been looking at some of the biographies you've created recently - really fascinating and enjoyable to read. You're creating some really rich content. So thanks to you too :) Dsp13 (talk) 10:51, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.
    • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
  • Development
    • Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
    • Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
    • Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
    • Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
    • Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
    • Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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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Lionel Godfrey Pearson and William Winstanley Pearson

Hello. I think Lionel Godfrey Pearson and William Winstanley Pearson are brothers. Please see Talk:Lionel Pearson and see if you agree. I am asking because I am bsing this on ACAD information and was wondering if that information can be used in this way or not? If no-one else has mentioned this connection, it may be that this needs further corroboration before it can be mentioned. Carcharoth (talk) 14:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

I agree: Lionel's parents are given in a ref at Lionel Pearson, and they are the same as W. W.'s parents which are given in ACAD. Dsp13 (talk) 18:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
I'd never heard of William Winstanley Pearson! Interesting life: there's this paper on him, though it doesn't mention Lionel. Dsp13 (talk) 18:17, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Have found confirmation (by searching on 'Willie' rather than 'William'). It is in a book titled Social Thinking of Rabindranath Tagore (1962) by Sasadhar Sinha. On page 190, snippet view on Google Books gives this: "Mrs. R. E. Richards, Willie Pearsons' sister, in a touching letter wrote, “Willie met Tagore for the first time at 28 Church Row ... brother Lionel G. Pearson. The two ... For Pearson the poet was the embodiment of all that he loved in India itself." So there is a sister as well (who became Richards). Any idea what her first name was? Sort of related, could you possibly help see if the William Crosfield that is the maternal grandfather of Lionel, Sidney, William (Willie) and 'R' (the sister, though the 'R' could be her husband's first name) is the MP at William Crosfield? Carcharoth (talk) 00:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
And from the paper you pointed me to: "Willie’s father, Samuel Pearson, was a Non-Conformist and Congregationalist minister who had served in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester; a hundred years later, proceedings relating to a church with which he had been associated, described him : “…its best loved minister (Samuel Pearson, 1892–1907) was a passive resister, with a Liberal MP for a father-in-law, a pioneer pacifist for a son-in-law, a nearly associate of Gandhi for one son and a public school headmaster for another”. [...] The son-in-law referred to as “a pioneer pacifist” was Leyton Richards." So the husband of R. E. Richards was Leyton Richards and the grandfather was the MP William Crosfield! Carcharoth (talk) 00:19, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
And the wife of Leyton Richards was Edith Ryley Richards. Not sure why the 'R' and the 'E' got swapped. Not sure who the public school headmaster was. Not Lionel (an architect) nor Sidney (a physician). There is a Reverend Sidney Nelson Pearson who was headmaster of Prempeh College in Ghana from 1949-1953 (but the dates look wrong here), see here. Possibly some of those writing about these Pearson are getting them mixed up, but maybe not. Fascinating if they are all the same family. Carcharoth (talk) 00:29, 13 February 2021 (UTC) Final bit for now: Lionel is mentioned here. Carcharoth (talk) 00:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Just finished reading the article by Anil Nauriya on Willie Pearson, and his tragic end. There is another sister named there, called Dorothy. That did lead me to an earlier article by Nauriya, here: William Winstanley Pearson: The Natal Experience. Carcharoth (talk) 10:04, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I think there is a mention of Samuel and Bertha Pearson on a gravestone here. The William Crosfield mentioned there, born 1805 and died 1881, appears to be the father of Bertha Pearson, not the MP (who was born in 1838 and died in 1909). At this point, I think Nauriya might have erred in saying that Samuel Pearson (1842-1907) had a "a Liberal MP for a father-in-law". It looks to me as if William Crosfield is the brother of Bertha (i.e. the son of the elder William Crosfield) and hence the brother-in-law of Samuel Pearson and the uncle of Lionel, Sidney, Willie et al. What do you think? If you can access the ODNB, there is a 2016 article on WWP here. Apparently the MP married Fanny E. Job in 1865. Carcharoth (talk) 20:48, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Clearly some family connection between Wm Crosfield (1805-1881) – who looks like the younger brother of Joseph Crosfield, going into Joseph's soap business rather than their father George's sugar business – and William Crosfield (1838-1909), who was according to his Times obituary in George's sugar business. Not sure if the relationship was father/son though. (I'm tryng to stop myself getting drawn into this rabbit hole... well done to you though for doggedly pursuing it!) Dsp13 (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #455

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (phab:T272887)
    • Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
    • Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (phab:T272242)
    • Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (phab:T272712)
    • Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (phab:T272032)
    • Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
    • Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
    • Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (phab:T204031)
    • Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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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