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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
- Humour: Chickenz
- Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
- Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
- Gallery: Chicken mania
- Traffic report: Fights and frights
- Featured content: Flying high
Wikidata weekly summary #279
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
- Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
- Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
- 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
- Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
- Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)
- Development
- Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
- Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
- Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
- Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
- Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Nomination for deletion of Template:PiemanRiverPowerDevelopment
[edit]Template:PiemanRiverPowerDevelopment has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 18:10, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #280
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
- One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
- Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
- Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
- There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
- New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
- A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
- Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
- Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
- Statement 300.000.000 was created
- 20 million edits were done in September 2017
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
- Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
- Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
- Added a new
mw.wikibase.getAllStatements
Lua function in addition to the existinggetBestStatements
, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124) - Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
- Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component
- 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!
Point Walter Good Article Nomination
[edit]Hi there, We talked a while back when I was young and naive and thought I could edit Wikipedia to my hearts content and get all my studies done, which hasn't turned out to be successful (in that I haven't edited not that I've failed), but I remember you as a prominent figure in the Wikiproject Perth scene. Sorry if this isn't the place to go, or if you're not interested, but I've worked excessively on the page for Point Walter and I believe it could get to Good Article status. However, I've never nominated anything for good article before, and I wanted to check some things off with someone familiar with the subject and the process, which I imagine you are for both. I have a several issues beforehand for the article which I'm not sure need to be addressed before nomination:
- Things that are actually part of nomination
- 1b) "it complies with the manual of style guidelines for... list incorporation.
- I had a bit of a read of this policy, and basically found that it's preferable for information to be listed in prose. However, in the geography section, there is a brief list which I don't know if the information contained would be contained in prose.
- 2b) "all in-line citations are from reliable sources"
- There are two sources that may raise issues, as of writing one of these is listed as source 20. It is a YouTube video, however, it is an official Melville City Council video from the official channel. The other source which I imagine will be more problematic is listed as source 22 as of writing this, and is by what appears to be a music reviewing subsidiary of Junkee, which I'm not 100% on in terms of reliability. However, it should be assessed as a standalone source, as Junkee was founded in 2013 and the article was published in 2007, so it appears Junkee bought the website 6 years later.
- 2d) "it contains no copyright violations nor plagarism"
- The text in the geography section is highly similar to the source's text. I attempted to change up the wording but I found it difficult to keep the wording concise while maintaining all the relevant information.
- 3a) "it addresses the main aspects of the topic"
- It is possible for me to go into a section on conservation, pulling parts from the flora and fauna section about pests and endangered species, and the erosion section, as well as including other information on weed management. However, that could be too in detail, which leads me into 3b
- 3b) "# it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style)."
- I am slightly worried some of the information in the history section being perceived as too detailed, as I found it all interesting while researching, and despite my best efforts to cut information (such as about all the members of the Caporn family and the heritage listing of buildings etcetera), I feel like I may have gone too deep into it.
- Things that aren't actually part of the nomination
- Other issues I have with the article include: this website which is a source used expresses confusion over whether the state government purchased the site in 1907 or 1895. As later in the article it refers to it as 1907, I wrote that in the Wiki article, but should I specify that there is confusion?
- There is a section in the page which says: "Point Walter is notable for the sandbar or spit that extends over 1 km into the river, sections of which are often submerged under high water." A spit is a different geographical entity from a sandbar, and it is called a spit in some sources and a sandbar in others. Since I couldn't get a geological survey of the land I just wrote that, which could be perceived as problematic. How would you address this?
- I may have taken inline sources a bit too far, listing 2 sources 4 times in the text, and 1 source 5 times. I'm not really sure around policies around this.
