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Wikidata weekly summary #399

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
  • Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

• Tool of the week
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
  • Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
  • The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
    • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
  • Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
  • Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
  • Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
  • Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
  • Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
  • Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
  • Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
  • Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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) 16:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-04

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

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [2]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [3]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

• News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

• Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

• In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

• Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

• News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

• Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

• In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

• Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

• From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

• Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

• Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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Wikidata weekly summary #400

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

• Welcome to the 400th Weekly Summary! Here are some interesting Wikidata facts or queries collected by the community and related to the number 400:
  • Item #400 is Jenna Jameson; Property #400 is platform (software), and Lexeme #400 is "vierhonderd" - Dutch for "four hundred". The QID for the natural number 400 is Q1535396. The QID for the year 400 is Q25621.
  • The page ID 400 is Ludwig van Beethoven; the Wikidata page version ID 400 was a version of printer.
  • The Greek philosopher Hypatia, one of the first women scientists, became head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria, in 400 AD. We include her here in tribute to those working to reduce Wikidata's gender gap.
  • Wikimedia Commons has 627 images taken with the Canon PowerShot A400 - you can see one on baritone saxophone.
  • Map of things at an altitude of 400 m.
  • Map of places with a population of 400 ± 5 (yellow) graduating to 400 ± 0 (red).
  • From this query, Wikidata knows of 21 theatres, 15 cinemas, 11 sports venues, 11 event venues, and 9 ships having a maximum capacity of 400.
  • Image grid of taxa with a highest observed lifespan of at least 400 years.
  • Image grid of items with a mass of 400 kilograms and image grid of items with a mass of 400 grams.
  • List of 400m distance sports events.
  • 400 Ducrosa is a main-belt asteroid named after J. Ducros.
  • List of items with an external ID equal to 400.
  • Last but not least, 400 dahlias for Léa, Lydia and the other contributors to this list!

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata office hour on Telegram, January 22nd. Notes of the meeting
  • Upcoming: WikiTuesday / Wikidata Talks Meetup in Istambul, Turkey, January 28th
  • Upcoming: online meeting dedicated to organizers of Wikidata's 8th birthday, January 29th

• Tool of the week
  • Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
  • OpenRefine usage survey 2020
  • Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: attested as, category for files created with program, period of lactation, aperture
    • External identifiers: C64.COM ID, c64games.de ID, eu-football.info team ID, museum in Salzburg (AT) ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, Upper Austria Museum ID, WorldCat Identities ID, word in DEJ of RAE ID, HAL article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LiverTox Likelihood Score, dean, stated age in source, US Bureau of Prisons Register Number, located in the constituency, motherboard, WMF short URL, Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, supported metadata, expansion, historic first, number of pins, number of pin positions, catalogue raisonné, Dose, value group number, external georeferencer URL, axis, Voting system, image revision-id, region within image, georeferencing data, based on tabular data, Number of active electronic terminals, associated with, translated title, position in sequence, Attribution text, food energy, madhhab, Maximum number of playable characters, Main deity, electron configuration, capital social, gained territory from, key col of, religion or world view, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, menu items, food composition, IP address or range, featured in, lighting, general law, territorial entity ranking context, references, mentions named entity, hardiness
    • External identifiers: NASA active astronaut ID, VGMRips company ID, DSSTOX compound identifier, Roglo person ID, VGMRips system ID, Museu de Memes ID, Nobel API ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Canmore object-type ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, GameRevolution game ID, TrueAchievements game ID, PARADISEC Catalog, ELAR ID, ChemSynthesis ID, Whaling History ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Ciência ID, 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Ident.Nr., GoodRx, part number, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, MIC, UEFA referee ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, TrueAchievements series ID, Bollywood Hungama ID 2, Gamekult game ID
  • Query examples:
    • The results of the Australian Triple J Hottest 100, 2019 music voting poll were published on 25 January 2019. See the results with associated music videos to watch.
    • Map of destinations from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
    • 50 philosophers for which DBpedia and Wikidata state different date of birth (source)

• Development
  • More work on wb_terms migration
  • Units support for quantity datatype (phab:T239474)
  • Fix the link to rawgraphs.io from WDQS (phab:T222257)
  • More work on showing messages related to permissions on the Wikidata Bridge
  • Tainted references: fix minor alignment issues (phab:T243269, phab:T242212)
  • Add a "remove warning" button to confirm a correct reference (phab:T234789)
  • Preparing the ground for a unified component library for the Wikidata UI

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) 16:03, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05

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

Problems

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [4][5]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [6]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 37

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

• #1Lib1Ref
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

Read the full newsletter

On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #401

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mike Peel

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
  • Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
  • Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham

• Tool of the week
  • VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
  • 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
  • Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
  • Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
  • OpenRefine 3.3 was released

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
    • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
    • External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
    • Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
    • Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
    • Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)

• Development
  • Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
  • Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
  • Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
  • More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
  • More work on 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.

