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Wikidata weekly summary #422

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikibase Live sessions is coming back with the first call about Data Modeling in the context of Libraries happening on Thursday, July 2nd at 1600 UTC.
  • Development
    • It is now possible to search for EntitySchema pages using a shortcut “E:”, similar to “P:” for Properties and “L:” for Lexemes. For example: E:E10 or E:kakapo. T245529
    • Continued working on the first version of Federation, which will allow other Wikibase installations to use Wikidata's Properties - getting closer to a first testable version
    • More work on consistency of user interface components
    • Finalizing the click-dummy for the first version of the Query Builder so we can start testing it with some editors soon and get feedback.
    • Continuing to investigate how to improve our APIs and other ways to improve access to the data in Wikidata for programmers
    • Discussed the future of the Wikidata Query Service and ideas for next steps we can take to make it scale better. Guillaume will join the next office hour to talk about it.
    • More work on clearer separation of Wikibase repository and Wikibase client code in order to improve maintainability

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 – July 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
  • The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

I know was a bit pissed off yesterday

But please don't change that many pages that fast, because there are reasons for using that extra parameter, and it was clear in my opinion that you could never have known that at 6 pages per minute. I also spend 20 minutes checking the villages A-G in Suriname and French Guiana which was frustrating as well. KittenKlub (talk) 18:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@KittenKlub: I was checking them as I went, the speed was due to semi-automation. I'll go slower in the future. Apologies for where I got them wrong, I'm checking the reverts when I see them, and I'm happy to double-check any cases you want - and to help create new categories on Commons as well. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
BTW, with [1], commons:Category:Albina, Suriname has commons:Category:Bigiston as a subcategory, do both really need to be linked to in the article? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
It is better explained at Marowijne District. That whole area is tribal (and therefore autonomous ) But the capital was founded by a European, and is therefore NOT tribal and part of the regular government. The problem is that the Albina resort is very big and happens to contain a cluster of villages (arranged per tribe / maternal lineage) who are tribal. The real problem is that an article for Bigiston is just a paragraph, because that's all you'll find about what 200 people living in a village without internet. Therefore Bigiston is mentioned at the District as a village, but has been added to the resort to prevent super stubs which will remain stub for decades. KittenKlub (talk) 19:06, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
@KittenKlub: Are you sure there isn't enough for a separate article? There seems to be a reasonably lengthy description of the village in "Winti practices in Bigiston" (currently a reference in the article). It may be short, but I don't think it would be a super-stub. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Actually you are right. There's much more in the article, but I am sometimes lazy as well. Also my experience with submitting unfamiliar articles isn't that great. Luckily that reference is English, but I have had AfDs because somebody refused to accept clearly notable pages (because there is no English info... and tons of non-English info) and that happened to others as well, so I am someitmes reluctant to submit something if it is too small. KittenKlub (talk) 19:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Bigiston Indeed there was more than enough material for an article after all. KittenKlub (talk) 08:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Very nice - well done! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Misplaced commons category

You edited several of the articles I started about forts in Portugal for the reason of "Misplaced Commons Category". If they were misplaced why not correctly place them instead of deleting the link? Thanks. Roundtheworld (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

@Roundtheworld: 'Misplaced' as in the link doesn't match the article, not misplaced in the article. I try to correct the links whenever I can, but I haven't found matching commons categories for the ones I've been removing them from - can you help find/create them? Thanks. 18:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
@Mike Peel: I don't understand your reasoning. Most of the articles you edited are about forts that, collectively, make up what are known as the Lines of Torres Vedras. The link was to the Commons Category for the Lines of Torres Vedras. So I think the link perfectly well matches the articles. Roundtheworld (talk) 10:15, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
@Roundtheworld: They should have individual categories, like commons:Category:Forte de São Vicente. I can help set those up if you want, looking in commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras there's a number of photos but the forts are all mixed together there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
@Roundtheworld: OK, I've worked through Category:Lines of Torres Vedras and commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras to create individual Commons categories and to link to them from the articles, how do they look? Did I miss any articles or photos? Also, I see that most of the photos were by yourself, thank you for uploading them to Commons! Did you take any additional photos of each fort that you could also upload, please, to get a better feeling for the places? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
@Mike Peel:. Many thanks. I've created a couple more categories and moved the files from commons:Category:Lines of Torres Vedras. I'll see what I can find on my phone for additional photos although it might be difficult to sort out one fort from another!Roundtheworld (talk) 07:27, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #423

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.
  • Development
    • More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
    • Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
    • Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
    • Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
    • Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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.

