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Wikidata weekly summary #380

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

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science (Q27726596) by Lars Willighagen (Q45907528)
  • A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled) - Marçal Mora-Cantallops et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
  • Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
  • Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories") - Tomás Saorín et al.; text in Spanish

• Tool of the week
  • In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
  • Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase have been published - comments welcome on the talk page
  • Follow-up from Wikimania: you can now give input about the language barrier on Wikidata and federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata
  • New tool: a Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data by MichaelSchoenitzer
  • There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
  • soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
  • Several job offers related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
    • Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
    • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: access restriction status, in defining formula
    • External identifiers: RPGGeek ID, DIBAVOD ID, Fundación Goya en Aragón ID, AccuRadio artist ID, eSTUDÁNKY ID, LongSwimsDB ID, WTA trail ID, Scribd Item ID, Dove.org work ID, Chinese Engineering Expert Tank ID, Open Science Framework ID, SCTrails trail ID, Laws & Regulations Database of the Republic of China ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mediawiki Wiki, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, scope and content, Number of nodes, Performance, use restriction status, Significant number, FCC Product Code, Hardware Version Identification Number, amount cataloged, number of decimal digits, Gregorian calendar, food energy, pronunciation
    • External identifiers: YouTube Music channel ID 2, Pandora artist ID 2, The Independent topic ID 2, NÖ Proposal ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, ScienceOpen author ID, ScienceOpen publication ID, Newspapers.com ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, WGA writer ID, WGA project ID, FCC Grantee Code, Spectrum Management System Company Number, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Prime Pages ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Peakbagger climber ID, Naver Music artist ID, Naver Music album ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, Slovo i Dilo person ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, FNL player ID, Peakbagger key col ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Public art in London by female artists
    • People used as examples in Wikidata properties (source)
    • Closest capitals of non bordering countries (<200 km) (source)
    • Hillforts mapped with their heritage designation/protection status
    • YouTubers without a YouTube channel
    • Racing automobile drivers who died in a car crash (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • Public library branch in The Netherlands
  • Newest database reports: papers about Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adjust label of save button of the Entity Schema and add accesskey for easier editing editor (phab:T230398)
  • Get Grafana Datamodel References dashboard back up and running (phab:T214894)
  • Fix an issue in EntitySchema tests that caused some CI failures (phab:T231065)
  • Localize Wikibase API help links (phab:T231269)
  • Support tags parameter on Wikibase APIs that edit entities (phab:T229917)
  • Add in Wikidata support for sitelinks to https://nap.wikisource.org (phab:T212886)
  • Reading property terms from new store in production now (phab:T225053)
  • Adding WDQS lag to maxlag info, to avoid stress on WDQS machines (phab:T221774)
  • Implementing the fallback version of the new better edit summary messages on items through API (phab:T224010)
  • Fixing the issue of an invisible quality constrain violation indicator (phab:T227866)
  • Switching item terms to migration stage of writing to both wb_terms and the new store (phab:T225055)
  • Preparing to run migration of item terms (phab:T219123)
  • Allowing to access Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Hiding non-supported languages in old termbox (phab:T227083)
  • Work on a new solution to move "Data item" link outside of sidebar toolbox avoiding the cache issues (phab:T66315)
  • Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the current Wikidata value in the edit modal (phab:T226997)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:03, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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 the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [2]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [3]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [5]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [6]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [7]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [8]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [9]

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This Month in Education: August 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 8 • August 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Summer WikiCamp for secondary school students 2019 in Armenia Together, we can create an environment that promotes Quality Education International Days and pop culture motivate primary and secondary education students to write on Wikipedia and Wikidata Quality learning and recruiting students at Edu Wiki camp We spend such wonderful days in WikiCamps that noone wants to return home

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Wikidata weekly summary #381

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: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
  • Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton

• Tool of the week
  • moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
  • The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
  • Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762)
  • Recent tool: @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
  • New game: Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: mobile formatter URL, degree of difficulty, color produced, computer performance, use restriction status, FCC Product Code, Itch.io ID, Gregorian calendar start date
    • External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges, Pilze Deutschland ID, Moose Deutschland ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID, Toons Mag ID, Newspapers.com ID, Transporter Classification Database ID, ESPN.com College Football Player ID, Prime Pages ID, FCC Grantee Code, FNL player ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID, Hiking Project area ID, Hiking Project site ID, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number, Naver Music album ID, Naver Music artist ID, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech, Pandora artist ID, Peakbagger climber ID, Peakbagger key col ID, playmarkerstats.com team ID, Radio Equipment List Certification Number, Slovo i Dilo person ID, Spectrum Management System Company Number, The Independent topic ID, WGA project ID, WGA writer ID, WorldFootball.net team ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, CPUID, L-number, Arnet Miner publication ID, NLP ID (record)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, dénivelé cumulé positif, Supports qualifier, climbing route, madhhab, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID
    • External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID, Al-Jazeera Topic ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, SNK ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, VAT identification number, TOP500 System ID, ACUF unique ID (UFI), Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier, Downdetector ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Behind the voice Actors short ID, Rate Your Music label ID, Labelcode, Maine Trail Finder ID, Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, WeChat ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives | (Histropedia timeline)
    • Most common properties on Senses (source)
    • Place of birth of actors in The Matrix (source)
    • Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code (source)

• Development
  • Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder (phab:T230120)
  • New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
  • Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866)
  • Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462)
  • Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745)
  • Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:50, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2019

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VIII, August 2019 Headlines Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategic salon around GLAM perspectives Finland report: Continuing our work with the Saami communities Indonesia report: Digitization of banknotes and introduction to structured data on Commons (continued) Netherlands report: Wikidata map making workshop Norway report: Women in Red: collaboration with The National Library in Norway and Oslo Metropolitan University Sweden report: GLAM communities of practice; Problematic data UK report: New and old collaborations USA report: Wikimania 2019 Special story: Wikimania GLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Recent presentations, workshops and blog posts Wikidata report: Work for us, or just tell us what you think of us WMF GLAM report: Updates on OpenGLAM Calendar: September'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.

