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Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (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.
    • Ongoing
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

beneficial owner

personal experence Flacktam69 (talk) 19:06, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

@Flacktam69, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 19:46, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Question from Shatu buba (16:14, 27 December 2022)

Hello, You have been assigned to me as a mentor and I look forward to learning from you. Regards! --Shatu buba (talk) 16:14, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

@Shatu buba, happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 19:47, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Template looping

Hey! Just so you're aware, User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat/testcase was producing a template loop error. After some initial looking through, it seems the issue is probably to do with {{#invoke:Page|getContent}} in User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat (preprocessing it means it preprocess the call to itself, which will loop). I've implemented a temporary solution (noinclude tags), but if I may ask, what exactly is the goal with the template? The implementation seems interesting, but I can't exactly figure out what the intended output is. Aidan9382 (talk) 08:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

@Aidan9382, to help with automatic rcategorisation, and avoid duplicate rcats, as described at Template talk:Redirect category shell. I plan to add rcats automatically through a template, then get the page content and remove the automatic rcat template, and then expand the page content, to work around this. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:43, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Amadea (yacht)

Hello, Qwerfjkl. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Amadea".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:15, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 January 2023

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Speedy deletion nomination of Akburç (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Akburç (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
  • disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Qwerfjkl!

Happy New Year!

Qwerfjkl,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 03:45, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #553

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (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.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology
  • Tool of the week
    • OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
  • Development
    • The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

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.

"Knook (chess)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Knook (chess) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 4 § Knook (chess) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Randi Moth (talk) 18:01, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from ArpeggioKazuya (14:30, 4 January 2023)

Hi Qwerfjkl!

I was copy editing the below article and have a question. The website/magazine highlighted in the article no longer seems to be available. It's website no longer seems to exist. How are we to handle these situations?

Thank you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPO:) --ArpeggioKazuya (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

@ArpeggioKazuya, SPO is a disambiguation page, and doesn't have any external links, so I presume you meant another page. You can try this tool to fix dead links. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Decline/reject

Saw your note, saw you fixed it. The AFC submission template was broken already because the creator managed to change enough values to reset it to pending while still keeping the old decliner and rejection. I suspect this is what caused your odd experience. Primefac (talk) 21:12, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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

Administrator changes

added
readded Stephen
removed

Interface administrator changes

removed Nihiltres

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
  • Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Relisting more than twice

While I'd like to thank you for closing so many CfD, WP:RELIST says, in general, debates should not be relisted more than twice. In particular, today we had Category:English-language education, where there was 1 implied keep and 2 explicit keeps. That's usually enough to keep, as there was no support to delete.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:21, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

@William Allen Simpson, there was consensus to keep that category, but Category:Language education by language was also discussed, so I tagged that category. This means that the discussion should not be closed for 7 more days, so I relisted the discussion. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:34, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Please update the relist tag with that explanation, as prescribed in WP:RELIST. (It was not obvious.) Aha, you did! Thanks!
William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from ToniToneLo (17:53, 6 January 2023)

What is your human age? --ToniToneLo (talk) 17:53, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 1983 heat wave (disambiguation)

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

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A tag has been placed on 1983 heat wave (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
  • disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:25, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

@Shhhnotsoloud, please don't bother notifying me of these, I've made thousands and have them all in my watchlist. Thanks! — Qwerfjkltalk 09:35, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
@Qwerfjkl: OK thanks. I won't bother you again. They're created automatically by Twinkle and I've been picked up by an admin in the past for not using them. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:39, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for doing that tedious and repetitive task for me. I am really glad it's done now. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #554

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
      • RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
      • The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (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.
      • About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools
  • Tool of the week
    • Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.
  • Development
    • REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
    • Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
    • Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
    • Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
    • Query Service:
      • Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
      • Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
      • Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
      • The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
    • Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
    • mul language code:
      • Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
      • Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
    • Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

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: 2023-02

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

  • You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
  • Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
  • You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
  • A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
  • Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
  • You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
Thank you for participating in Articles for Creation's January 2023 Backlog Drive! You reviewed 52 drafts, for a total of 53 points. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 00:41, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2023

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Question from Mdparlette (10:12, 16 January 2023)

Want to change my username --Mdparlette (talk) 10:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

@Mdparlette, I would recommend just creating a new account, as you have only made one edit with this account. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:17, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #555

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
    • Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
    • REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
    • Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
    • Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
    • Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

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: 2023-03

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

Problems

  • The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
  • Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
  • On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from Walker2023 (05:40, 17 January 2023)

Hello are you live? --Walker2023 (talk) 05:40, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

@Walker2023, I'm sorry, what is your question? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

hasRcat/testcase

Hello! Would you mind removing the invalid rcats on User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/hasRcat/testcase to prevent it being categorized in Category:Pages with incorrectly transcluded templates? I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:32, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

@Eejit43,  Done— Qwerfjkltalk 16:56, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from Dynamitesole3 (08:09, 19 January 2023)

Hi. i am trying to learn how to write an extensive article about my favourite actor who isn't on wikipedia. --Dynamitesole3 (talk) 08:09, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

@Dynamitesole3, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 16:56, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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