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Tech News: 2024-12
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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [2]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3][4][5]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [8][9]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [10][11]
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Question from DMorningstar99 (19:44, 18 March 2024)
Hello, will all creation and editing formats be done in coding languages? I would like a rundown as to how I can create and how I create a page. Thank you. I am familiar a bit with python but I doubt that is what is used. --DMorningstar99 (talk) 19:44, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
- DMorningstar99, Good day. Frist of all pls read WP:Your First Article to understand what is needed. Secondly, pls use horizontal format Template:Citeweb for inline citation (source). And lastly pls see Help:Wikitext for some basic markup language. The point is that for a subject to have a page/article in Wikipedia, the subject need to pass the notability guidelines which means the subject needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources such as from the books or major newspaper (no social media/official websites/any sites that related to the subject) where by the sources talk about in length and in depth and not passing mentioned for verification. It depends what is the subject, some subject would have a certain format set up by the Wikipedia project page. Let me know if you if you need further assistance for I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from Justfacts10 (11:05, 23 March 2024)
Hi mentor,
Please how do obey Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements? I have gone through this [12] but I still don't know how to go about it.
Please walk me through it. I'm trying to create a page.
Best regards, --Justfacts10 (talk) 11:05, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Justfacts10 Good day. Pls let me know are you a paid editor and which company/subject that paid you to write an article? Cassiopeia talk 11:57, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- I don't understand what you mean by a paid editor. I usually edit without getting paid. However, I have a paid gig on my desk and I'm trying to figure out how to go about creating the page.
- How do I make it work? Justfacts10 (talk) 12:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Justfacts1 If you have a paid gig for creating an article that make you a paid editor. By the way, what is the subject? Is that Draft:Jaytime? Cassiopeia talk 12:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- yes,it is. Justfacts10 (talk) 12:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Justfacts10, you draft has been declined 3 times due to the subject is not notable as per Wikipedia guidelines and could not be able to have a page in Wikipedia. Pls read WP:Your First Article.
- For Paid editor disclosure, you need to indicate that in the article talk page - here indicating you are a paid editor for singer "Jaytime" in Nigeria. You also need to indicate that in your user page of the same info. Pls use this for the article talk page and the template is under "you should post the disclosure at the top of article talk pages as follows:". As for your user page pls first template under Text usage on user pages. By the way, pls note that even paid editor is allowed in Wikipedia, however, it is highly discouraged. Cassiopeia talk 13:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. I think I have indicated that in the article talk page - here indicating that I am a paid editor for the singer "Jaytime" in Nigeria. Please help me review if I am missing something. Justfacts10 (talk) 18:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Justfacts10 Reviewed. As mentioned to you before, subject fail the notability guidelines.21:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. I think I have indicated that in the article talk page - here indicating that I am a paid editor for the singer "Jaytime" in Nigeria. Please help me review if I am missing something. Justfacts10 (talk) 18:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Justfacts1 If you have a paid gig for creating an article that make you a paid editor. By the way, what is the subject? Is that Draft:Jaytime? Cassiopeia talk 12:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Je Good Morning, bonjour
Bon petit matin de Montréal, I am a new user in English Wikipédia. I Will Take all my times to read Conventions in Women projet. I like biography of canadian and Women or québécoise Women. In French Wikipédia and Commons, my work is on the Neighbourhoods of Montréal. How do you help ne ….
merci beaucoup de votre aide, Laurence Héron du fleuve (talk) 12:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Héron du fleuve Good day and thank you for your message. I notice you have join Women in Red project which is a great project on creating women article. Another WikiProject you might want to look into is Wikipedia:WikiProject Quebec. Since you are a new editor, I suggest you to take WP:TWA - a short program so that you could familiar with some of the Wikipedia basic guidelines which will serve you well in editing. As to create an article, pls read WP:Your First Article. Pop back here if you have any questions. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 13:16, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
public draft help
Hello, could you please help me by reviewing my translation of and article? Draft:Siergiej_Davidis I cannot publish on English Wiki, or so it seems. This is a translation of my article in Polish. I will work on some references, finding info in English rather than in Polish, but the body of the text is there. Kind regards, IddyIggy (talk) 08:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC) IddyIggy
Wikidata weekly Summary #621
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!
- Events
- 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
- Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
- Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
- Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
- YouTube Video Playlist
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates? by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
- At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser” by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
- Papers
- Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
- Videos
- Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
- Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project, presented by Adam Anderson.
- Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
- Wikipediapodden episode 254 (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
- How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement? (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
- Notebooks
- Cycling stage race explorer, an Observable notebook
- Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
- Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
- In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
- Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
- Nanopublication identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
- media modality (lists which media modalities are present, particularly in digital, multimodal creative works such as electronic literature)
- height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
- External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, hyatt Hotel ID, ECF rating code
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- document keywords (Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.)
- official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
- Imagehash difference hash (Imagehash difference hash is hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical.)
- Image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
- RTE substation ID (Identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
- Caste (Property to indicate the caste affiliation of individuals in India.)
- External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address, TMDB TV IDs, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, AllSkaters persons ID, Triton Poker player ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, Mammal Diversity Database ID (MMD ID), BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
- Newest properties:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
- Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews Project - this project aims to populate and enrich items connected with participants of The Suffragette Interviews.
- Newest database reports: Most sitelinked items - explore this DB report if you're curious to see what is connected most frequently to Wikidata Items.
- Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 - in A Major, Op. 92, by Ludwig von Beethoven.
