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Wikidata weekly summary #391

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
  • Development
    • Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
    • Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
    • Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
    • Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
    • Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
    • Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)

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: 2019-47

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

Changes later this week

  • You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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2019-11-20 Coventry University

Hello!

Hi Andy. --Bookishbelle (talk) 11:57, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, there is a birthday party next door.--Danonmove (talk) 11:57, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Great

Hello Andy, you have a great profile --Sarikingu (talk) 11:58, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 36

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

CommonSpirit Health Page resubmission

Hi Andy, Thank you for your feedback on the draft:CommonSpirit Health page. I have made several edits, added additional citations and resubmitted to AfC. Would you be willing to rereview and accept the submission? This page was created upon request by an editor to replace the current redirect to Dignity Health Thank you Jeremy at A+P (talk) 17:06, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

@Jeremy at A+P: Done. Please check and tighten the categories. Also, if you can, add pictures. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:32, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, Andy. I'll take a look and see if I can find some images. Jeremy at A+P (talk) 13:53, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48

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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [2]
  • Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [3]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

Future changes

  • You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [4]

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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

December events with WIR

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Wikidata weekly summary #392

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
    • Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
    • Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
    • New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
  • Development
    • Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
    • More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
    • Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
    • More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
    • Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
    • Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
    • Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
    • Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)

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.


Hello

Hello Andy, Lovely day today.--Rudikgraham (talk) 17:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello from Coventry! --Margotllama (talk) 17:24, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hi nice to meet you. --Hedy He (talk) 17:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello there. --Don't take this name (talk) 17:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Giving thanks

November
Cassia javanica, Torremolinos
... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for article work in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2019

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 11 • November 2019

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In This Issue

The Signpost: 29 November 2019

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:24, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi, you recently left a comment at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Gallery. It should probably be moved to a more relevant talk page like Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-11-29/Gallery or WT:POST/N so that it will be noticed, and because it likely won't be relevant to the next draft Gallery article. (I only came across it because I'm tagging talkpages of the drafts for regular columns with {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Use newsroom}}) Thanks, - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. It was relevant to the corresponding page when I left it there. It was User:Chris troutman who moved that page but not my comment; no doubt now that he's aware, he will fix it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:50, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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

Administrator changes

added EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
removed Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

readded Beeblebrox
removed Deskana

Interface administrator changes

readded Evad37

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #393

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.
  • Development
    • Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
    • Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
    • Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
    • Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
    • Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
    • Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
    • Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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: 2019-49

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

  • Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [5]
  • Advanced item The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [6]

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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Autopopulate userpage starting info from ORCID

See meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikiversity/Autopopulate_userpage_starting_info_from_ORCID

Hi Andy. Given your role as ORCID Wikimedian in Residence, I realised I should post here that I've added a request on a few of these items on the 2020 Community Wishlist Survey. I also notified Brian Minihan at ORCID (email below). Are they also your contact there? Do you know what ORCID's current priorities are for further wikimedia integration? 

I'm keen to see more and more integration with Wikimedia and ORCID. There are a couple of items that may be useful to bring to your attention.

From ORCID -> Wikimedia
=================
There is an orcid-relevant proposal at this year's Wikimedia's technical feature wishlist. Voting will begin in the coming weeks. Link below.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikiversity

From Wikimedia -> Orcid
================
Some ORCID users include an item called "Wikipedia contributions" or equivalent. (e.g. on 0000-0002-6290-8490). Is there any mechanism by which such users could be able to provide their wikimedia username in order to automatically link to for describing overall contributions, or to individual pages to summarise particular contributions. Obviously, wiki contributions are quite different from scholarly unit contributions, but there are emerging ways of summarising and presenting that data, e.g.:

For a user: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Evolution_and_evolvability
For a Featured Article page: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Serpin
Or some way that better fits with ORCID's way of organising and keeping data?

I'll be interested to know where orcid see things heading. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 04:34, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Andy, have you had an opportunity to consider adding a sopport/oppose/comment to the ORCID community wishlist item? It would be good to get your feedback as ORCID's official Wikipedian in residence on whether it's possible. What're ORCID's priorities for wikimedia engagement through 2020? It'd be useful to know whether more can be done with them. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I thought I had posted support. Your message prompted me to check, and when I tried again, I'd missed the deadline :-( As for your original question, I'm awaiting feedback from ORCID following a staff meeting where a number of related issues were to be discussed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:57, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to comment on House of Representatives elections

Hello, since you have recently edited Talk:2020 United States House of Representatives elections, I am inviting you to an ongoing discussion taking place at Talk:2020 United States House of Representatives elections#RFC on inclusion of House elections. Orser67 (talk) 00:19, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Ron Saunders

On 8 December 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ron Saunders, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:37, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

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