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Wikidata weekly summary #543

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

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Tech News: 2022-43

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 have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
  • On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

  • Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]
  • Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [3][4][5]
  • Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

"Triple Jeopardy!" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Triple Jeopardy! and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 25#Triple Jeopardy! until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 02:25, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Category:Parishes of Europe / America

Hi, You have closed this proposal. Does the decision preclude me from creating an new category call Category:Civil parishes in Europe? Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:48, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

@Laurel Lodged, wouldn't that fall under WP:SHAREDNAME? — Qwerfjkltalk 10:52, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
Not if I also created Category:Church parishes in Europe. Both could then have the same parent ( Category:Parishes of Europe ) which would become a container category with only two members. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:57, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
@Laurel Lodged, I would suggest having another CfD discussion about it, given the previous discussion, which had mixed views. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
OK. This might be a first at WP:CFD - "permisson to create a new category please". BTW, love your personal categories. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:03, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

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CFD categories

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

I kept seeing Category:17th-century British literature and Category:Gladiators (UK TV series) on the nightly Empty Categories list and I finally looked at them again tonight. I found you had closed the CFDs that involved these categories yesterday. Is there a reason that you didn't tag these categories for deletion after you closed the CFDs? They were already emptied so they didn't require any removal of pages/categories by a bot.

You and Marco use to do this when you were done closing CFDs but for some reason, over the past month or so, I never see categories deleted through CFDs come up as uncontroversial deletions, CSD G6, any more. Was there some problem with how you were handling these closures? Because I thought that it was a very efficient system. Liz Read! Talk! 01:17, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz, I've switched to listing these at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working now, regardless of how much work needs to be done, so that they can be processed by the WP:CFD/W bot. They tend to get added to the bot page by an admin within a week.
It looks like I forgot to list Category:17th-century British literature, however.
I used to manually carry out the outcome of every CfD discussion, but it took far too much time, and there are still a severe shortage of closers at CfD. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:30, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Implementation of rename for Category:Volcanoes of the New Zealand seabed

Hi. The CFD for Category:Volcanoes of the New Zealand seabed was closed as rename several days ago. I'm not sure of the process from here. How/when does it get implemented? Is it in progress, or is there a step that has been delayed, or is someone else responsible? Sorry for not being familiar with the process. Thanks. Nurg (talk) 04:17, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

@Nurg, I've listed it at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working. An admin will move it to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working sometime. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:15, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. Nurg (talk) 11:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #544

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

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: 2022-44

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

  • When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [7]
  • In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [8]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
  • The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [9]
  • It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [10]
  • It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [11]
  • It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

  • added
  • readded
  • removed

Interface administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Renaming discussion was shallow to coin a pun

Please see Category talk:Seamounts of New Zealand ChaseKiwi (talk) 21:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Rag Shop

Is Rag Shop notable enough to be in the list of defunct retailers of the United States? 2601:584:101:80B0:D7A:766A:BB3E:869E (talk) 18:37, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

2601:584:101:80B0:D7A:766A:BB3E:869E, based on Talk:List of defunct retailers of the United States § Inclusion criteria, if there are reliable sources noting it, it can stay; otherwise, you can be bold and remove it. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:15, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
Based on the fact that there's no article for it, it can probably go, as per the discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 22:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Rathfelder

As Bigwig7 turns out to be Rathfelder, would this affect your closure of August_15#Category:Judges_educated_at_Eton_College? Oculi (talk) 01:47, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

@Oculi, not really. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:33, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
Fair enough; just asking. Oculi (talk) 11:18, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #545

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 Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
      • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
      • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
      • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
    • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
    • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
    • REST API:
      • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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: 2022-45

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

Problems

  • Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Question from Jasmeet2001 (11:15, 9 November 2022)

How can i get my profile url? --Jasmeet2001 (talk) 11:15, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@Jasmeet2001, please can you clarify what you're trying to do. What is your 'profile'? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:05, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

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Category:Quaternary taxonomic families

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

This empty category is tagged with a CFD tag that makes it appear to be part of a CFD discussion you closed but I don't see this category in the bundled list. Do you have any ideas of what's going on here? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 01:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz, looks like Hemiauchenia didn't add this to the list after tagging it for discussion, presumably by mistake. I assume it only contained subcats that were deleted due to that discussion, so you can probably just delete it. — Qwerfjkltalk 01:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Yeah, this an oversight on my part. Apologies. Hemiauchenia (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

RE ULSS

Yes, it's not unambiguous as a reference to the unduly lenient sentence scheme. But it's also presently a redlink, so it's not helping anyone resolve what it means in any context at all. If someone comes along and writes articles for those other uses (or expands articles, or realises that existing articles already cover those other uses, etc), they can turn the redirect into a disambig as and when; in the meantime, the redirect would be serving a useful purpose to readers. Wikipedia's malleable and we don't need to get it absolutely perfect the first time; we can fix things up and improve them, and make incremental changes that are better than nothing. So, will you please create the redirect, as suggested, so that readers can get some value, even if it's not the absolutely platonic perfect result that an encyclopaedia with infinite resources would have? 80.7.186.76 (talk) 15:34, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

80.7.186.76, first of all, thanks a lot for your redirect work.
However, per WP:REDLINK, it's better to keep ULSS as a redlink. Readers can use the search bar for this. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Search would be useless in this case, as the acronym isn't used in the article (I wrote it talking about 'the scheme'). I also don't see where WP:REDLINK covers this situation - could you please quote the part that you find relevant? 80.7.186.76 (talk) 16:49, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
80.7.186.76, the solution is then to add the acronym to that article.
It seems I was mistaken about REDLINK; ignore that. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:58, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm not going to add it to the article because there's nothing it adds to the article qua article, and adding it just so that it shows up when people try looking for 'ULSS' is very silly when there's the option of just creating a redirect. But a disambig is actually natural here because the extant on-wiki targets are unduly lenient sentence scheme, Rzhevka Airport and Ultra-large-scale systems and a cross-wiki link to wikt:ULSS; as you noted originally, it's an ambiguous initialism. Would you create that, please? As a lowly IP, I can't do it myself. 80.7.186.76 (talk) 17:11, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
80.7.186.76, If you create a draft I can move it to mainspace for you. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:32, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #546

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 November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
      • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
    • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
      • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
    • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
    • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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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