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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

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Women in Red January 2024

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296


Online events:

Announcement

  • In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part
    of the #1day1woman initiative!

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:18, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

added Clovermoss
readded Dennis Brown
removed

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 6 § Category:Alumni by university or college in the United Kingdom

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 6 § Category:Alumni by university or college in the United Kingdom on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 17:44, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

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 is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
  • The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]

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The Bugle: Issue 213, January 2024

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

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This Month in GLAM: December 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania 2023
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina report: A year in review ...
  • Croatia report: 2023 in review
  • Czech Republic report: Wiki-residents establishing meeting took place in December
  • Germany report: Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg
  • Italy report: WLM Local winners and funds for 2024 GLAM projects
  • New Zealand report: Auckland Museum summer updates
  • Poland report: Intense end to a year of GLAM-Wiki activities in Poland
  • Sweden report: Photo memories project concludes; Sörmlands museum passes 1000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedian in Residence supports an upload of music content; Subject terms from Queerlit; Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program
  • UK report: 2023 in Review
  • USA report: WikiConference North America 2023; TSU and USF; Philadelphia WikiSalon; Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting; Wikipedia Editing 101 for All; NYC Hacking Night; Upstate NY workshop; Wikiquote She Said Project
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Thank you for making Wiki Loves Living Heritage happen!
  • WMF GLAM report: Updates and invitation to test the Commons Impact Metrics prototype
  • Calendar: January's GLAM events
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Category:Articles using obsolete parameters has been nominated for deletion

Category:Articles using obsolete parameters 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. Gonnym (talk) 11:01, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #611

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

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past
    • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
    • WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
  • The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
  • Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
  • mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
  • REST API:
    • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-03

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

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
  • Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5]
  • Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
  • You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
  • An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
  • Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
  • The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]

Future changes

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Tech News: 2024-04

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

  • A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [13][14]

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Scrap iron call

Hi Andy. I'm sorry that I missed this when you asked about it a year ago. Did you resolve your enquiry? I could comment a little but don't want to waste your time if it's faded into the background noise! Cheers DBaK (talk) 23:10, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered Please do! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:15, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
OK! Here? Or back at the original page? DBaK (talk) 23:21, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered Here is fine. Thanks. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:25, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Okeydoke. Sorry it's not instant but I will try to reply properly asap. Please nag me if it looks like I've gone off somewhere ... cheers DBaK (talk) 23:27, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Right then.

Rough transcription of trumpet fanfare in File:Scrap iron call - 2023-01-26 - Andy Mabbett.ogg
Rough transcription of trumpet fanfare in File:Scrap iron call - 2023-01-26 - Andy Mabbett.ogg with numbered harmonics

(I hope this hasn't trashed your page layout – on the Preview it doesn't look that great, so please feel free to revise any mess I have made!)

I'm in agreement with ColinFine in his comments at your original query. It's bits of the harmonic series played on a brass or brasslike instrument, the same as a bugle call. The five different notes, as in nearly all bugle calls, are the same as those used in Last Post. You haven't got that many notes to play with so everything sounds a bit like everything else, which is why it's amazing that we can have Last Post, Reveille (actually usually the Rouse really but don't get me started) and this lovely little Scrap Iron fanfare all coming from sort-of the same source.

As it only uses notes from the one harmonic series all we can say with certainty about the instrument is that the player didn't use any valves! We might guess that they had none, but we don't know – we would only know for sure the other way round, that is, if they'd played some other notes between all those Cs Es and Gs then we could say yes they had valves, but on this recording we don't know whether they had none or just didn't press them down! The Royal Marines at the Cenotaph have real bugles but plenty of us amateurs who sound Last Post around 11 November do it on our trumpets or cornets because they are better than our bugles, or we don't have a bugle at all.

But it's not atonal or discordant or anything: it is a real little call or fanfare on the natural harmonics. The lowest note, the written middle C in my transcription, is pretty sharp so it does give it a slightly dodgy feel but I'd still say this is a minor musical accident.

The tube to play these notes needs to be about 1.3m long in total. Standard(ish) trumpets don't look that long but they are folded with two bends, and cornets which play the same pitches are folded even more so they are shorter overall. But they are all getting on for 1.46 m of basic tube length.

Aha! you cry, why have you swapped from 1.3 to 1.46 m halfway through that paragraph? Well this is interesting (or it is if you are me) as it goes to the pitch of the tune. My figure of 1.46 is the length of almost every trumpet and cornet in this country because they are nearly all built in B-flat. (Please ask if I need to explain this.) But your scrap merchant is playing in C ... well, they are playing in a rather flat C (with one alarmingly sharp note, please see above) but I don't think it is quite flat enough to be in B-natural, which was my first thought. What this means is that, assuming the sample is at its original pitch, it's vanishingly unlikely that the scrap merchant just grabbed some dumped instrument in a pile of scrap and just blew it (I'm thinking dustbin wagons with pandas on the front, work with me here) because it would be a semitone lower. You can't get up to that pitch on most scrapped instruments. Semi-toy instruments like this tend not to be tunable (aaargh) but they are around B flat or like the ones I have they've crept (cheapskates!) up to B-natural. I could not get sharp enough on my one of those to play the Scrap Iron tune. (NB for completeness: this is a much more decent plastic instrument and less of a toy but also more properly in B-flat. It won't make anywhere near C either.)

