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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.

Tech News: 2020-33

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

  • FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [1]

Problems

  • The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [2]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3][4]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2020



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Thank you for your contributions on the Stonehaven derailment article

The Current Events Barnstar
I wanted to reach out and thank you for your hard work on keeping the Stonehaven derailment article up-to-date and factual. This is the first major article that I have made, and it has been good to see editors such as yourself work hard to help record the facts of such a tragic incident. Thank you. AimeeSunflower (talk) 10:28, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

What is it then?

Hi Pigsonthewing, as a matter of curiosity, I would be interested to know what you think the name of their website is then? -- DeFacto (talk). 07:06, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

It probably has no name; but most people would refer to it as "the BTP's website". HTH. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:12, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
The {{cite web}} 'website' parameter is documented to be for "Title of website". The BTP website cited has their logo and the title "British Transport Police" clearly emblazoned at the top of that page, and on all others that I looked at on that sub-domain, including their homepage. So it's not immediately clear to me why you would disagree that that is the website name. Can you elaborate please. -- DeFacto (talk). 09:50, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Ask any person in the street what the BTP is; they will tell you it is a police force. No-one will tell you it is a website. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:57, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
We're in the context of citing a website though, and that's the name on that one. The same test would fail for many 'eponymously' named websites - think BBC (a TV broadcaster?), Tesco (a supermarket?), The Guardian (a newspaper?). And what about names that are usually thought of as websites - think Google, eBay, Facebook - would your test mean that they cannot also be considered to be organisation or company names too? -- DeFacto (talk). 10:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
It is not the name of a website; there is no website whose name is "British Transport Police". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

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JarrahTree 13:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Hemi Pomara

Thank you for the article on Hemi Pomara! Very snazzy. ─ ReconditeRodent « talk · contribs » 15:13, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Charles Freegrove Winzer, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Corpus Christi College.

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Wikidata weekly summary #429

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
    • Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
    • Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
    • Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
    • Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
    • Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
    • Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)


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: 2020-34

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 revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [5]
  • The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [6]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [7][8]

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20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Help Requested: Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Another Wikipedian came by and tagged the Pritzker Military Museum & Library for primary sources, etc. and Pritzker Military Presents as an AfD. Can you help address the respective issues? TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red

A tough one, but there's no article on Eileen Gibb who wrote the Sammy the Shunter and Billy the Bus books in the 1940s/50s. I wrote the article on Sammy the Shunter in 2008, but it has now been nominated for deletion. Several editors have suggested merging into an article on Eileen Gibb. Mjroots (talk) 18:05, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2020

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Wikidata weekly summary #430

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Two new grant programs from WikiCite, in support of open citations and linked bibliographic data.
Full documentation, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, program design principles, and contacts at the links. Apply by 1 October.
  1. Project & events [$2-10k]
  2. e-Scholarships [per-diem calculated on your city; 1-5 people (single, or as a 'remote group') for 2-4 days, for COVID-era "stay at home" projects. Paid in advance living allowance, no expense report required.]
  • Development
    • Deployed the first version of the Wikidata Bridge to Catalan Wikipedia
    • Creating Grafana Dashboards for the new Wikidata Bridge so we have some data to help us determine which datatypes to support next for example (phabricator:T260532)
    • Finished working on ensuring Labels of Items in some unusual, often minority, languages are still available on Wikipedia and other clients (phabricator: T259340)
    • Fixed error messages for API modules that will not work with the first version of Federated Properties (phabricator:T258558)
    • Working on improving how ORES judges the quality of an Item to make it more accurate
    • Started coding on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well

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: 2020-35

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 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

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My user page

Uhm, hi, I'm still active. I was very active today and year round. LefcentrerightDiscuss 21:34, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

@Lefcentreright: Apologies; I was working my way down a list of users and must have clicked the wrong link. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

"Not Here" template

Before you place any headers on my talk page, either check my recent contributions, or ask me. Besides of the fact of being active, I've placed articles I'm working on nomination and the Guild of Copy-editors just to name a few. To say I'm not around basically also deters people from contacting me via my talk page. It is just unacceptable.--GDuwenTell me! 12:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

August

August
Sunflowers in Walsdorf

Thank you for improving articles in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #431

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Working on Automated Configuration Discovery to make it easier for tool builders to make their tools work for other Wikibase instances as well
    • Polishing remaining pieces of the first version of Federated Properties to make it possible to use Wikidata's Properties in other Wikibase instances
    • Continuing to work on improving the way ORES automatically scores the quality of an Item to make it more accurate

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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