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Wikidata weekly summary #414

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata

• Events
  • Competition for the International Museum Day is about improving data about museums in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland on Wikidata, from 3 May 2020 to 18 May 2020, more information on Museum Day 2020/Wikidata Competition
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Alex Jung on Wikidata and Wikipedia Infoboxes, 05 May. Agenda
  • Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday May 5 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing: YouTube
  • Art+Feminism Office Hours: Introduction to Editing Wikidata: YouTube
  • Webinar on why and how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata? (in French): YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • MachtSinn, a tool that allows you to easily add Senses to Lexemes, has lately been improved significantly
  • 33,000 values of British Museum person or institution ID (d:Property:P1711) now have a useful target again. After their being mostly inoperative for several years, the new British Museum website now has information pages matching these values, with links to related objects. (Example). To work around bug T112081, a script by Andrew Gray is going through the items making null edits to update the relevant URLs.
  • Outdated copy of wb_terms has been dropped on April 29th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: COVIDWHO ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Sicilian Regional Assembly numeric ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Republic of Korea Parliamentarian Society ID, NKAA ID, MémorialGenWeb monument ID, History Colorado ID, SciProfiles ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, CONI honoured ID, DGHS facility code, Diels-Kranz ID, DPVweb ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID, FactGrid item ID, Heritage Gateway ID, RPPS ID, Priset of Archidiecezja Gdańska ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID, Extratime.ie player ID, Slovak Registration ID, Infames Romani ID, Itch.io developer profile, Oregon Historic Sites Database ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Ex-libris, tabular case data, Geneanet URL(s), transitivity, Compatible with
    • External identifiers: DPE school code, identifiant Prix de Lausanne, CDAPNC author ID, identificativo Giunta regionale della Sicilia, Goodreads work ID, Wikilengua, BeWeb cultural institution ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, Group Properties wiki ID, House Divided ID, Southwest Harbor Public Library item, Gitabitan.net ID, The Conversation author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (Source)
    • Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (Source)
    • Recipes that include garlic (Source)
    • Images of postcards from the catalog of the Regional bibliography of Saxony (Source)
  • French municipalities which have the property "archived by" (P485) for the departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône (Source)
    • Municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants in the Basque Country (Source)
    • People born in Wales who became head of government in Wales or overseas (Source)
    • Average stardate of Star Trek episodes (Source)
    • Municipalities in mainland France with more than 50,000 inhabitants (Source)
    • Graph showing direct ancestral lines linking Boris Johnson and George I, and Jesus and Abraham (Source)
    • Photos by Carlton Watkins with their collection (Source)
    • Works from Louvre Museum whose inventory number begins with an S (Source)
    • Works from the Islamic arts department of Louvre Museum (Source)
    • Map of artists with place of their birth on Wikidata (Source)
    • Location and image of the cathedrals of Paris (Source)
    • Jewish art collectors and dealers who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Notable descedents of Mayflower passengers

• Development
  • Add monolingual language codes rm-rumgr, rm-surmiran, rm-sursilv, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter (phab:T222426)
  • More work on the test system for federated properties
  • More work on displaying statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
  • Bridge: more work on generic error screens (phab:T241126)
  • Bridge: warn the user that they are about to edit anonymously (phab:T246676)
  • Work on a Wikidata distributed game for automated finding of references
  • Automated finding references: build a scraper, simple value matching, item analyzer
  • Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
  • Add more properties to the PageImages list (phab:T249811)
  • Use strict types everywhere in Wikibase (phab:T251382)

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) 15:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-19

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

• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [1]
• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #415

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

• Events
  • Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
    • Working on Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool by Lucas Werkmeister: Part 1, Part 2
    • Wikidata: Figure skating workflow, starting from scratch (installing and configuring everything on a new computer) by Harmonia Amanda: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
  • Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
  • Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
  • Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
    • Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
    • Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
  • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
    • Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
    • Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
  • How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
  • Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
  • Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names

• Tool of the week
  • WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
  • New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
  • A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
  • V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
    • External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
    • External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE
  • Query examples:
    • Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
    • African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
    • Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
    • Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
    • Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
    • Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
    • Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
    • Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
    • Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
    • Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches

• Development
  • Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
  • Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
  • Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
  • Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
  • Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
  • More work on automated 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) 15:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

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

• Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [4]

Problems

• Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6][7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes

• JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [8]

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20:40, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #416

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
  • Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by Wikidata:WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
  • Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
  • Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
  • How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
  • Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
  • The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
  • Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
    • External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
    • External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID
  • Deleted properties: P727
  • Query examples:
    • Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
    • Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
    • Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
    • Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
    • Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
    • Map of railways stations in France (Source)
    • List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
    • Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
    • Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
    • Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
    • US States with an A (Source)

• Development
  • In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g. ?fiancé, ?π) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
  • Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
  • More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
  • Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)

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 · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:30, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [9][10]

Problems

• There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [11]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [12][13]

Changes later this week

• The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [14]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [15]
• Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [16]
• Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

• The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:17, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #417

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.