- Now we move onto the image section: modern photographs in the article are pretty trash (low quality), except for that nice panorama. The page image is on a noticeable tilt, and the last picture is very grainy. I am going down tomorrow to take better ones, but I won't be getting any from the other side of the river because that's a trek. According to the copyright section on the image from 1924, photographs "taken prior to 1 January 1955" are out of their copyright, which makes up most of the photographs on Trove. However, our article on Australian copyright confused me, because it makes it out that it has nothing to do with the date of the photo being taken, instead that it's all about when the author dies. Idk, and I don't really want to upload photos that could be in copyright without affirmation I'm in the right. To get some nice photos in the article, I'm trying to get in a nice collage of the birds which nest on the sandbank, so take that into account when you look at the image quality. I asked on the help desk here how I would go about doing that.
Well, they're all my grievances about the article, and looking at that, there's a lot, so if you can be bothered, can you answer some of my questions before a possible good article nomination? Cheers - JoshMuirWikipedia (talk) 13:57, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
Re: great to see
[edit]Yep, exactly. I've always thought that if we could have the editor base of 2005/06/07 combined with today's technical and social infrastructure, we could do even more amazing things. Graham87 15:10, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
- What's the social infrastructure around here like of late? Back when I was a wiki-kid social media was still in nappies itself. Has Wikipedia adapted much in that area? -- Longhair\talk 16:01, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: September 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #281
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
- Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
- Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
- New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
- Newest database reports: television series by camera setup
- Development
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- A
mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang
Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262) - The
mw.wikibase.sitelink
Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903) - Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
- Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
- Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
- Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- 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!
Revitalisation projects
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Perth Project revitalisation
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Freopedia revitalisation project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Toodyaypedia revitalisation project
Mitch Ames (talk) 12:40, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Mount Tambora
[edit]I have nominated Mount Tambora for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:15, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Western New Guinea
[edit]Hi JarrahTree,
I do not have yet much experience with Wikipedia, but I feel my understanding of and my skills to using the different Wikipedia tools will grow with time. Thank you for your warnings and recommendations.
As to the edit war in the Western New Guinea page: Davidelit reverted a couple of sentences I had added based on a lack of references. Fair enough. Now that I understand how to encode new references, I have undone the suppressions by Davidelit, edited the text and added two reliable references.
As to the POV issue: I am not aware of academic work that contradicts the two references that I have added.
All the best
Philippe
Wikidata weekly summary #282
[edit]Wikidata weekly summary #282
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Association Football Matches
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
- A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
- Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
- Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
- Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
- wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
- wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
- HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
- You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Women
- Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
- Development
- Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
- Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
- Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
- Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
- Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
- The secondary
wb_entity_per_page
table got removed now (phabricator:T140890) - The secondary
wb_terms
table does have aterm_full_entity_id
column now (phabricator:T167114) - Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
- Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
- Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
- 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!
Talkback
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Don't click that button to view your talk!
[edit]You just smashed/murdered thousands of bacteria! Jim1138 (talk) 08:44, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 24
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
- Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
- Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
- Bytes in brief
Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
[edit]Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
- We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
Technology update:
- Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
General project update:
- The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 October 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
- Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
- Humour: Guys named Ralph
- In the media: Facebook and poetry
- Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
- Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
Autoblock
[edit]I am so sorry about the accidental block - I saw the accounts reported to AIV and thought it was some kind of impersonation attempt :/ I've unblocked the accounts. Regards, GABgab 01:27, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Project rater script
[edit]My new project assessment script is available, see User:Evad37/rater. It's not yet complete and may have some bugs, and might be a bit slow to load, but you can try it and see how it goes. - Evad37 [talk] 04:15, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: October 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #286
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
- Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
- Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
- Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
- Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
- Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
- Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
- Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
- Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
- WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
- A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
- research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives
- Development
- Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
- Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
- Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
- Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
- Add
wikibase-snakview-indicators
area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted) - Accessing
mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' )
will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use thewikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded
hook instead (phabricator:T169771) - Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
- Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Just off hand. Can you help me stop going off my 'nana'?
