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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
• Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, Kosack and Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2018

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This Month in Education

Volume 4 | Issue 8 | August 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

From the Community	The reconnection of Wikimedia Projects in Brazil Christ (DU) students enrolls for 3rd Wikipedia certificate course Educational wiki-master-classes at International "Selet" forum 54 students help enrich the digital Arabic content
From the Education Team	Mapping education in the Wikimedia Movement

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2018)

Jahangir (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627) was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled the Mughal Empire from 1605 until his death in 1627. Pictured is a 17th century painting of Jahangir hunting with a falcon. Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Jahangir Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Public good • Guacamole Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2018-36

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

Recent changes

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [1][2]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [3][4]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [5]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [6]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [7]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [8]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [10]

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #328

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

• Events
  • 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
  • 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
  • September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
  • Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
  • Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
  • Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
  • Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
  • A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
  • A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
  • SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
    • External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
    • External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
  • Query examples:
    • License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
    • Gallery of Gods and other deities
    • Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna (source)
    • Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
  • Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata

• Development
  • Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
  • Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
  • Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
  • Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
  • Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2018

This Month in GLAM – Volume VIII, Issue VIII, August 2018 Headlines Armenia report: Museums workers experiencing Wikidata power Australia report: WikiTourAU and Researchers Week Brazil report: Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px France report: Ceramics and monuments Germany report: Wikipedia meets antiquity in Xanten Ireland report: Stories and Connections: Editing workshop in National Gallery of Ireland Kosovo report: First WoALUG contribution to this newsletter Macedonia report: WikiCity tour in Kočani and Vinica Malaysia report: World Library and Information Congress 2018 Portugal report: GLAMifying the National Library Republic of Korea report: Launch of GLAM Newsletter on Repupublic of Korea Serbia report: Wikimedians in residence at two Serbian museums Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; National Library of Sweden; Crowdsourcing Structured Data on Commons for GLAMs UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes; Exploring Collections with Wikidata USA report: Wiknics and Wikidata Wikidata report: Upcoming conferences, and more WMF GLAM report: Wikimania, Wikimedians in Residence, Structured Data on Commons, and upcoming conferences Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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7th Annual Los Angeles Wiknic

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2018)

The People's Republic of Angola covers the period of Angolan history as a self-declared socialist state established in 1975 to the time it was dismantled in 1992. Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: People's Republic of Angola Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Jahangir • Public good Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #329

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

• Events
  • Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
  • The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
  • Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
  • Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
  • Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
  • Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
  • Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
  • Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
    • External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
    • External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Nobel Prize winners in WIkidata that miss a LIBRIS id (source)
    • Recent video game items with associated sitelinks and identifiers (source)
    • Video game titles available on more than ten platforms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions

• Development
  • Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
  • Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
  • Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
  • Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
  • Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
  • Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
  • Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
  • Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:52, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Indy Beetle and Nick-D on the Katangese Gendarmes and India during World War II Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at two important treaties of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 22:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

Recent changes

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [11]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [12]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [13]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [14]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [15]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [16]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2018)

Musicians at a pub session, an event that involves playing music and/or singing in the relaxed social setting of a local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation. Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pub session Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: People's Republic of Angola • Jahangir Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:17, 17 September 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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Tech News: 2018-38

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

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [17]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [18]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [19]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Masssly/Archive, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #331

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ayack
  • New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
  • Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
  • Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
  • TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
    • External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
    • External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Maps and libraries in Boston and Cambridge (source)
    • Timeline of mobile phones (source)
    • Average height of figure skaters by gender and discipline (source)
  • New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages

• Development
  • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
  • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

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

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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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