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Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
    • Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
    • Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
    • Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
    • More work on reducing the resource loader modules
    • More work on tainted 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.

Could you help develop IWG plc article?

Pinging Pigsonthewing Hello! I am seeking help from researchers and writers from the Wikipedia community to develop the IWG plc page. For a 30-year old real estate company with history in 120 countries, the page is extremely incomplete. Its low quality grade (C-Class) and lack of an importance rating seems to prove this. Could you help support improve quality and completeness? Thanks for reading and feel free to ping me back with any questions. --KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 14:41, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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Undeletion of article - American who received Russian political asylum: John Mark Dougan

Hi Andy!

How R U? 😀


I see you are involved in Russian related articles...

I created

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 October 22 for John Mark Dougan

I am new to this process but from what I have seen it seems difficult to undelete an article. Any help that you can provide would be most helpful!

The article is here: User:Moscowdreams

☯️☯️☯️ Moscowdreams (talk) 20:05, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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"Template:WikiProject Herpetology" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WikiProject Herpetology. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WikiProject Herpetology redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Sun Creator(talk) 17:24, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Want to ask you something

@Pigsonthewing:

Hii Dear Sir, I want to ask you something. Recently I have created an article Kamz Inkzone I want to know why this article has not been reviewed yet. I asked a senior editor why this is so, he said that sometimes it can take too much time. Please tell me about it

Virenderthind2019 (talk) 01:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Virenderthind2019: As you were advised there is a long backlog of articles awaiting review. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:01, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing:

Okkk Sir, Thank You for your guidance. I want to ask you something. As if the page is not reviewed and can be sent to a senior editor and asked to review? Is this not a violation of rules? Please guide me for this thing. Virenderthind2019 (talk) 09:14, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


@Pigsonthewing: please Reply Sir

Virenderthind2019 (talk) 09:24, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Pigsonthewing,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 804 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Márta Kurtág

Thank you for thinking about Márta Kurtág (failed ITN, but now DYK)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #389

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
    • Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
    • Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
    • Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
    • Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
    • Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
    • Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
    • Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
    • Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
    • A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
    • Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
    • More work on tainted 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.


Tech News: 2019-45

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

  • At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [1]

Changes later this week

  • MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [2]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

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16:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

2019-11-06 Coventry University

Hello

Hello Andy, thanks for the Wikipedia training today. --PAHend1977 (talk) 15:36, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi there

Greetings from the splendid Coventry University Library. --CustosRotulorum (talk) 15:36, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy.--Ksg12310c (talk) 15:37, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy . --FlyingFishCov (talk) 15:37, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

2019-11-08 Coventry University

Hello

Hello Andy. Thanks for today's session. --VittoriaGatti96 (talk) 11:43, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

hello

Dzień dobry! :) Have a nice day. --Kinga amb (talk) 11:43, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy.

--Khadijae (talk) 11:44, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, interesting talk about wikipedia publishing policies.--Cal-at-30 (talk) 11:45, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Pink Floyd discography

Hi Andy, can you do me a quick favour? I've been cleaning up this article with a view to maybe improving it to Featured List status. I've improved the sourcing, but there are a couple of areas that I've tagged where I need to find good, reliable sources. I don't currently have a copy of Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery, but I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that you do. ;-) Can you help fix the tags I've put in the article? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:42, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

"2011 Norway attacks/Archive 1" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 2011 Norway attacks/Archive 1. Since you had some involvement with the 2011 Norway attacks/Archive 1 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. – Uanfala (talk) 14:19, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #390

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
  • Development
    • In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
    • Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
    • Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
    • Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
    • Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
    • Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
    • For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
    • Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
    • Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
    • Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
    • Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)

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.

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019

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Tech News: 2019-46

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

  • MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2019



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2019-11-14 Coventry University

Helloo

Hello Andy --Mafaldix (talk) 15:34, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello.

Hello Andy,

Thank you very much for your talk - I feel like I have learned a lot.

--Youngerd99 (talk) 15:34, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy. --Moreiras06 (talk) 15:35, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

hello

hello Andy,

--MsBrightly (talk) 15:35, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello! My name is Vyara. --VyaraManolova (talk) 15:37, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

hello

Hello Andy.--TiyannaNoel (talk) 15:37, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Workshop

Andy, you are running a workshop of sorts, I imagine? Thank you for doing so. Drmies (talk) 15:36, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

@Drmies: Yes, as part of Wikipedia:GLAM/Coventry University. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:50, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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