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Wikidata weekly summary #425

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #426

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

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

A brownie for you!

Hi! I volunteer for CooeCapella Reflect12 (talk) 00:20, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

@Reflect12: Thank you for the virtual brownie. Please feel free to ask me for editing help on this page if you need it. Oronsay (talk) 07:00, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Hi Oronsay, we have a new student with a wiki account. Her user name is Reflect12. She will try to send you a message too.

CooeeCapella (talk) 00:22, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

@CooeeCapella: Thanks for letting me know. I wonder if your kittens will eat her brownie? Have offered to help, if/when needed. Oronsay (talk) 07:02, 28 July 2020 (UTC)


@Oronsay: I don't think kittens eat brownies! CooeeCapella (talk) 08:28, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

June/July 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter

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June and July 2020—Issue 015


Tree of Life


Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
Newly recognized content

Canada lynx by Sainsf
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Leech by LittleJerry, Chiswick Chap and Cwmhiraeth
Orangutan by LittleJerry
Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber
Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek
Bat virome by Enwebb, reviewed by Chidgk1
Doedicurus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Hog Farm
Dwarf dog-faced bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77
Echinodon by IJReid, reviewed by JurassicClassic767
Edvard August Vainio by Esculenta, reviewed by ChiswickCahp
Hammer-headed bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Homo rudolfensis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by JurassicClassic767
Nina Demme by SusunW, reviewed by Enwebb
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Zebra by LittleJerry, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77

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Australopithecus deyiremeda by Dunkleosteus77
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Bonelli's eagle by Sandhillcrane
Great flying fox by Enwebb
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Ornithocheiridae by JurassicClassic767
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Paranthropus boisei by Dunkleosteus77
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Delivered on behalf of Enwebb (talk) 16:33, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427

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

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

Thank you

Thank you for sorting out Frances Dolina Ellis

MaryannM53 MaryannM53 (talk) 01:07, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

And thank you, too @MaryannM53: I have moved your message to the bottom of this page, given it a heading and fixed the link to the image – all good. The flowers are a glorious enhancement to my otherwise dull and business-like page! Oronsay (talk) 01:23, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
I came here to thank you for the same thing! hamiltonstone (talk) 23:49, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
@Hamiltonstone: You are most welcome. I enjoy helping the new editors being trained through the NGA Wikipedia:Know my name project. Oronsay (talk) 00:06, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Appreciation and question

Thank you very much for improving the reliability of information resources on Wikipedia. I am a young contributor here on Wikipedia, I find it difficult to learn how to submit draft and upload image on Wikipedia page. What advice can you give me? Do you have toturial practical to help me? Sadeeqzaria (talk) 08:40, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Elsa Marshall-Hall.

Dear "Oronsay",

Have you had a look at my comments at Talk:Elsa Marshall-Hall? I am interested in your feedback.

Stay safe, Albert Isaacs (talk) 23:39, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Dear "Oronsay",

Thank you for your prompt reply, and your advice re using Facebook on Wikipedia - appreciated! I have now replaced the two references with more reliable and direct links. I now look forward to the box at the top of the page being removed.

With appreciation, Albert Isaacs (talk) 02:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Dear "Oronsay",

Thank you again for your help, but I'm not sure what else you are suggesting that I do now . Your further help would be appreciated. For your information, I have certainly not had this sort of trouble with any of the other Wikipedia pages that I have started or made major contributions to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Albert_Isaacs).

Regards, Albert Isaacs (talk) 06:01, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #428

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past: Wikibase Live Session - August 2020. This session had a few people present on some of their work with modeling GLAM data in Wikibase or Wikidata. (replay)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, a project to present bibliographic information and scholarly profiles of authors and institutions, 11 August. [Agenda]
    • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #25, August 16
  • Development
    • finalized designs for the query builder to start coding at the beginning of September
    • wrapping up the initial work on the design system so that we can start using the first pieces of it in the query builder development
    • working on properly linking redirects in recent changes, watchlist and co (phabricator:T255387)
    • addressed remaining security review comments about the Wikidata Bridge so that we can deploy it finally on the first Wikipedia
    • fixed a bug where string values had the wrong length limit (phabricator:T259440)
    • finishing the work of untangling Wikibase Client and Wikibase Repository extensions to make development easier

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.

heritage listing

it is always ok anywhere - even as a separate section at the end of the text - better in that left out... JarrahTree 08:52, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I daresay you are correct, and I could have had my name shown in the article's history as the editor who added that information. I think it's probably the only time I've used a Talk page for that purpose, apart from when giving a new editor I know a few links for them to use to develop the article they're working on. That said, it did not take long for the info to be added to Parkes Observatory, so the end result was achieved. Oronsay (talk) 18:48, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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Playmarket edit-a-thon

Thanks for setting aside time to attend the Playmarket edit-a-thon Saturday, 15 August. Since New Zealand was placed back into Level 2/Level 3 status on Wednesday 12 August the social social distancing required means it's not possible for all participants to work at the Playmarket offices. So we are going to do it remotely - which might make it easier for you! I hope you are still able to participate.

The new schedule starts with: 11:00 am NZST: Introduction online at Whereby. Participants will choose articles to work on, and be briefed on resources available and communication during the day.

More information on the project page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Playmarket_Edit-A-Thon

Project organiser Pakoire (talk) 04:55, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

@Pakoire: Thank you for letting me know. I am sorry to hear the NZ news, but pleased I will be able to attend on the same footing as you all. Hopefully, I will find someone that I feel confident to update. If not, I'll continue to review articles on NZ literary awards or, possibly, theatres and update where I can. Oronsay (talk) 05:42, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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