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Wikidata weekly summary #530

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
    • ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
    • ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
  • New request for comments:
    • Documented and featured SPARQL queries

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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.
    • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
    • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • The Lay of the Land: Data Visualizations of the Language Data and Domains of Wikidata (Q113181609)
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
    • Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
  • Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's harvest_template.py script.
  • Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
  • OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
    • External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
    • An example of finding problematic references
    • Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
    • People born on rivers (source)
    • Humans with "native language" "German"

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
  • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
  • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
  • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
  • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:24, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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

• The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [1]

Problems

• Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [3]
• Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [4]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2022

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

• News and notes: Information considered harmful

• In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

• Community view: Youth culture and notability

• Opinion: Criminals among us

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

• Essay: How to research an image

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

• Gallery: A backstage pass

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Wikidata weekly summary #531

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
    • EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
    • Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
    • Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
    • Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
    • Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
    • Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
    • Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
    • This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
    • Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
    • Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
  • Videos
    • The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
    • Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
    • WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
    • External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
    • External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
  • Query examples:
    • Grammatical features used on forms of French lexemes (source)
    • Most notable people (by sitelinks) (source)
    • List of draughts (source)
    • Map of NZ graduates based on coordinates of employer (source)

• Development
  • [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
  • REST API:
    • You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
    • We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
  • Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Remove the billionaire (Q1062083) value for property . See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:43, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

• Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

• This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

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

Administrator changes

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Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Wikidata weekly summary #532

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
    • Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
    • William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
    • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
  • Past
    • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Books
    • Wikidata for Scholarly Communication Librarianship
  • Blogs
    • Most notable person, everywhere in the world
    • Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
    • Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
    • Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
    • Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
  • Papers
    • Embracing Wikidata: How to Increase Discoverability for Musicians Online - Tweet
  • Videos
    • New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
    • Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
    • Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Presentations:
    • KB Wikibase.cloud Unboxing Experience, Netherlands Wikibase Knowlegde Group

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
    • External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
    • External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
    • Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
    • Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
    • Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
    • Places named after Lenin (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
    • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
  • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
  • REST API:
    • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
    • Looking into feedback from first testing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

• GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [5]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue VII, July 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Provinces: our main characters Brazil report: Brazil holds its National Wiki Conference, and many GLAM partners join Colombia report: A very busy July for Colombian libraries / Un Julio bastante movido para las bibliotecas colombianas France report: Wikimedian in residence in Clermont-Ferrand New Zealand report: News from Auckland Museum, the West Coast, and New Zealand's thesis repositories Poland report: Edit-a-thon in the National Museum in Cracow, GLAM editing contest on the collection of artworks Portugal report: Portugal’s first GLAM-Wiki open access museum project is launched!! Serbia report: Presentation of GLAM activities at Edu Wiki Camp UK report: Khalili Collections USA report: GLAM for the Masses AvoinGLAM report: Wikimania Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikimania activities WMF GLAM report: What next for 1Lib1Ref? Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #533

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. 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
  • Ongoing:
    • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Turns out most famous people aren’t that famous at all
    • An introduction to Wikidata: How worlds of Wikimedia link
  • Papers
    • An Analysis of Content Gaps versus User Needs in the Wikidata Knowledge Graph
    • The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement
  • Videos
    • Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata
      • Wikimania 2022 - 10 Years of Wikidata - Overtime Discussion
      • Wikimania Hackathon: Let us play with PubMed to enrich Wikidata with medical information
      • When Quechua meets Wikibase - QICHWABASE
    • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
    • Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
    • Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
    • Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
    • Wikidata tutorials:
      • Add the official street address of an institution
      • Add visitor numbers to an institution
    • Wikidata tutorials (in French):
      • Adding an institution's official website
      • Create a Wikimedia Account
      • Adding a webpage

• Tool of the week
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
  • Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
    • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
    • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
    • Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
    • Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
    • Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
    • Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
    • Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
    • Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
    • Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet

• Development
  • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
  • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
  • REST API:
    • Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
    • Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:45, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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

• The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [6][7][8]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

NY Times obit feed

Hello, I noticed that your NY Times obit feed hasn’t updated in a few days. It has been a great tool for me. I regularly make articles for red linked individuals on it. Thriley (talk) 13:18, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@Thriley: Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it. Good to hear that it's being used! :-) There's also User:Mike Peel/Guardian obits in case that's useful. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:48, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@Thriley: All fixed, it was struggling with the 'novalue' for birth date at Kamoya Kimeu (Q1395025). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:59, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #534

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Estopedist1 (successful)
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Gender neutral labels for occupations and positions in French
    • Alternate disclosure policy

• Events
  • Past events:
    • Clutch sprint August 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Automatic word relatedness evaluation
  • Videos
    • Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
    • Highlights from Wikimania 2022
      • Ninai-Udiron: Using Wikidata Items and Lexemes for Abstract Wikipedia-Like Text Generation By Mahir Morshed
      • Partner Up for Wikidata!
      • Wikidata for everyone: a methodology to teach different communities
      • Wikifunctions: A new Wikimedia project
  • Tutorial
    • Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks

• Tool of the week
  • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
  • Template:Documented queries skeleton
  • Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
  • OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
    • External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
    • External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
  • Query examples:
    • Longest tram line in the world with 68 stops Map of Coast Tram (Q1510414)¹
    • Most frequent .uk domains for P973 "described at URL" (source)
    • Online accounts used by people that were born in People's Republic of China (Source)
    • Journals with the most retractions (source)

• Development
  • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
  • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
  • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:39, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

• Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [9][10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [11]

Future changes

• The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [12]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

File:Gordon Parry film director (2a).jpg

Hi Mike. I hope this finds you well. Please could you assist me with an image deletion?

(1) I have accidentally uploaded a too-large image to the above non-free image file. The first upload needs to be deleted (the second upload in the file is OK). Please delete that first image for me?

(2) I have never quite discovered the exact max permissible size for a non-free thumbnail image (so I just look at it and guess). Please could you kindly tell me what is the max permissible size?

Thank you. Storye book (talk) 13:57, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

@Storye book: The guidance is at Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Image_resolution - around 100,000 pixels is normally OK. So here, 212*232 = 49,184 is fine, while 428*464 = 198,592 is a bit too much. I've deleted the old version now. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Fantastic, that's a great help. Thank you. And thank you for deleting the oversized one. Storye book (talk) 08:36, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:32, 26 August 2022 (UTC)