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This Month in GLAM: April 2020



Headlines
  • Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable
  • Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy
  • France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources
  • Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020
  • Ireland report: Hunt Museum image donation; Livesteaming and video demonstrations
  • Italy report: Archivio Ricordi, webinars and videos
  • Kosovo report: One Village, One Article for each village in Albania and Kosovo
  • Netherlands report: Photo collections Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden; meetup and media donations for Wiki goes Caribbean; first online WikiFriday
  • Sweden report: Skrivstuga (edit-a-thon) online – Wikipedia in libraries
  • Switzerland report: More women on Wikipedia
  • UK report: Japanese silk and Spanish iron
  • USA report: Earth Day
  • Wikidata report: Seven Million People Can't Be Wrong
  • Calendar: May's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2020-20

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

  • Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [1]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [5]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #416

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
  • Development
    • In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g. ?fiancé, ?π) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
    • Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
    • More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
    • Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)

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: 2020-21

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

  • If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [6][7]

Problems

  • There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [8]
  • Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [9][10]

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [12]
  • Advanced item Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [13]
  • Advanced item Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

editing references (citation sources)

Hi Andy

Professor Natalie Stingelin has asked me to update her Wiki page with accurate details. I have done this today, but we have noticed that reference 16 needs to be replaced with the following: Jamieson, F.C., Buchaca Domingo, E., McCarthy-Ward, T., Heeney, M., Stingelin, N. & Durrant, J., Chem. Sci. 3, 485 (2012) ”Fullerene crystallisation as a key driver of charge separation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells” https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SC00674F

However, I could not work out how to do it.

Please can you help me to find somebody (if not yourself) to do this?

Many thanks

Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by SPT Paul Topham (talk • contribs) 16:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

@SPT Paul Topham: Hi Paul, done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:57, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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 visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [14]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #417

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.

  • Tool of the week
    • If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
  • Development
    • Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
    • Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)

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.

June 2020 at Women in Red

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June 2020, Volume 6, Issue 6, Numbers 150, 151, 167, 168, 169

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--Rosiestep (talk) 17:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

May

May · Mary · Monteverdi

Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

Hi Pigsonthewing, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer.

Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer.

To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process!

Sent to all Articles for Creation reviewers as a one-time notice. To opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Regards, Sam-2727 (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

added CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
removed Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #418

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
    • Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
    • Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
    • As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
    • Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
    • New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
    • Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
  • Development
    • More documentation for federated properties
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
    • Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
    • Fix various bugs on Wikibase
    • Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
    • Create reports for the reference hunt game

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: 2020-23

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

  • There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [15]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [16][17][18]
  • The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [19]

Changes later this week

  • You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [20]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Advice about draft article: Allison Greenlees

Hi Andy,

I hope I'm using this space correctly. I'm still trying to work out how things are here so please let me know if I've gone in a wrong direction! I really enjoyed the editathon yesterday and I'm feeling the bug. The article I worked on is sitting in draft here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Allison_Greenlees and I have not sent it to 'article' yet because I've got a question there about the title of the page and a potential re-direct. Would you mind having a look for me when you have time? Also, any general advice about the style is welcome. I will be contacting Girguiding Scotland when it is published to ask for their help in filling in some gaps about Allison Cargill/Greenlees, including photos, etc. Very exciting! LeahLockhart (talk) 11:50, 2 June 2020 (UTC)LeahLockhart

@LeahLockhart: Your message here is fine, but you don't need to put your name after your "signature". The article looks really good; can you add citations for her dates of birth and death, and being the first GG? I'll reply to your question on the draft article's talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:04, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Recent revisions

Hello, Pigsonthewing. Do you think these recent edits by a banned sockpuppet to Lists of Dutch inventions and discoveries and List of Dutch inventions and innovations are appropriate? [21] [22] I'm asking since you appear to be a major contributor to both. Amanuensis Balkanicus (talk) 21:13, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

@Amanuensis Balkanicus: On a cursory reading: no. Feel free to revert them. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:20, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
I simply wanted to bring it to your attention. I don't have the time to go through what the sockpuppet did and didn't remove with a fine-tooth comb (the article has since been edited by Fountains of Bryn Mawr), but since you contributed so heavily I figured you might take a look. Amanuensis Balkanicus (talk) 21:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

A request for comment

Hello there. I gather it is all right to refer to you as Andy in talk? I say this because despite your "Pigsonthewing" signature and user name, you are someone whose real-life identity is both verified and relatively notable. Question: are you someone who has been in contact with the remaining members of Pink Floyd? I'll explain why I ask with my next post. Thanks. --Coldtrack (talk) 19:23, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

I have, but not for some time. Andy is fine Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Cheers Andy. I was just curious because I too like them, hence I know the Animals album from where your username is taken! :) Sorry to raise a political subject here. It's your opinion I need. I have both since re-logging in last week and in previous edits from 2018 been involved in a debate regarding the White Helmets. In short, I am (I admit) influenced by the Russian media (ie. Syrian/Iranian also) and my/our position that the Helmets are terrorist-affiliated runs counter to the mainstream narrative which promotes them as benign. Now the loop we're in is this: our opponents say that among the sources, Block 1 is WP:RS and Block 2 is unreliable. As you know, everyone can go round in circles over that one til the cows come home. However, amid the "Block 2" I was citing was Roger Waters. Those of course pushing the "White Helmets are good" standpoint also claim that he is not a reliable source as he is a musician. Now my point is that yes, Waters is primarily a musician, however he is also an outspoken political activist and as such, I believe that his status as a musician is not relevant on matters regarding politics because one's political activism is notable as indeed there are cases where one's notability is PURELY from being a political activist (eg. Sunsara Taylor). Now just so you know, neither I nor other editors on the same gunboat have ever implied reversing the White Helmets article, only rewriting it to reflect WP:PARITY. Do you believe it is all right to cite Waters and others similar somewhere on the article? Your thoughts are appreciated. Cheers. --Coldtrack (talk) 20:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I don't have a view; please follow the steps listed at WP:DR. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:21, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Cheers fellow. All the best. --Coldtrack (talk) 21:43, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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