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Wikidata weekly summary #504

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • Tool of the week
    • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL
  • Development
    • Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
    • Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
    • Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
    • Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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.


Tech News: 2022-04

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
  • The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
  • You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [1]

Events

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Kludgy ping, WMF BoT consultation

I replied to your comments at Meta:Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Board_of_Trustees_elections/Discuss_Key_Questions; you asked to be pinged and I've just realized I forgot. Apologies. HLHJ (talk) 16:14, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

@HLHJ: Thanks for letting me know. Those are great replies! I have a follow-up question I'll ask there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:51, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

I need help to correct a repeated consensus violation in the article Antoni Gaudí

Hola colega:

Le escribo en idioma español porque en su página de usuario dice que usted domina este idioma, así que imagino que entenderá lo que escribo. Soy un usuario que edita principalmente artículos de Wikipedia en inglés y Wikipedia en español, con la intención de mejorarlos. Pero ahora tengo un problema: hace algún tiempo noté que el artículo de Wikipedia en inglés del arquitecto español llamado "Antoni Gaudí" se refiere a él en el encabezamiento del artículo (lead) como "Catalan architect".

Actualmente, existe un gran debate y conflicto acerca de cómo describir la nacionalidad de los españoles nacidos en Cataluña, principalmente por motivos ideológicos. Debido a esto, y para evitar las guerras de ediciones, actualmente existe una solución de consenso. MOS establece que el país de origen debe usarse en la introducción. El "Spanish from Catalonia" o "Catalan from Spain" se planteó en un RfC sobre la materia como solución intermedia. Pero a pesar de que esto es un consenso establecido, en el artículo de Antoni Gaudí este consenso no es respetado y está siendo violado. Por eso hace algún tiempo edité el artículo y puse "Spanish architect from Catalonia", pero mi edición fué revertida y el usuario que la revirtió alegó en su explicación que mi edición era un vandalismo: Pero eso es falso... ¡Yo sólo estaba haciendo cumplir el consenso! Posteriormente, otro usuario añadió la otra fórmula de consenso: "Catalan architect from Spain", pero esa edición también fue revertida por el mismo usuario que revirtió la mía.

Por eso solicito, por favor, la ayuda de usted. Teniendo en cuenta que usted es administrador, tengo fé en que me pueda ayudar a corregir ese problema para que el consenso pueda ser aplicado en ese artículo. Porque en mi humilde opinión eso representa una parcialización del contenido de Wikipedia por motivos ideológicos. Además de que también es una violación de consenso.

Si usted pudiera responderme, se lo agradeceré mucho. De antemano, muchas gracias. Aziyade Gil (talk) 04:38, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

@Aziyade Gil: Hola, I can read Spanish reasonably OK, but I can't write it very well, hence this reply in English, sorry! It looks like this has been something that's been discussed on the talk page at Talk:Antoni_Gaudí as well as in the archives (e.g., Talk:Antoni_Gaudí/Archive_2). If you want this change, then you need to discuss it on the talk page with the other editors, and get a consensus there. Gracias. Mike Peel (talk) 12:04, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Muchas gracias por sus explicaciones.

Translation: Thank you very much for your instructions. Aziyade Gil (talk) 20:29, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Cite Q

Hi Mike (and cc Andy)! Replying to your comment here, I considered using Cite Q after seeing Andy's presentation at Wikimania (or another conference) when I was working on my FA, Pomona College. I forget precisely which issues came up, but basically, I would've needed it to be able to replicate CS1 results precisely to pass FAC, and it wasn't able to do that when I checked for the sources in the bibliography section. It just didn't have a lot of the more niche CS1 parameters or didn't display them the same way.

I did end up using a lot of references drawn from Pomona's Wikidata item (a showcase item, not that I suspect anyone's actually verified it haha) via {{Wikidata}}, though, so I can certainly speak to the challenges there. (I'm not sure if any other FA uses Wikidata as extensively, so my perspective is perhaps unique.)

One which didn't come up but could've is the |work= vs. |publisher= distinction, which is a major thing in CS1 but just done using publisher (P123) on Wikidata. This is a messy, huge ticking time bomb for those of you working on transferring Wikipedia references to Wikidata. Someday in the future, we hope there will be a big discussion about whether to go forward with the transfer, and at that point, you want to be able to say that none of the parameters will change and nothing will change for readers. You can't do that unless there's a one-to-one correlation between Wikidata properties and CS1 parameters, and (title of broader work (P6333) aside) that's not yet the case. The sooner that gets resolved, the less path dependency issues there will be down the road.

Another big issue is duplicate references. There were several instances where I was drawing one citation from Wikidata and placing another in the article directly, and with current technical structures that leads to a duplicate reference. This is phab:T274432, and there's a barnstar waiting for anyone who fixes it.