John Hardy (MP)

Hi. I see that you removed the Commons Category link from the above article, but please would you kindly let me know why? Is it because the images in that category are not of John Hardy MP? It would help me to know this, as I would then need to check that the sculpture images in that category are correctly categorised. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Update. Further to the above, I think I see what the problem was: a family category which had been misunderstood to be representative of one member of that family. I have reorganised that category on Commons into an umbrella category with subcategories for the individuals. I have requested user:Jarekt to sort out the associated Wikidata template as I do not have the skills to do that. Please kindly check that you are happy with this, and let me know if there is any remaining problem. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 09:54, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
@Storye book: Yes, that was it, thanks for reorganising the category. I've tweaked the commonscat templates here, and added the sitelinks, the infobox will be automatically added in a day or so. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:44, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. Storye book (talk) 12:37, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Cochrane Update

Hi Mike, I hope that you are keeping well. I noticed that there were no updates posted for June or July 2020 on the update bot. Is the bot working alright? Our volunteers have been really getting through the updates. If I can help with anything to check on the bot please let me know! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Cochrane_update Thanks. Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 18:03, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@JenOttawa: It's returning a warning 'The regex search timed out', not sure if that's the cause of this. I'll look into it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for offering to looking into it. The archive appears to have worked at least! JenOttawa (talk) 18:24, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
@JenOttawa: It looks like pubmed have changed their website (including the URLs), so the old way of finding the ID of the new article no longer works. I'm reworking the code now, not sure how long it will take. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:51, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
@JenOttawa: I think the new code is working, can you double-check the updates it is identifying please? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:58, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Mike, thank you for fixing this. I checked and the updates look to be working well and the bot is populating the page with new Updates Needed. I really appreciate you taking the time to fix the code for this project. Take good care! JenOttawa (talk) 15:30, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy...

Wishing Mike Peel a very Peel happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:03, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very Peel happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 19:10, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2020



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Date precision

There is a potential for an error when comparing because the getDatePrecision function can return an empty string. I've created Template:Date precision to encapsulate the #invoke and trap the empty string, replacing it with 0 by default, although that can be changed by supplying the template with a second unnamed parameter:

  • Darach Ó Séaghdha (Q52063097): {{Date precision|P569|qid=Q52063097}} → 7
  • Douglas Adams (Q42) {{Date precision|P569|qid=Q42}} → 11
  • No qid: {{Date precision|P569|qid={{{qid|}}} }} → 0
  • No qid, default set to 99: {{Date precision|P569|qid={{{qid|}}}|99}} → 0

Testing for precision can be done like this, and the default output can be changed by assigning the default a large number:

  • Darach Ó Séaghdha (Q52063097): {{#ifexpr:{{Date precision|P569|qid=Q52063097}} > 8 |This if it's year or smaller|This if it's more than a year}} → This if it's more than a year
  • Douglas Adams (Q42): {{#ifexpr:{{Date precision|P569|qid=Q42}} > 8 |This if it's year or smaller|This if it's more than a year}} → This if it's year or smaller
  • No qid: {{#ifexpr:{{Date precision|P569|qid={{{qid|}}} }} > 8 |This if it's year or smaller|This if it's more than a year}} → This if it's more than a year
  • No qid, default set to 99: {{#ifexpr:{{Date precision|P569|qid={{{qid|}}}|99}} > 8 |This if it's year or smaller|This if it's more than a year}} → This if it's more than a year

Compare with:

