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Wikidata weekly summary #340

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
    • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
    • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
    • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
    • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
    • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
    • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
    • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
    • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
    • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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.


December 2018 at Women in Red

The WiR December editathons provide something for everyone.



New: Photography Laureates Countries beginning with 'I'

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

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Christophe Szpajdel

Good day Mr. Mabbett. I would like to get your opinion on the creation of an article for Christophe Szpajdel. I see that you have added interlinks on Vision Éternel's article on several occasions, even though there is currently no page for Christophe Szpajdel. According to this Wikipedia article (Wikipedia:Red link), the rule seems to be that one adds a red link if he truly believes that an article deserves to be created for such a topic/person. Since you created this red link, I wanted to find out if you indeed believe that Christophe Szpajdel is worthy of having his own Wikipedia article created, and if so, do I have your support in creating one? -WikiGuruWanaB (talk) 19:10, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Given the ongoing problems with your editing at Vision Éternel, it would be better if you refrained from creating any new article, until you have become more familiar with our polices on verifiability, neutrality and reliable sources. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:00, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
I really appreciate your feedback Mr. Mabbett. I'm willing to learn and adapt to Wikipedia's strict guidelines, but as a human being, making mistakes is part of learning. I'm really doing my best to improve every article that I read on Wikipedia. I've never created a Wikipedia page before so this will certainly be another learning curve for me and I'm sure that I will make some mistakes. It would mean a lot to me if you'd show me no favoritism with editing and correcting the page that I plan to create for Christophe Szpajdel, as I truly value your feedback and contributions. So I do look forward to working together on making that page better and I am very happy that you deemed it important enough for creation on Wikipedia (because I have been a long-time fan of Christophe Szpajdel's illustrations).-WikiGuruWanaB (talk) 18:13, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Category:Geobox usage tracking for deprecated types

Is there a reason you retagged this page for deletion? I left a note in my edit summary AND pinged you in a post explaining why the page is still needed... --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:39, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Unintentional; sorry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:08, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

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Thank you ...

... for article quality improvements in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
removed Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

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Tech News: 2018-49

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

  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [1]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [2]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [3]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [4][5]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
    • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
    • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
    • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.
  • Development
    • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
    • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
    • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
    • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

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.


DYK for Des Helmore

On 6 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Des Helmore, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the artist Des Helmore illustrated more than 1,000 insect species from the New Zealand Arthropod Collection and had a weevil genus (species pictured) named after him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Des Helmore. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Des Helmore), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Clairmarais aerodrome

On 8 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clairmarais aerodrome, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clairmarais aerodrome. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Clairmarais aerodrome), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 12:02, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Good one! I put it on P:DE and gave precious to your co-writer. Happy to have the lead hook in the same set, Tönet, ihr Pauken!, which they shall do today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018

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Wikidata weekly summary #342

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
    • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
    • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
    • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
    • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
    • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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


Tech News: 2018-50

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [6][7]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [8]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Photo Walk Albania 2018; Wiki Loves Monuments Albania
  • Armenia report: Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar
  • Brazil report: Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community
  • Denmark report: Intercontinental digitisation efforts
  • Estonia report: Making contacts both internationally and in Estonia
  • Finland report: Art and edit-a-thons
  • France report: Bibliothèque publique d’information; 3D museum collections on Wikimedia Commons
  • Indonesia report: Conserving and digitizing texts in West Sumatra
  • Macedonia report: Wiki Training at National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid"
  • New Zealand report: Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times
  • Norway report: Collaboration with The National Archives of Norway
  • Philippines report: Wiki Loves Art
  • Poland report: Archival image uploads, student collaborations and international projects
  • Serbia report: Photo finish of the WIR's
  • Sweden report: The Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Library data starts to take shape; Learning Wikipedia at the Archives; Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
  • UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes
  • USA report: Wikidata Workshop at Pratt School of Information; Wikidata Presentation for the New York Technical Services Librarians; Wikipedia Asian Month; Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Workshop
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 31, October–November 2018
  • WMF GLAM report: Welcoming Satdeep Gill; Structured Data on Commons; WikiCite
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Page splitting/shortening

Hi, I see you're interested in splitting and shortening the very lengthy pages that have made it onto Special:LongPages, which I certainly welcome. Do you have any experience with cutting down these articles? Cheers. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC) Onetwothreeip (talk) 23:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, why? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:12, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
I'd like to know what pages you've split, that's why. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
Link to my edits in sig. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
I did have a look through that, you make a lot of edits though so it's hard to find. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

2018 Strasbourg shooting

You hard and high-quality work is much appreciated. Rama (talk) 12:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

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