• 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) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06

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

Changes later this week

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

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20:05, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #402

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc

• Events
  • Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
  • Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
  • WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
  • Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
  • Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.

• Tool of the week
  • Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
  • Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
  • "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
  • Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
  • Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
  • There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
  • Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
    • External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID
  • Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
    • Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
    • Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
    • List of this year’s Academy Awards winners

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
  • Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (phab:T233295)
  • Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
  • Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (phab:T231731)
  • Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
  • Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (phab:T244129)
  • Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (phab:T243158)

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) 16:24, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [7]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [8]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue I, January 2020 Headlines Australia report: Burning Finland report: Wikiviews from Benin: Wikipedia in the Tower of Babel France report: Paris musées; Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève Indonesia report: 1st PD Day in Indonesia; visitation to GLAM institutions Italy report: Brand new and old faithful wikimedian in residence! New Zealand report: Macrons and museums Norway report: Sámi cultural heritage Sweden report: FindingGLAMs Challenge; Art by Edvard Munch from the Thiel Gallery; More European archives on Wikidata; OpenGLAM now! – watch the presentations; Wikipedia in Libraries Switzerland report: Wikidata for Libraries Hackday Series USA report: Knowledge Graphs and Meetups Special story: New Book Calendar: February'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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Wikidata weekly summary #403

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

• Discussions
  • Versionize property definitions ?
  • Closed request for comments: Non-free content

• Events
  • Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
  • Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf

• Tool of the week
  • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
  • Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
  • Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
    • External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
    • External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register
  • Query examples:
    • Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
    • Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
    • Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
    • Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
    • Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)

• 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

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Tech News: 2020-08

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

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	I just noticed you are the creator of the WikiAdventure! Great work! Bobherry Talk Edits 02:42, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bobherry: Thank you so much! -Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 22:10, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Adventure in Turkish

Hi Ocaasi,
You have created a lovely gamification example, just wow. :)
I'm interested in gamification to some degree. I saw your creation yesterday by chance but loved the concept & also the graphics. I would like to create a translated version in Turkish Wikipedia. Is it ok for you? (For main account anerka) --Anerka (talk) 11:43, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

@Anerka: Yes of course! Several other communities have done this and you can see more here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Adventure --Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 13:33, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #404

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• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
  • Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)

• Events
  • Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
  • When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
  • Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
  • “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
  • soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
  • Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
    • External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
    • External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
  • Query examples:
    • Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
    • SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
    • countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
    • places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
    • Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)

• 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.

• 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: 2020-09

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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020

• From the editor: The ball is in your court

• News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

• Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

• In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

• Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

• Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

• By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

• Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

• In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

• Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

• From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

• Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

• Gallery: Feel the love

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

• Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

• Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

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

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Wikidata weekly summary #405

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events
  • March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
  • July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
  • Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
  • Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
  • About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
    • Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
    • Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
    • External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
    • External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
  • Query examples:
    • Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
    • British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
    • Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
    • People with profiles on the Washington Post website

• 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.

• 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: 2020-10

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

Problems

• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [12]

Changes later this week

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [13]
• When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [14]
• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [16]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [17]

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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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Aasim 17:09, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #406

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
  • New request for comments: Restrictions on making items

• Events
  • WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
    • Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
  • The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson

• Tool of the week
  • wikibase-cli (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a batch mode, and EditGroups support (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for feedback!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
  • EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at
    • External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
    • People affected by COVID-19
    • Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
    • Images for language items (source)

• 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.

• 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) 16:34, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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 search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [18][19][20]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
• The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [21]

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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue II, 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 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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Wikidata weekly summary #407

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

• Events
• Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.
  • Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14
  • Postponed:
    • Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
    • WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
  • Cancelled:
    • Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  • Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
  • Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
  • Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
  • Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts

• Tool of the week
  • TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New help page: Suggesters and selectors
  • All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
  • Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
  • QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
  • News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
    • External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
    • External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of films about pandemics
    • World map of hospitals (source)
    • English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
    • Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
  • Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths

• 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • 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) 16:57, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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 API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [23][24]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #408

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7th, 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+2) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #6, March 29
  • Postponed: Wikimania Bangkok is postponed until 2021

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences, Andra Waagmeester et.al.
  • Tensor Decompositions for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion ("Additionally, we propose a new dataset for knowledge base completion constructed from Wikidata ... for evaluating temporal and non-temporal link prediction methods.")