  • {{#ifexpr:{{#invoke:WikidataIB|getDatePrecision|P569|qid={{{qid|}}}}} > 8|This if it's year or smaller|This if it's more than a year}} → This if it's more than a year

See if it's any use to you. I know about "yet another template to export", but it might still be the cleanest way of avoiding errors on some pages. --RexxS (talk) 19:33, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

@RexxS: Thanks! Any chance that could be built into WikidataIB, like checkBlacklist, so the value to check can be passed to the function and a True/False (or equivalent) returned for use in an #if function? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
But do you want to check bigger, equal or less than <the value to check>? --RexxS (talk) 19:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
I expect that most uses would be 'more precise than'. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Hmmz - I dunno. I think it's more flexible to let the template do the test. How about if I modify getDatePrecision to take a default value that is returned when the Wikidata is invalid? Then the function could be set to 0 or 99 or whatever in those cases? Or should I simply assume it always wants a numeric value, never nil? --RexxS (talk) 19:56, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
That would work, just return 0 precision if there's no value set. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:01, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Okay, that's done. getDatePrecision will return 0 instead of nil if the data is invalid. I've set it so that you can supply a second unnamed parameter to change that 0 to any other number for invalid data, but that probably won't be used much, if ever. --RexxS (talk) 20:15, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #424

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
    • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
    • Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.
  • Tool of the week
    • DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
    • More work on the consistent design system
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
    • Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
    • Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
    • Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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 #425

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
    • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
    • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
    • Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
    • Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
    • Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.
  • Development
    • More work on the consistent design system
    • More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
    • Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
    • Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
    • Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
    • Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
    • Federated Properties:
      • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
      • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
    • Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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 #426

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • We would love suggestions for tools to include in this section of the weekly summary. Please add your suggestions directly under Status updates/Next#Backlog after checking that the tool isn't already listed.
  • Development
    • Changed the size of image previews to 1024 in the gallery view of the query service to avoid some images not loading sometimes (phabricator:T258241)
    • Added an actual space between the entity title and the name of the fallback language (if any), so that the fallback language isn't selected anymore when double-clicking the entity title for copying (phabricator:T256857)
    • Fixed the directionality of text pieces in placeholders that mix LTR and RTL (phabricator:T253812)
    • Continued work on first pieces of design system to make coding new features easier in the future
    • Continued untangling the code of Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repo to make it easier to develop on them
    • Finished first piece of research on how to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers - more work to be done
    • Preparing to start coding on the Query Builder to make it easier to create queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Finished running the scraper that gets potential new references for unreferenced statements and preparing it for publishing

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 – August 2020

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

Administrator changes

added Red Phoenix
readded Euryalus • SQL
removed Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

readded GB fan
removed Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

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Wikidata weekly summary #427

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wiki13
  • Tool of the week
    • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties.
  • Development
    • The last week was our quarterly prototyping week. We worked on the following projects. None of them are ready for prime-time yet but we'll continue with them.
      • Slices: We've had a lot of requests for accessing dumps of a smaller part of Wikidata's data since rarely anyone needs the complete data in Wikidata. The tricky part is figuring out which part is needed and if any of that can be generalized. We looked into for example how to make dump generation faster so we could potentially produce more smaller dumps that only cover a part of Wikidata's data, either thematically (e.g. humans) or by type of data (e.g. only statements and English labels and aliases but not sitelinks or descriptions).
      • REST API: As part of our effort to make it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers we looked into a REST API. We tried to see if we could cover the existing action API modules in a REST API. We could. We'll take this as input for our ongoing API work now.
      • Improving quality ratings through ORES: ORES can judge the quality of an Item automatically. It is currently not very good at it however. We tried a few things to make it more accurate and found some easy wins we'll probably make happen in the next weeks.
      • Query manipulator: One of the ways we could potentially improve the load situation of the Wikidata Query Service is by automatically analyzing and then redirecting a bunch of queries to other systems that are more suitable for that particular type of query. The nice thing about that would be that the person/program sending the query wouldn't have to care about it but it'd be done automagically for them. We tried to build such a system and the results look very promising but more work/experimenting is needed, especially together with the WMF Search team.

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

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