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Wikidata weekly summary #470

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
    • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
      • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
      • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
      • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
  • Development
    • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
    • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
    • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
    • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
    • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
    • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

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: 2021-22

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

Problems

  • There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [2]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #471

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
    • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
    • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
    • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)


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: 2021-23

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [3][4][5]
  • Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [6]
  • Advanced item The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [7][8]

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:Associates of the Royal College of Organists has been nominated for deletion

Category:Associates of the Royal College of Organists has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:36, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

added Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
removed Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2021



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The Flying Pig

Another pub FYI. It's not so local but it has interesting associations... Andrew🐉(talk) 22:19, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: Thank you. I approve of the name... Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #472

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
    • WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
  • Development
    • Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
    • Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
    • Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

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: 2021-24

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

  • Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [9]
  • Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [10]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
  • German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [11]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [12][13]

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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Politecnico di Milano 2021-06-14

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Alessia Arrigoni (talk) 12:43, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Monza. --Fador789 (talk) 12:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Birghingam. --Lauraceresa (talk) 12:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Lucaintro (talk) 12:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy from Milan. --Lavalec (talk) 12:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Andrea from Piacenza. --Scraich (talk) 12:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

hello

hello andy from Milan. --Wikifili1989 (talk) 12:45, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, this is Mario D'Onghia. --Wario93 (talk) 12:46, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I am Marta from Milan. --Margalb (talk) 12:47, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Brusio5, nice to meet you! --Brusio5 (talk) 12:50, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello Andy,I'm Elisa! --Elisa191996 (talk) 12:50, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello Wikipedia:GLAM/PoliMi/2021

How are you! Do you like Pink Floyd? This is Kasyapa Sriram Kompella --BO3064 (talk) 12:51, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Zheeeng (talk) 12:51, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I am Eugenio from Milan. --EugenioTL (talk) 12:52, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Birmingham. --Beatrice Lotesoriere (talk) 12:52, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Andrea Macrelli (talk) 12:52, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I am Matteo from Monza. Matteored1993 (talk) 12:54, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I am Cristiana from Monza. --PeCris93 (talk) 12:55, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy! It's Edoardo from Florence. --EdoardoRamalli (talk) 12:56, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Enrico from Politecnico di Milano, Milan. --Zibolo (talk) 12:56, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Tommaso from Varese. --Tommaso Papa (talk) 12:56, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello Andy, I'm Mirko, from Milan. --Mirko Salaris (talk) 12:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Martina Signorini (talk) 12:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Francesca tagliaferri polimi (talk) 12:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Marco from Milan. --Marcovedoa (talk) 12:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy. Regards from Milan I am Diana Pamela Villa --Luthienrecanto (talk) 12:58, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Cheers Andy! I am Federico. --FedericoVis (talk) 12:59, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, I'm Stavroula from Athens, Greece. --Stav vov (talk) 12:59, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello pigsonthewings, again I congratulate for the choice of the nickname --Ettore morosini (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy, I'm Nicola Zecca from Morbegno. --Nicolazecca (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Andy, this is Ammer Harb

--Criticaldesigner (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. --Riccardo Munafò (talk) 13:01, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. It's Yi Yuan. --HybridCFD (talk) 15:02, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy from Milan. It's Hongming ShuHongming Shu (talk) 08:47, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

June thanks

Thank you for improving articles in June, with some impressions of places, flowers and music for you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:03, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #473

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
    • Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

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: 2021-25

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

  • Advanced item The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [14]

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [15]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

July 2021 at Women in Red

Women in Red | July 2021, Volume 7, Issue 7, Numbers 184, 188, 202, 203, 204, 205


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