[edit]Jarrah. Could you throw some light on a slight puzzle?
We have Ngaanyatjarra. It's just my guess, but they appear to correspond to the alternative name Tindale supplies for the Nana, i.e. Ngan:adjara (1974 p.249)
Tindale for the Warburton Ranges area has Ngadadjara, which I assumed is what is now written as Ngaatjatjarra. We don't have an article on these.
In contemporary scholarship the Ngaanyatjarra/Ngaatjatjarra are people speaking mutually intelligible dialects (Inge Kral, Talk, Text and Technology: Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community, Multilingual Matters, 2012 isbn 978-1-847-69759-2 )
D'ya reckon it's okay for me to make the otherwise (speciously?) WP:OR inference that Tindale's Ngadadjara are what we now spell out as the Ngaatjatjarra, and create a page with that data under the latter name? I've convinced myself it's okay but with all this ethnonymic confusion, ya never-never no.Nishidani (talk) 16:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Forrest Chase - WikiProjects
[edit]Re: edit summary here - if you did not intend to delete the two WikiProjects, feel free to put them back. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:38, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Companies in and of the country
[edit]I notice you created Category:Trucking companies in Australia, which I put into Category:Transport companies of Australia, then I notice all the others in the latter were ... of Australia. I was going to request a speedy rename of the new cat, but Wikipedia:Category_names#Miscellaneous_.22of_country.22 and Wikipedia:Category_names#Miscellaneous_.22in_country.22 suggests that "in" is correct and "of" is wrong. I don't suppose you're motivated enough to raise a CfD to change all the "of"s ... Mitch Ames (talk) 00:25, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Naeraberg
[edit]As you know, I've been out of the loop for a while. What to do about the duplication of Commons links on the article Naeraberg. You're an administrator over there are you not? Do you usually merge things of this type, since I believe we're talking about the same ship in two different places. You'll note one of the Commons categories has a list of names as a header intact. Over to your Commons expertise :D -- Longhair\talk 12:52, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Your Message
[edit]Sorry, I don't really know what you mean as to why I put the message down the bottom. Could you please explain it clearly as to what you are trying to tell me? AllyGebies (talk) 01:46, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #287
[edit]Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour (log)
- Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
- Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
- Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
- Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
- WikidataCon 2017
- Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
- "Turning a historical book into a data set"
- "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
- New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
- Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
- Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: expeditions
- Development
- Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
- RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
- Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
- Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
- Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
- Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
- 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!
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!
Wikidata weekly summary #288
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
- Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
- Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
- Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
- Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
- Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
- Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
- Query examples:
- People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
- Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
- Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
- Map of libraries in India (source)
- Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
- Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations
- Development
- Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
- Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
- Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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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Wikidata weekly summary #289
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
- Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
- Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
- Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
- Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
- Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
- Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
- The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
- If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
- The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
- The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
- The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
- Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18
- Development
- Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
- There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
- Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
- Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
- More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
- Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: November 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #290
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
- Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
- Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
- My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
- Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
- WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
- QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
- wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
- New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
- Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
- Query examples:
- Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
- Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
- 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
- Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
- Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
- Cast age at date of film publication (source)
- Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)
- Development
- Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
- Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
- Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
[edit]Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
- Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
Outreach and Invitations:
- If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with:
{{subst:NPR invite}}
. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.
New Year New Page Review Drive
- A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
- Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.
General project update:
- ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
- The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:27, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Books and Bytes - Issue 25
[edit]Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017
- OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: Research libraries and Wikimedia
- Bytes in brief
Arabic, Korean and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 December 2017
[edit]- Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
- Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017
- In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
- Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
- Gallery: Wiki loving
- Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
- Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
- Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys
Wikidata weekly summary #291
[edit]- Discussions
- New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
- Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
- Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
- A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
- WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
- Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
- Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the
?project=
attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia - New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
- Query examples:
- Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
- Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
- Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
- Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Narration
- Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron
- Development
- Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
- More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
- Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
- Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
- Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
- Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
It's that time of the year again...