• Discussions
  • Open requests for Oversight: Kostas20142, Esteban16

• Events
  • Past: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein on May 21st. The training in English was organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group. (replay)
  • Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #6 (YouTube)
  • Past: Art+Feminism virtual Wikidata editathon by Global Open Initiative on May 19. (Video) Part 1, Part 2
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende, event dedicated to the German-speaking Wikidata community, will take place fully remote on June 12-14. If you're interested, don't forget to register. We're looking for speakers to give introductions to Wikidata & tools.
  • Upcoming #vBIB20 (Q94495218) the first fully remote German library conference: May 26-28. Metadata about all presentations are already stored in Wikidata: Query. Some sessions and presentations are related to Wikidata or other Wikiprojects:
    • WikiLunch (Q94759294)
    • Die GND wikifizieren – Eine neue Plattform für die wachsende GND-Community (Q95245582)
    • Normdaten-Mapping mit Cocoda (Q95245533)
    • Die Datenlaube: Neues Wissen und Daten aus alten Texten – Mit Wikisource, Wikidata und mit Commons (Q95150422)
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #14, May 31

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The Missing Path: Diagnosing Incompleteness in Linked Data ("We describe our iterative design process and evaluation with Wikidata contributors")
  • EURECOM at the SemStats 2019 Challenge ("we study the coverage of [the official database of French enterprises] in Wikidata")
  • Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements ("we argue for the importance of negative information on knowledge bases, and present two methods to mine it")
  • Video: Editing Wikidata: File Candidates tool and World heritage of Visby - Youtube, Facebook

• Tool of the week
  • If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool: Structured Search, a tool allowing you to search through Wikimedia Commons using structured data, is now live. This tool by Hay Kranen was demoed at Wikimedia Hackathon 2020.
  • New tool: script by Tohaomg to easily rearrange the order of values for statements in Wikidata (to be added to your common.js page)
  • New documentation page: Wikidata:How to create Wikidata Tours
  • Teaching notes for introducing people to Wikidataː d:User:Einebillion/Teaching notes
  • The Wikidata development team created a distributed Wikidata game called Reference hunt!. With this game, you get a suggestion of an Item and a reference based on structured data from an external website. Try it and leave us feedback.
  • Gabriel, an intern at the Google Summer of Code is developing a tool to assist users in verifying (structured) data of media on commons. If you want to help, feel free to fill out this questionnaire.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: molecular model, is metaclass for, lighting, type of age limit, nominal share capital, content partnership category, field of training
    • External identifiers: iDAI.chronontology ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, ASUT ID, NMMA antiquities ID, NMMA built heritage ID, DB chgk, K-Scholar ID, Wyoming SHPO ID, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Co-Optimus ID, Bookogs credit ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, LiederNet text ID, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, MACRIS ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, Niden INE, 500 Queer Scientists profile, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, Natural Atlas ID, Colon Classification, MDAH's HRI ID, RI National Register Search ID, CTHS author ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, PC Games Database.de company ID, SNES central game ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Wikilengua article
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: US Fault ID, estimated value, funder, principal investigator, contributed to Wikimedia Commons by, Theater poster, transitive over, approval of subject, living people protection class
    • External identifiers: Monasteries in the Netherlands until 1800 ID, Library classifications' IDs for topics, Absolute Games game ID, Absolute Games person ID, Absolute Games developer and publisher IDs, ModelHub ID, npm package, AusStage person ID, AusStage venue ID, AusStage organization ID, AusStage work ID, Montreux Jazz Festival song ID, Montreux Jazz Festival person ID, motorsportstats.com event ID, Veldkruus, AustLit ID, AFL player ID, Bioweb Ecuador ID, FilmPolski press collection ID, NTB ID, Odeon ID, Montreux Jazz Festival concert ID, Canadian Football League player ID, cadastral municipality number in Austria, Britannica Kids, Latin texts IDs, Medusa NRHP ID, Noovie person ID, Artsdatabanken ID, ICTV taxnode ID, LongTake person ID, ESRB video game ID, OnlyFans ID
  • Query examples:
    • Famous mathematicians related to famous actors (Source)
    • West Highlands of Scotland rail line connections (Source)
    • Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (Source)
    • Interactive, zoomable tree map of second level administrative regions of the world (Source)
    • Number of alphabets which use this letter (Source)
    • Metabolites and the species where they are found in (Source)
    • Items in the United Kingdom with coordinate location (P625) on or near 1 degree 50 west (Source)
    • Map of Tunisian museums (Source)
    • Map of pairs of homonymous French municipalities linked by a colored line according to the distance (Source)
    • Women botanists or botanical collectors with a birth date prior to 1900 (Source)
    • vBIB20 lectures in Wikidata (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Schools

• Development
  • Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
  • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
  • Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
  • Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
  • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
  • Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)

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) 15:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

• From the editor: Meltdown May?