So it is either a C trumpet or it is a piece of tube that happens to be around 1.3 m long. Which? Dunno ... the sample is too short and is quite a basic recording so we can't tell that much by the tone: it could, quite surprisingly (because of their relative rarity in this country) be a real C trumpet but it is maybe more likely that it is just a bit of tubing of around that length. Everyone who has done education work has done the thing of showing the kids a bit of hose, maybe a funnel in the end to mimic a bell, and usually a real brass instrument mouthpiece in the other. You can play quite a lot on this setup ... and if the tube is long enough you can play more-proper tunes higher up in the series – 8th to 16th harmonics and you have a major scale and hello Bach, hello Handel.

As Colin says it might well be a real mouthpiece and that would help get it sounding nicer and more controlled. But they might just be lucky! You can sometimes get away with it if the bore at the mouth end is something you can work with.

Is it a real brass player? Again, we don't know – if they are it's all a lot easier but actually a lucky mucker-arounder might get this just fine. I am not sure if they could reproduce it reliably for a recording but maybe, yes! Many people can get a brass instrument buzz going quite well so maybe they just discovered they could play it and there's your service announcement. That held last note is pretty good, with quite nice control. It's not a pro player but it's a good enough shot. (See also: my entire career ...)

I don't think that the tune is derived from anything existing but I do have a lot of short (army) bugle calls on recordings so I will let you know if I find it ... it would be most amusing if it were a regimental call from the REME or someone!

I have waffled on seriously more than enough but it's an interesting topic and a nice little fanfare. I hope this is useful (whilst fearing it is not!) and if you need more information, or just for me to waffle on more without a clue, just yell!

Disclaimer: there are a load of oversimplifications and generalizations and things that are sorta kinda true in what I have written which will drive experts and academics mad. I'm like soz man ... big topic, small brain, doing my best ...

Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: That's, er, astonishing. And very interesting. Thank you. Would you like to add a summary to the description of the original file? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
You're very very welcome. It was fun / good for me to have to think about it. I'll have a bash at the file description if/when I get round to it ... please revert me if I make a pig's ear out of it! Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:58, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Update: OK I have had a bash ... cheers DBaK (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
@DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: That's great, thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:23, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
V v welcome. Thank you for capturing the recording and asking the question! DBaK (talk) 09:37, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 60

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
  • Google Scholar integration
  • How to track partner suggestions

Read the full newsletter

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Women in Red February 2024

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298


Online events:

Announcement

  • Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event.

Tip of the month:

  • AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library.

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk 20:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

CEE Newsletter - January 2024 Issue Now Available!

Good evening,

We're excited to announce the release of the January 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! This edition is filled with captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.

In This Issue:

  • CEE Hub and WMF Updates: Explore the latest from the Wikimedia Foundation with the Talking 2024 series and insights into the impacts on children participating in Wikimedia projects. Additionally, discover CEE Hub's plans for 2024 as outlined in the recently approved grant proposal named Stronger CEE Hub
  • Highlights from CEE Communities: From the Georgian Wikipedia's 20th birthday celebration to the Wiki Loves EuroPride event in Albania, delve into the vibrant activities of our diverse communities. Journey through time with the celebration of Czech Wikipedia's founder and the resilience of Ukrainian Wikipedia editors. Explore the outcomes of Wiki Loves Earth 2023 and Wikimedia Czech Republic's presence at the Archives, Libraries, Museums in the Digital World 2023 conference.
  • Community Initiatives and Beyond: Read about the unique efforts of the CEE Youth Group and the unification of GLAM Macedonia and Shared Knowledge into Wikimedia MKD.
  • Looking Ahead: Anticipate the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia, and gain insights from Marija Mihajlova's report on the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023.

You can read the full newsletter here. We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading and here's to another year of Wikimedia excellence in the CEE region!

Best regards,

Jan Beránek
Editor-in-chief
Wikimedia CEE Newsletter

15:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #613

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

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
  • New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
  • Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
  • mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
  • IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
    • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)


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.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-05

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

  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [15]
  • There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [16][17]
  • On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]
  • Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [19]

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Steven Tananbaum

Hi Andy, I am working on updates for art collector and hedge fund manager Steven Tananbaum. Since you are a member of WikiProject Museums and WikiProject Biography, I thought you may be interested in reviewing my suggestions on Tananbaum's talk page. Appreciate your feedback and assistance. Thanks, Alexandra at L Strategies (talk) 19:46, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

January music

story · music · places

Thank you for improving articles in January! I remember Ewa Podleś on the Main page, and have - believe it or not - two musical DYK. Shalom chaverim. On vacation, with something for your sweet tooth --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:34, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Today: the performance of Anna Nekhames --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Today a friend's birthday, with related music and a few new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:14, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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