• 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A task force is formed under WikiProject India to work on 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India (Q84055514)
  • Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration (wb_terms is not updated anymore and will be renamed next week)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: food energy, quantity symbol, depicted format, electron configuration, endorsed by, ordered by, research subject recruitment status, footedness, IM channel, number of recoveries, number of clinical tests
    • External identifiers: FandangoNow ID, CVR person ID, Faculté des sciences de Nancy ID, Filmfront film ID, stargate-wiki.de article, AncientFaces person ID, Decine21 ID, ACM Conference ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, ExoticA ID, Hrvatska enciklopedija ID, ACM Journal ID, Kanopy ID, Mirabile author ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Mirabile saint ID, Mirabile title ID, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, Treccani Dizionario di Filosofia ID, Colecovision Zone ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, Gry Online company ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Haz-Map ID, Social Security Death Index entry, ColecoVision.dk ID, US Bureau of Prisons Inmate Register Number, Google Scholar case ID, Adventure Games series ID, Trakt.tv ID, Compendium heroicum ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development English ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tilt, Dog and cat breed registries, terminology, perpetrator, virtual tour, victims, décès, subpopulation 2, Institutionskennzeichen (IK), ODMP person ID, is metaclass for, correct spelling
    • External identifiers: Unified registration number, AGROVOC ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, PIV Online ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Curran Index Contributor ID, Curran Index Periodical ID, Artprice artist ID, Reta Vortaro, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, identifiant co-optimus.com, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, CIRIS author ID, motorsportstats.com series, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com team ID, CAB ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, curlingzone.com ID, Visit Tuscany ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent common ancestors of George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II
    • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks
    • COVID-19 case statistics for India:
      • State-level map
      • State-level line graph
    • Lakes spanning at least 3 countries (source)
    • Michelin starred restaurants in Luxembourg (source)

• Development
  • Federated properties: set up a test system (phab:T247734)
  • ore work on search for remote properties (phab:T246349)
  • Bridge: more work on messages about the license (phab:T238728)

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.
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Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problems

• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [25][26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

• From the editors: The bad and the good

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Wikidata weekly summary #409

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

• Events
  • Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
  • Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
  • Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
  • Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
  • Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
  • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
  • Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
  • Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • About Wikidata dumps:
    • No second XML dump in March
    • RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
  • Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
  • Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
  • wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
    • External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
    • External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born more than a year after one of their parents
    • UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
    • National flags representing mountains (source)
    • Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)

• 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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
  • 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: 2020-14

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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [28]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [29]

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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

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.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
  • Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
  • Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
  • Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
  • Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
  • ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
  • SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
  • Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron

• 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
  • Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
  • New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
  • schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
  • Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
  • wb_terms table will be emptied today
  • Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
    • External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
    • External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Country-level citation graph for #COVID19 (source)
    • Movies from artfilm.ch in free access (source)
    • Topic co-occurrence graph in the SARS-CoV-2 & #COVID19 literature (source)
    • Fibulas in Musée Saint-Raymond with date, material, location of discovery

• 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.

• 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: 2020-15

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

Problems

• There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes

• MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [31]

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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2020

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue III, March 2020 Headlines Australia report: Know My Name; Public libraries of Queensland join Wikidata Colombia report: Gender gap, Wikipedia and Libraries from the GLAM team France report: WikiGoths; WikiTopia Archives Indonesia report: Volunteers' meet-up; Wiki Cinta Budaya 2020 structured data edit-a-thon Ireland report: Video tutorials; Celtic Knot Conference 2020 Kosovo report: WoALUG and NGO Germin call Albanian Diaspora to contribute to Wikipedia Netherlands report: Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen contributes to Wikimedia Commons again; Student research on GLAM-Wiki at Erasmus University Rotterdam Serbia report: March Highlights - Everything is postponed Sweden report: FindingGLAMs; Wikipedia in libraries; Art from the Thiel Gallery Collections; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete UK report: Colourful Kimonos from Khalili USA report: Women & Editing in the time of virus Special story: COVID-19 Wikidata report: Lockdown Levellings WMF GLAM report: Mapping GLAM-Wiki collaborations Calendar: April'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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Tech News: 2020-16

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

• You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [32]
• You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [33]
• You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
• When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [34]
• There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [35]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [36][37][38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

• Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [39]
• The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
• For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #411

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

• Discussions
  • CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine

• Events
  • Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
  • Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
  • Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
  • Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
  • Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope

• Tool of the week
  • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
  • You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
  • The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
  • ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
  • For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
  • ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
  • A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
  • Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
    • External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
  • External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID
  • Query examples:
    • Names of countries without letter "a" (source)
    • Infectious diseases and their number of cases (source)
    • Map of mountain huts in Bulgaria (source)
  • Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)

• Development
  • Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
  • Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
  • Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
  • More work on Automated finding references
  • More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
  • Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)

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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Wikidata weekly summary #412

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
  • Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
  • Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
  • Videos:
    • Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
    • A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
    • Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
    • The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function wikibase:isSomeValue()
  • The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
  • LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
  • The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
  • New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: eligible award recipient
    • External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
    • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile
  • Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
  • Query examples:
    • Women with cats in paintings (Source)
    • Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
    • Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
    • Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
    • Counties in England (Source)
    • Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
    • Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
    • Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
    • Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
    • English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
    • Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
    • Chief Mousers(Source)
    • Books about Semantics (Source)
    • Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
  • Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)

• Development
  • Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
    • try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
    • allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
    • investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
    • com up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
    • identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
    • create design system components to continue improving consistency

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: 2020-17

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

• The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [40]
• Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [41]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [42]
• The font in the diffs will change. [43]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2020

• News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

• In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

• Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

• Featured content: Featured content returns

• Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

• Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

• Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

• Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

• Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

• By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

• Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

• In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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Wikidata weekly summary #413

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Udder balm
  • CheckUser nomination: علاء

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
  • Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wiki Workshop 2020: Report
  • Editing food items and querying glaciers: YouTube and Facebook
  • Interactions between VIAF and Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
  • Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
  • The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts
  • Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
    • External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
    • External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code
  • Query examples:
    • Pairs of lakes named after a couple
    • The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
    • Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
    • Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
    • Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
    • TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
    • Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
    • There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
    • Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
    • Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
  • Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook

• Development
  • More work on error screens for the Bridge
  • Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
  • Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
  • Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
  • Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
  • Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
  • Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
  • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)

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) 15:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Issue 38, January – April 2020

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

• New partnership
• Global roundup

Read the full newsletter

On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikidata weekly summary #414

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata

• Events
  • Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
  • Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
  • Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
  • 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
  • Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: COVIDWHO ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly numeric ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Republic of Korea Parliamentarian Society ID, NKAA ID, MémorialGenWeb monument ID, History Colorado ID, SciProfiles ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, CONI honoured ID, DGHS facility code, Diels-Kranz ID, DPVweb ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID, FactGrid item ID, Heritage Gateway ID, RPPS ID, Priset of Archidiecezja Gdańska ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID, Extratime.ie player ID, Slovak Registration ID, Infames Romani ID, Itch.io developer profile, Oregon Historic Sites Database ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Ex-libris, tabular case data, Geneanet URL(s), transitivity, Compatible with
    • External identifiers: DPE school code, identifiant Prix de Lausanne, CDAPNC author ID, identificativo Giunta regionale della Sicilia, Goodreads work ID, Wikilengua, BeWeb cultural institution ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, Group Properties wiki ID, House Divided ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item, Gitabitan.net ID, The Conversation author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (Source)
    • Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (Source)
    • Recipes that include garlic (Source)
    • Images of postcards from the catalog of the Regional bibliography of Saxony (Source)
  • French municipalities which have the property "archived by" (P485) for the departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône (Source)
    • Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants in the Basque Country (Source)
    • People born in Wales who became head of government in Wales or overseas (Source)
    • Average stardate of Star Trek episodes (Source)
    • Municipalities in mainland France with more than 50,000 inhabitants (Source)
    • Graph showing direct ancestral lines linking Boris Johnson and George I, and Jesus and Abraham (Source)
    • Photos by Carlton Watkins with their collection (Source)
    • Works from Louvre Museum whose inventory number begins with an S (Source)
    • Works from the Islamic arts department of Louvre Museum (Source)
    • Map of artists with place of their birth on Wikidata (Source)
    • Location and image of the cathedrals of Paris (Source)
    • Jewish art collectors and dealers who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Notable descedents of Mayflower passengers

• Development
  • Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
  • More work on the test system for federated properties
  • More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
  • Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
  • Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
  • Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
  • Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
  • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
  • Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
  • Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)

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: 2020-19

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

Problems

• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [44]
• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [45]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [46]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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