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Re: [1] Why is it necessary to manual import short descriptions from WikiData? I mean, can't this be done automatically? With say, a template like {{Short description}}Hawkeye7(discuss)05:55, 15 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-15T05:55:00.000Z","author":"Hawkeye7","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Hawkeye7-2018-10-15T05:55:00.000Z-Short_description","replies":["c-Mike_Peel-2018-10-15T06:26:00.000Z-Hawkeye7-2018-10-15T05:55:00.000Z"]}}-->
@Hawkeye7: enwp is in the process of forking short descriptions from wikidata. It's completely pointless and a waste of time. For some of the background, see Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata/2018_State_of_affairs#Short_descriptions and links therein. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:26, 15 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-15T06:26:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2018-10-15T06:26:00.000Z-Hawkeye7-2018-10-15T05:55:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing!KadaneBot (talk) 03:39, 16 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-16T03:39:00.000Z","author":"KadaneBot","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-KadaneBot-2018-10-16T03:39:00.000Z-Unanswered_Peer_Review_Requests","replies":[]}}-->
A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you
Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.
Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.
Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night
It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.
And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.
Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.
Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
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Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
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Thanks @Certes:. @RexxS:, would this work for WikidataIB as well? It's a temporary hack solution with no guarantees that it will work in the long-run, though (but then, that's normal around here ;-) ). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-06T22:01:00.000Z","author":"Mike Peel","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Mike_Peel-2018-11-06T22:01:00.000Z-Certes-2018-11-04T20:29:00.000Z","replies":["c-Certes-2018-11-06T22:40:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2018-11-06T22:01:00.000Z"]}}-->
As WikidataIB does most of its work in Lua, it couldn't call the template directly. Module:Linkless (recently deleted as unused) provided a Lua entry point with the usual argument parsing etc. but was essentially the one-liner
As you say, this is a hack, but it does provide a single place to install a proper implementation later. Certes (talk) 22:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-06T22:40:00.000Z","author":"Certes","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Certes-2018-11-06T22:40:00.000Z-Mike_Peel-2018-11-06T22:01:00.000Z","replies":["c-RexxS-2018-11-06T22:47:00.000Z-Certes-2018-11-06T22:40:00.000Z"]}}-->
WikidataIB hasn't made links in Special:WhatLinksHere for some time now. The only info we need is whether the Wikidata label corresponds to a redirect or not and the redirectTarget property doesn't create a link. It looks like {{PROTECTIONEXPIRY:edit|Pagetitle}} would be useful for testing whether a page title exists, if we needed that, although it is an expensive call. --RexxS (talk) 22:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-06T22:47:00.000Z","author":"RexxS","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-RexxS-2018-11-06T22:47:00.000Z-Certes-2018-11-06T22:40:00.000Z","replies":["c-Certes-2018-11-07T01:02:00.000Z-RexxS-2018-11-06T22:47:00.000Z"]}}-->
Yes, redirectTarget records a transclusion rather than a link (which makes me wonder why anyone uses the expensive isRedirect rather than treating redirectTarget as a boolean). Certes (talk) 01:02, 7 November 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-11-07T01:02:00.000Z","author":"Certes","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Certes-2018-11-07T01:02:00.000Z-RexxS-2018-11-06T22:47:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
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