• News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

• In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

• Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

• Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

• Featured content: Weathering the storm

• Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction

• Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

• Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

• Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

• News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

• Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

• Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

• On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

• WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

• On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

• Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

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• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Wikidata weekly summary #418

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Dan Koehl 2

• Events
  • Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #15, June 7
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Discussion of our Wikidata priorities and needs as we plan for the group's future, 02 June. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • The WikiCite annual report 2019-20 has been published. Describing the "satellite event grants" program that was run (and details of the nine successful proposals); the changes that resulted from the COVID-19 shutdown of all in-person events; and a summary of WikiCite-related news from across the movement. For more details see Meta:WikiCite/Administration. For more information, contact LWyatt (WMF)
  • Defying Wikidata: Validation of Terminological Relations in the Web of Data
  • KORE 50DYWC: An Evaluation Data Set for Entity Linking Based on DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata, and Crunchbase
  • SchemaTree: Maximum-Likelihood Property Recommendation for Wikidata
  • Editorial: Special Issue on Quality Assessment of Knowledge Graphs Dedicated to the Memory of Amrapali Zaveri
  • European Semantic Web Conference 2020
    • Processing SPARQL Aggregate Queries with Web Preemption
    • SAShA: Semantic-Aware Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems Exploiting Knowledge Graphs
    • QAnswer KG: Designing a Portable Question Answering System over RDF Data
  • Past video: Querying Wikidata with a glimpse of SPARQL - Thorsten Butz - PSCONFEU 2020. YouTube
  • Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network Live Wikidata editing scheduled for 1st June at 7:00 PM UTC: YouTube, Facebook
  • Upcoming video (in Spanish): Wikidata Online Workshop: "Connecting Authority Resources with the Knowledge Graph" scheduled for 2nd June at 3:00 PM UTC: YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
  • Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
  • Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
  • As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
  • Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
  • New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
  • Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: curricula, attribution text, based on tabular data
    • External identifiers: FlashScore.com player ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Origin video game ID, npm package, FEMA number, Mod DB mod ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, Norwegian prisoner register person ID, ID natural monuments in Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, BaGLAMa GID, GMC membership number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: parish church, ISCO-08 occupation code, official product site, tag, heraldic attitude, Non volatile storage capacity
    • External identifiers: Australian Classification ID, EU-Football.info stadium ID, Semantic Scholar corpus ID, Olympedia ID, Emmys person ID, Archivio Storico Ricordi person ID, New York Times contributor ID, Cinema Context, Helsinki persistent building ID Ratu, Xfinity Stream ID, Juno Download album ID 2, sobory.ru, HBO Max ID, Yle Topic ID, Den Store Danske ID, Dansk litteraturs historie ID, Geneanet genealogist ID, IGRS video game ID, Wiki-Brest ID, Wiki-Narbonne ID, Wiki-Niort ID, Wiki Pas-de-Calais ID, Wiki-Rennes ID, Wikimanche ID, Wiki-Anjou ID, Picardia ID, Grandterrier.net ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, Proleksis enciklopedija ID, VIAF partner ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of German states with links to iNaturalist observations
    • Cities/towns named after people (Source)
    • Network of researchers who are vBIB20 co-presenters and are linked with a Wikidata item (Source)
    • Timeline of legalized same-sex marriages by country (Source)
    • BubbleChart of the 7,397 different keywords in DieDatenlaube (Source)
    • Weight of royal crowns (Source)
    • Recorded COVID-19 cases in difference Indian states (Source)
    • Twitter accounts of current UK MP's (Source)
    • Number of female employees at different organizations that Wikidata knows about (Source)
    • Location of libraries that have a GitHub repository (Source)
    • Location of 19th century infectious diseases published in Die Gartenlaube (Source)
    • People with an entry in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire and biographical articles in Die Datenlaube (Source)
    • Fictional spaceship captains from the Star Trek multiverse (Source)
    • Timeline of Selenographers, for the birthday of German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler and his famous map of the Moon (Source)
    • Points of interest 2 km within St. Jakobus church, Pesterwitz (Source)
    • Images of religious art whose main theme is Pentecost (Source)
    • World map of authors with both an ORCID and Twitter account ID's (Source)
    • Ratio of (days country has been in the UN) with (sum of periods of office for Heads of Government during that time) (Source)
    • Map of 2020 Art+Feminism editathons (Source)

• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Public art

• Development
  • More documentation for federated properties
  • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
  • More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
  • Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
  • Fix various bugs on Wikibase
  • Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
  • Create reports for the reference hunt game

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!

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Tech News: 2020-23

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

Recent changes

• There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [18]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [19][20][21]
• The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [22]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [23]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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