[edit]JT. No fancy template, but just wishing you all the best for the holidays and the new year. It's probably a bit warmer where I am than where you are in WA 😎 Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:37, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
[edit] Merry Christmas JarrahTree!!
Hi JarrahTree, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
–Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:40, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Seasons' Greetings
[edit]...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 16:15, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #292
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
- WikiCite 2018
- Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
- Moths and me
- Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
- The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
- GLOWing the extra mile
- Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
- Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
- You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
- You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
- The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
- Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
- New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
- Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
- Query examples:
- Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
- People born on the same day their mother died (source)
- Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
- Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
- Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
- Map of Christmas traditions (source)
- Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
- Newest database reports: list of Christmas films
- Development
- Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
- Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
- Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
- No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
- More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users
- 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!
New Years new page backlog drive
[edit]Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!
We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!
The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.
Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:
- The total number of reviews completed for the month.
- The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.
NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. — TonyBallioni (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
[edit]JarrahTree, Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America1000 09:18, 2 January 2018 (UTC) |
- – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.
Wikidata weekly summary #293
[edit]- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
- Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
- Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
- Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
- Query examples:
- Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
- Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
- Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
- Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
- Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)
- Development
- Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
- Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
- Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
- Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
- Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
- Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
- Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #294
[edit]- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Jarekt
- New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
- Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
- Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
- Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
- The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
- Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
- There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
- Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
- The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
- Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
- Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
- Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
- You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
- A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
- How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
- New tool: Hub
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: days of 2018
- Development
- Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
- Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
- Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
- Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
- Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
- Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: December 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #295
[edit]- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
- Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
- Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of photography techniques
- Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
- Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
- Inventions by Republicans (source)
- Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
- Countries with no rivers (source)
- Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
- People who died on K2 (source)
- Showcase items: 15 January 2018
- Development
- Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
- Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
- Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
- Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
- Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
- Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
- Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
- add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
- keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
- make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
- mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
- lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)
- 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!
The Signpost: 16 January 2018
[edit]- News and notes: Communication is key
- In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
- Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
- Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
- Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
- Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
- Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
Grubb's Tramway (Zeehan)
[edit]It had a comma, not a full stop.--Grahame (talk) 01:05, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Javanese script
[edit]It's been two years, but I have been bothered by these edits for a while as well. This misses proper context and is irrelevant, as not everyone has installed the Javanese font and not everyone is able to read this. Meursault2004 (talk) 09:24, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #296
[edit]- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
- PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
- The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
- Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nominations for the Steward elections are open
- Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
- repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
- Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
- Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
- External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
- Query examples:
- Map of nuclear tests (source)
- Languages with more than one writing system (source)
- Subclasses of malware (source)
- Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
- Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
- Disney movie narrative locations (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
- Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
- Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
- Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
- Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
- Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
- Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
- Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)
- 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!
WatchlistSorter.js
[edit]Hi,
I noticed your comment over at Evad's talk page, about how you tried to use this, and that your watchlist was too big.
If you don't mind my asking...
How big is your watchlist?
(Mine has over 6,800 pages in it, and it used to have over 8,000.)
I'm just trying to get a feel for what size this script will handle painlessly.
I look forward to your reply (please {{ping}} me when you do), The Transhumanist 08:19, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
@The Transhumanist:, it was close to 50k :) I see your device usefull for lists @ 10k or less JarrahTree 09:07, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Wow, fifty thousand. That's huge. Nice.
- How many days do you have your watchlist set for in your preferences? It would be nice to know if WatchlistSorter.js can handle this many at 1 days, 2 days, ..., 7 days, etc. Mine is set at 30 days which maxes out at 1000 edits shown. The Transhumanist 12:26, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
I would prefer offline on this stuff, I dont like sharing my inner most details that much JarrahTree 23:41, 27 January 2018 (UTC