About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 07:20, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #382

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

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
  • Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
  • Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
  • Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen et al.

• Tool of the week
  • Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
    • External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
    • External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
    • Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
    • same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
    • Twins with different places of birth (source)
    • Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
    • Libraries in Austria (source)
  • Schema examples:
    • space probe
    • Tsunami
  • Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

• Development
  • Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
  • Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
  • Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
  • Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:25, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #383

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata as a hub for the Linked Data cloud - tutorial (full day) at Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2019 conference, Seoul, on September 25.
  • Past: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
  • Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)

• Tool of the week
  • Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Please help to build a basic data model for describing Wikimedia Commons file with structured data! Your help is welcome to solve different modeling challenges, including how to model dates, sources and authors. You can also look at current Wikimedia Commons infobox templates and discuss how the information in wikitext can be translated to structured data.
  • Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
  • Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
  • WikidataCon Award 2019: you can nominate your favorite Wikidata or Wikibase project or tool! 🏆 Participation open until October 7th
  • Wikidata passed 8B triples on the 19th September (grafana)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IP Code, number of decimal digits, OFLC classification, amount cataloged, Hardware Version Identification Number
    • External identifiers: Aozora Bunko author ID, Aozora Bunko work ID, Rate Your Music label ID, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID, iHeartRadio artist ID, Behind The Voice Actors short ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, Labelcode, Trail Finder ID, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier (MRGID), Archnet site ID, iHeartRadio podcast ID, DANE code, MobyGames genre ID, ICD-11 ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Vudu video ID, Mixer game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Peer review location, fineness, regnal ordinal, Wikinews coverage, educational stage, faculty, Kivid.info ID, Fossiilid.info ID, CITES Appendix, Content descriptor
    • External identifiers: Wi-Fi Certification ID, GCF Reference, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power ID, IGNrando ID, ISSN-L, Skiddle artist ID, Juno Download album ID, See Tickets artist ID, Ticketmaster artist ID
  • Query examples:
    • Library systems in California
    • Waterfalls without a drainage basin yet
    • Works of art depicting kisses (source)
    • Longest English word without a repeated letter (source)
    • Longest alphabetically sorted words in English (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Q68235346

• Development
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
  • More work on setting up the technical background to work on tainted references
  • More work on reducing the resources needed to load pages
  • Create a dependency graph of existing RessourceLoader modules (phab:T232728)

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Where do we go from here?

• Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

• In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

• Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

• News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

• Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

• Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 11:08, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #384

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Catherine Laurence

• Events
  • Past: Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
  • Upcoming: WikiCon, meeting of the German speaking Community from 4th to 6th of October 2019 in Wuppertal (Germany)
  • Upcoming: #5 Wikidata tea party/第5回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 18 Oct 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Training in Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon in Zurich on the weekend of November 23-24.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Scottish witches in the press and on TV
  • Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
  • Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
  • GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske

• Tool of the week
  • This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
  • Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
  • You can nominate your favourite Wikidata and Wikibase projects for the WikidataCon Award until October 7th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: regnal ordinal, peer review URL
    • External identifiers: GCF Reference, Wi-Fi Certification ID, Rivals.com ID, sixpackfilmdata film ID, sixpackfilmdata person ID, Dirección General de Bibliotecas ID, Elitefootball player ID, The Wind Power farm ID, IGNrando' ID, Fossiilid.info ID, Kivid.info ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: bus, mwnf, Maximum number of playable characters, FIDAL team ID, candidate name string, IP range start, code (image), name in hiero markup, disputed by, name (image), style of karate
    • External identifiers: NTS Radio artist ID, Gazetteer for Scotland ID, Gazetteer for Scotland person ID, FootballFacts.ru team ID, FootballDatabase.eu team ID, GENUKI ID, DC Books author ID, LaPreferente.com player ID, Ukrainian Premier League player ID, UEFA team ID, UEFA coach ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, FAIMER school ID, China Martyrs ID, JournalBase ID, PCEngine Catalog Project ID, PubPeer article ID, memoriademadrid publication ID, doujinshi.org author ID, Beatport label ID, Knesset Law Id, caves.4at.info ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Amazon Music album ID 2, Qobuz album ID, Plus Music album ID, eska.pl release ID, iHeartRadio album ID, Three Decks people ID, Diccionari de la Literatura Catalana ID, Empik e-book or album ID, identificador GENavarra, Oricon News artist ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, Turkish Football Federation Team ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Fortuna liga player ID
  • Deleted properties: P5130 (island of location)
  • Query examples:
    • Civil parishes of Scotland, revealed through their listed buildings (source)
    • Scottish civil parishes by county and present-day council area (source)
    • Federated SPARQL query from the Swedish National Archive TORA project to Wikidata
    • Librairies in Africa (source)
    • Most recently dissolved enterprises that were over 200 years old (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Red pandas

• Development
  • More work done on removing some resource loader modules in order to speed up the load of pages
  • Wikidata Bridge: add an edit tag parameter when saving (phab:T227003)
  • Adapt buttons' texts to UI language (phab:T228259)
  • research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
  • More preparation work for improving references

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
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • 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 · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40

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

• Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [11]

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16:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)