I hope that helps illuminate some of the issues currently hindering Wikidata reference usage at the FA level. Btw, while I'm here, if you'd like to pick up the effort to add Wikidata functionality to the university infobox anytime, just let me know. I recently imported a bunch of data from IPEDS to Wikidata, so if we got that working it'd make a lot of articles more complete. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 20:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

There is a possibly related thread about |publisher= at Template talk:Cite Q. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:59, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
@Sdkb: Thanks, interesting to know. Work vs. publisher is a good point, which needs generally resolving on Wikidata, will have to look into that. Duplicate references you can sort of already handle - just make sure the name is the same, when I was experimenting with auto-refs in the infobox at South Pole Telescope I think this could be handled OK. Better if you just use the auto references though. ;-) And apologies for infobox university - that's still on my to-do list, and I'll get back to you about it at some point. However, note that meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Check if a page exists without populating WhatLinksHere (which you opposed) directly came out of the infobox work here - particularly with occupations, but it also applies more generally. It's when you want to see if we have a redirect or an article for a given term (e.g., astronomer) where there isn't a sitelink in the Wikidata item, which was a big issue that was holding up automated infobox deployment. So by opposing that you're kinda shooting yourself in the foot. ;-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 January 2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #505

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS scaling update for Jan 2022 available here. We will be trying to do monthly updates starting this month.
  • Development
    • Continuing work on adding the mul language code for labels, descriptions and aliases. (phab:T297393)
    • Enabled statement usage tracking for Cebuano, Armenian and Warai Warai to ensure fine-grained notifications about edits on Wikidata on those Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
    • Continuing work on fixing a bug where Wikidata changes do not get sent to Wikipedia and co for the first sitelink adding leading to missing information in the page_props table (phab:T233520)
    • Continuing work on making sure the Wikidata search box works with the new Vector skin improvements (phab:T296202)
    • Mismatch Finder: Debugging some issues with the first files we got with mismatches that we can load into the Mismatch Finder


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.

Tech News: 2022-05

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

  • If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [2]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
    • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

COI Edit Requests - Brian Keating Article

Hi User:Mike Peel: I am in a COI relationship with Brian Keating and he is inquiring about some updates/improvements to the page about him. I have put some suggested content on the talk page of that article. I was wondering, since you've done some work on the BICEP and Keck Array page if you might find it a good use of your time to review these edits to the Dr. Keating article. I respect and adhere to Wikipedia's rules and criteria, and am proceeding accordingly. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have on these edits/updates. One request is reverting the deletion of the section on his book 'Losing the Nobel Prize'. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best LeepKendall (talk) 00:17, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

@LeepKendall: I can potentially have a look - although I'd do a general rework of the article at the same time. However, I'm concerned about your COI relationship - please could you explain more? Is Brian paying you to get his article improved? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
It is true User:Mike Peel as I have declared, I am in a COI relationship with Brian. He contacted me looking for help to update the article about him after a colleague wrote to me about the POLARBEAR article and how Simons Array needed it's own page. That never went anywhere. If he is now in contact with you as a volunteer and you are interested in helping with improvements, this is the best case scenario for Brian. And I am happy to bow out of the process. Best LeepKendall (talk) 16:56, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
@LeepKendall: Thanks for the follow-up. I appreciate your transparency here. I would recommend that in future, you explicitly say that you are a paid editor. Saying 'a COI relationship' could mean many things, and it's better to be clear about it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #506

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andy Mabbett on the "Cite Q" template that uses data from Wikidata in Wikipedia citations and Crystal Clements on setting the framework for a future discussion on addressing ethical concerns surrounding representation of gender for living persons in Wikidata, February 8th. Agenda
      • Wikidata Query Service scaling: You can join 2 calls and provide feedback at the 2 WDQS scaling community meetings on Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC, and Monday 21 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC. Full details here.
      • Live on Twitch and in French about Academic bibliographical data and Scholia by Vigneron and Jsamwrites, February 8 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #70 - YouTube, Facebook, February 12 at 19:00 UTC
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #95, February 13 at 13.00 UTC
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • January 1st as date
    • Wikidata has 2,540,891 items for people with both date of birth and date of death. There are 9 redirects for every 100 such items. (source). 2000 people share dates of birth and death with another person.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Tracking down one last issue with the upload of mismatch files. Once that is fixed we are ready to release the tool.
    • Lexicographical data: Started coding on the rewrite of Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand and use.

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.

Tech News: 2022-06

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

  • English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
  • Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [3]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #507

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
    • Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (phab:T301247)

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Tech News: 2022-07

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

  • Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [4]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [5]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Brian Keating Article

Hi User:Mike Peel. I just wanted to reach out and see if you think you might have some time to rework Brian Keating's page as you had mentioned. He and I are no longer working together, so he is relying on a volunteer noticing he has updates. Thanks and best! LeepKendall (talk) 01:04, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

@LeepKendall: It's on my to-do list, although I haven't managed to get to it yet. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:35, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you User:Mike Peel. LeepKendall (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #508

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Development
    • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
    • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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.

Tech News: 2022-08

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

  • Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [6]
  • At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [7]
  • You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [8]
  • There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [9][10]
  • Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [11]
  • Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox aircraft begin/Wikidata

Template:Infobox aircraft begin/Wikidata has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 19:15, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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