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Wikidata weekly summary #441

15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2020





Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Wikipedia in African Libraries Project
  • Brazil report: Abre-te Código hackathon, Wikidata related events and news from our partners
  • Finland report: Postponed Hack4FI GLAM hackathon turned into an online global Hack4OpenGLAM
  • France report: Partnership with BNU Strasbourg
  • Germany report: Coding da Vinci cultural data hackathon heads to Lower Saxony
  • India report: Mapping GLAM in Maharashtra, India
  • Indonesia report: Bulan Sejarah Indonesia 2.0; Structured data edit-a-thon; Proofreading mini contest
  • Netherlands report: National History Month: East to West, Dutch libraries and Wikipedia
  • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large
  • Norway report: The Sámi Languages on wiki
  • Serbia report: Many activities are in our way
  • Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
  • UK report: Enamels of the World
  • USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
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15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #442

Books & Bytes – Issue 41

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
  • WikiCite
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

ikidata weekly summary #443

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The Signpost: 29 November 2020

Wikidata weekly summary #444

17:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

added Izno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #445

This Month in GLAM: November 2020





Headlines
  • AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: Launch of Wikipedia in African Libraries Project Pilot Cohort
  • Brazil report: Accessibility through audio descriptions, GLAM tutorials, WikidataCon 2021 and more updates on Brazilian GLAMs
  • Canada report: Taking a tour of CAPACOA workshops and some recent example sets from commons
  • Germany report: German symphony orchestra releases audio samples under free license
  • India report: Re-licensing of content on water & rivers in India
  • Indonesia report: #WikiSejarah WPWP Campaign
  • Netherlands report: Wikipedia and Education, Funding granted for two projects in 2021, KB completes collection highlights project
  • Serbia report: GLAM in Serbia makes important steps in the digitization of cultural heritage
  • Spain report: Edit-a-thons on women scientists and painters
  • Sweden report: Music, UNESCO and Wikidata
  • UK report: Hundreds of Khalili images
  • USA report: Black Lunch Table & Museum Computer Network
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #446

21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of David Jubb for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article David Jubb is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Jubb until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hemiauchenia (talk) 01:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Cite Unseen update

Hello! Thank you for using Cite Unseen. The script recently received a significant update, detailed below.

  • You can now toggle which icons you do or don't want to see. See the configuration section for details. All icons are enabled by default except for the new Green checkmark generally reliable icon (described below).
  • New categorizations/icons:
    • Megaphone Advocacy: Organizations that are engaged in advocacy (anything from political to civil rights to lobbying). Note that an advocacy group can be reliable; this indicator simply serves to note when a source's primary purpose is to advocate for certain positions or policies, which is important to keep in mind when consuming a source.
    • Hand writing Editable: Sites that are editable by the public, such as wikis (Wikipedia, Fandom) or some databases (IMDb, Discogs).
    • Red journal with an X Predatory journals: These sites charge publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy.
    • Perennial source categories: Cite Unseen will mark sources as Green checkmark generally reliable, Exlamation mark in orange triangle marginally reliable, No symbol generally unreliable, Stop hand deprecated, and Black X blacklisted. This is based on Wikipedia's perennial sources list, which reflects community consensus on frequently discussed sources. Sources that have multiple categorizations are marked as Blue question mark varied reliability. Note that Green checkmark generally reliable icons are disabled by default to reduce clutter, but you can enable them through your custom config. A special thanks to Newslinger, whose new Sourceror API provides the perennial sources list in a clean, structured format.
  • With the addition of the new categorizations, the biased source icon has been removed. This category was very broad, and repetitive to the new advocacy and perennial sources categorizations that are more informative.

If you have any feedback, requested features, or domains to add/remove, don't hesitate to bring it up on the script's talk page. Thank you! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:29, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #447

20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

Wikidata weekly summary #448

Wikidata weekly summary #449

Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
  • Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #450

This Month in GLAM: December 2020





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Wikidata weekly summary #451

16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Graph of Reply tool and full-page wikitext edit completion rates
Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

  • The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
  • It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

  • As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
  • There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[29]
  • The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[30] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
  • A large A/B test will start soon.[31] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[32] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

  • New EBSCO collections now available
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
  • Library Card input requested
  • Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Wikidata weekly summary #452

18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyviobot

I found your name as an admin for what I think is the only existing copyviobot. Here's the situation: I discovered a red link for Anti-nuclear protests in the United States and discovered it have been deleted earlier in January for copyvio. I asked it be restored, the admin refused and another user noticed and restored the seriously incomplete version that is on line now. I found a cached version with a last edit dated November 20, 2020. That version has no accusations of copyvio (I would have though the admin could have done something similar). I suspect the copyvio could have been introduced in the month of December and doesn't affect the long standing content an its 145 pre-existing sources. I have placed the cached version in my sandbox User:Trackinfo/Anti-nuclear protests in the United States. Before I go any further with this version, I'd like to have the bot check it for copyvio. Hopefully I can find if there is a copyvio problem in the historical version, if there is, identify it so it can be cleaned up. How do I get the bot to even see a non-public page? And after it is done, how do I get the report of its findings? Would a clean report serve as evidence if the article were to come under attack again? Trackinfo (talk) 06:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Trackinfo, You want to ping Eran. Good luck! Ocaasi t | c 21:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Trackinfo: I'm not admin in enwiki, and don't have access to the whole edit history of the page. EranBot (and https://copypatrol.toolforge.org/en interface) tracks copyvio in level of diffs - I recommend using Earwig's Copyvio Detector for checking copyvio in the level of content. As for historical edits, that may or not added copies in late last year, copypatrol log, didn't catch them at the time (and the only relevant diff of 25-1-2021 is false positive report). Eran (talk) 10:55, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
And to be more correct, actually BD2412 when restoring the page with comment "restore non-copyvio content" - it would be more accurate from copyright perspective to mention in the talk page list of editors who contributed this content before it was deleted (since this is CC-BY-SA - we should give them attribution, unless you are the original contributor - in which case you already have that attribution in the page history) Eran (talk) 10:59, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Generally, the content that I have restored has been content that is non-copyvio because it is not subject to copyright in the first place—infoboxes, templates, and categories—to which I add what usually amounts to a one-line summary of the topic as text. Since I primarily deal with User:Billy Hathorn copyvios, this content is usually there because it was added by the same indefblocked editor who added the copyvio portions in the first place. Anti-nuclear protests in the United States is a rare exception to that practice. I frankly don't consider editors to be due any attribution if they happened to provide infoboxes and categories while creating articles that are despoiled with copyvios at the outset. BD2412 T 15:53, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

Wikidata weekly summary #453

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

17:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #454

This Month in GLAM: January 2021





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