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Wikidata weekly summary #403

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes phab:T235753, ambiguous statements phab:T240212, deprecated statements phab:T238660, unknown value or no value statements phab:T242747)
    • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
    • Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • Style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
    • Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (phab:T244722)
    • Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
    • Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #404

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  • Development
    • Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
    • Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
    • making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
    • showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
    • More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
    • Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
    • Fixing various issues causing errors in production
    • Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
    • Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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.


The Signpost: 1 March 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous


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Wikidata weekly summary #405

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
    • Bridge: more style adjustments
    • Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
    • Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #406

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th
  • Development
    • Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
    • Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
    • Fixing various production errors
    • Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
    • Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)

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.

This Month in GLAM: February 2020



Headlines
  • Armenia report: Wiki project on Museums with My Armenia
  • Brazil report: Moreira Salles Institute GLAM initiative in Brazil
  • Finland report: The Helsinki then and now exhibition
  • France report: GLAM related blogposts
  • Indonesia report: Proposing collaboration with museums in Bali; First Wikisource training in the region
  • Netherlands report: Students write articles about Media artists, Public Domain Day 2020, Wiki Goes Caribbean, WikiFridays at Ihlia - Wikimedia Nederland in January & February 2020
  • Norway report: Wikipedia editing workshop with the Norwegian Network for Museums
  • Serbia report: Great dedication of librarians
  • Sweden report: Historic photos; Support for international Wikimedia community; Library training tour; Many GLAMs improved on Wikidata
  • UK report: Kimonos and Khalili
  • Ukraine report: Winning photos Wiki Loves Monuments shown in different cities; Libraries Lead an All-Ukrainian Challenge
  • USA report: Black History Month and Open Access Anniversaries
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Summary of pilot projects, and what's next
  • Wikidata report: Leap into Wikidata!
  • WMF GLAM report: New Team Leadership, GLAM-Focused Grants Review, OpenGLAM Declaration Research
  • Calendar: March's GLAM events
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Too many images

Gooday Mike. As you are admin on en and Commons could you please take a look at Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society?

I have Ronhjones' TP on my Watchlist, and started to basically respond at User talk:Ronhjones#Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Wikipedia Photos Copyright as a courtesy acknowledgement due to Ron's absence since Apr 2019. Then I found the article is swamped with 30+ images, mostly contrived photo-calls of visiting dignitaries. Whereas this may be acceptable for hosting at Commons, I didn't know how to proceed with deleting from the article as unencyclopedic and of little value to the reader, or how to convey this adequately to the enquirer. It's been top-templated and I didn't just want to add, ferinstance, {{too many photos}}. Thx.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 15:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Rocknrollmancer: Wow, that is a lot of images, particularly at the bottom of the page. I think they're all in scope for Commons, though, and copyright seems to be OK - but would be better with OTRS or at least the name of the photographer(s) for credit. I'll quickly go through them to add them to the correct commons category, but I think someone (you?) needs to go through the article and remove at least half of the less notable ones... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:26, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
The photos are all now in commons:Category:Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:37, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
OK, thanks, appreciate that.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 23:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Many of the images could be cropped down a bunch, which would help as well. - NiD.29 (talk) 23:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
@Rocknrollmancer and NiD.29: Let me know when I can help further. If you crop the images, it would probably be best if you kept the originals and had the cropped versions at different filenames, of course. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:52, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm just making a start on the deadlinks x5 (see what the bot finds). This all seems entirely promotional, written by involved individuals - I haven't even scanned the history as I would normally, or the view stats. In the draft I scrubbed, I mentioned that the images would be better at a social media portal rather than an encyclopedia. Cheers.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #407

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
    • Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
    • Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
    • Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
    • Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
    • Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
    • showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
    • research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)

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.

15 years on Wikipedia!

Hey, Mike Peel. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Mike Peel/Archive 52,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 13:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: Thanks! Unfortunately, the society system doesn't seem to be compatible with having a single user page on meta, it might be better as a list rather than a category. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:17, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:00, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Basketball team articles

Hi @Mike Peel: I requested the move due to disambiguation caused under the name Croatia men's national basketball team, when posting the fixtures schedule for the national team. The name Croatia national basketball team being the original base name eliminates this issue of disambiguation, when completing this task. Similar pages like the Croatia national football team page doesn't cause this issue of disambiguation with the fixtures schedule, due to the page being under the original base name and not differing under another name like for example Croatia men's national football team. Hopefully this gives a bit more clarity on it. 12:02, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #408

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
  • Development

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.

Commons and category now implementing your idea

I've updated {{Commons and category}} and {{Commons and category-inline}} to implement your idea of only showing one link if only one of the gallery and category is defined (either in the arguments or in wikidata). I think this will serve our readers with fewer links that lead to the Commons search engine, when there is a perfectly good link available. — hike395 (talk) 14:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #409

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
  • Development
    • Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
    • Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
    • Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
    • Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
    • Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
    • More research on suggesting references

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.

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Wikidata weekly summary #410

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
  • Development
    • Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
    • Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
    • Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
    • Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
    • Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)

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.

Info boxes

Hi Mike,

We met briefly at the last WikidataCon in Berlin; I always wanted to contacted you on your presentation. You spoke about Info boxes and I realised it would not be that simple. I am organising a Wikibase outside Wikidata, the FactGrid, the product of a joint venture with Wikimedia Berlin. Info Boxes had been on the list for all our document pages. This is a typical document page: [D-Q6641. The titles are not very helpful; they are dsesignd to match the respective Q-number, in this case our Item:Q6641.

I wonder whether you could help us to build a single info box for such a page. It could be full width and it would give the basic information of the dataset.

I guess I would know all the rest if you managed to bring a single piece of information from the Item onto the document page, like the author or the title. If you feel tempted to try your luck I'd immediately give you an account to play with. --Olaf Simons (talk) 21:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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