- Showcase Lexemes: अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
- We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
- EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
- IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
- Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.
- Wikibase REST API:
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.
- Weekly 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!
Tech News: 2024-13
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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [13][14]
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The Signpost: 29 March 2024
- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
- Humour: Letters from the editors
- Comix: Layout issue
Women in Red April 2024
Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304
Announcements
Tip of the month:
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Tech News: 2024-14
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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [15]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [16][17]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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Wikidata weekly summary #622
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
- Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
- Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
- Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the Ga Language and Twi Language as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
- Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
- Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
- Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.
Tool of the week
- Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
- Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections
- Dashboard of Members of European parlianent - by PAC02
- ORACC & Cuneiform Project - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- form decomposition (decomposition of a word)
- nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
- media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
- height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
- Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
- image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
- Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
- RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
- follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
- intervener ()
- WEM facility code ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Oxford Reference entry, Peertube Channel Address, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, AllSkaters persons ID, BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog Author ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, BeSoccer player ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, KupiGolos game ID, ffspb.org player ID, Touhou Wiki id, TUESPWiki id, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- List of masters theses written in Māori (source)
- Tram systems with 1435mm wide rails (source)
- Location and official opening of statues in Denmark (source)
- Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it (source)
- Remakes of Soviet films with their popularity (source)
- Images for all monuments with a Bavarian monument authority ID in Passau administrative district (source)
- Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
- WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
- Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
- Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
- Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
- Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: This query shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! (source)
- Showcase Items: INS Vikrant(Q2283194) - 1961 Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy
- Showcase Lexemes: لله قوریسین/Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish interjectional locution 'God forbid!'
Development
- mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
- REST API:
- We continued work on modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
- We continued work on creating Items (phab:T342990)
- EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Sandwich
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Cassiopeia,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
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Help
Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (talk) 09:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx Good day. You need to specify what kind of help you need. Cassiopeia talk 09:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx on User:Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (09:46, 3 April 2024)
Change --Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (talk) 09:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from TIRue on Gang stalking (12:40, 3 April 2024)
How can we protect "Zerzetsung" from being removed in the See also.section? --TIRue (talk) 12:40, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- @MrOllie and TIRue:, Hi TIRue, Good day and loop in MrOllie here as User MrOllie reverted your edit. I am not familiar with paranoid delusions mental state subject but my understand is that Gang stalking is a Psychosis and not a Zerzetsung. However, to say that I think MrOllie can explain to your better (have a discussion) at the article talk page on this matter. Pls do not forget to ping the editor when a discussion message is set up. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response. I think we need to stay away from the narrative/reporting that Gangstalking is any sort of medical diagnosis I.e psychosis (result) and more so an (action) I E act to carry out surveillance.
- Much like gangstalking, and as proven by history. Zerzetzung an (action) was carried out....
- "With the aim to disrupt the working of groups and the lives of individuals to such a degree that their activism became ineffective, or more preferably, ceased altogether."
- Targets report that Gangstalking is meant to disrupt every aspect of their life.
- It is alleged that common targets are whistleblowers, dissidents, undesirables, minorities, working class and political opponents.
- @MrOllie: thoughts? TIRue (talk) 03:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
Inches to cm
74 inches in cm is 187.96 and not 190 cm. According to your edit on Nate Marquardt, you lack basic knowledge and tend to just edit or revert for the sake of it. Be better. Articlread (talk) 02:11, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Articlread As per source it is 74inches and see my last edit. You place the stand which have no source. You are welcome to add it back provided there is a source to support it and that is the warning message was for. Pls do not remove the year in which the fighter fought in certain divisions. Cassiopeia talk 02:14, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- You did the work for me. Thanks alot and thanks to me, you now know that 74 inches is equal to 188 cm and not 190 cm. Articlread (talk) 02:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Articlread info is as per source in inches and I didnt put conversion. Pls do not remove the source as it is a vandalism edit. Cassiopeia talk 02:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from I dont even know anymore bro (03:38, 7 April 2024)
Is editing really that easy? --I dont even know anymore bro (talk) 03:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I dont even know anymore bro Good day and thank you for the question. To edit Wikipedia is not difficult if you know some of the basic guidelines. I suggest you to complete WP:TWA program (30 mins) so you may familiar with the info/guidelines to edit Wikipedia. I have sent you a welcome message on your talk page. Do check out the links (highlighted texts). Let me know anything else I can help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:49, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
an idiot
an idiot AQuickBrownFxJumpsOverTheLazyGoat (talk) 08:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- AQuickBrownFxJumpsOverTheLazyGoat You have vandalized all the pages you have edited and personal attacked on editors. You will be blocked from editing. Cassiopeia talk 08:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #623
- Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via Jitsi - see you there!
- Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
- Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
- Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! Get your Wikidata submissions in.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
- Videos
- Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
- Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.
Tool of the week
- Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- nanopublication identifier (RDF-based publication, with references and history)
- media modality (which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature)
- height of letters (height of the letters of an inscription)
- Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
- image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
- base units (property that lists the different units that a unit is derived from, would be useful to add a qualifier for the exponent of each unit)
- International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
- RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
- Newest External identifiers: OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- official gazette (periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution)
- follows spelling paradigm (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
- WEM facility code ()
- API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
- Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''type of representation''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, BSWW team ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, ffspb.org player ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Oxford Reference subject ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
- MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
- Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
- Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
- Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"
Development
- REST API:
- We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
- We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
- EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
- mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)
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.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- 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!
Tech News: 2024-15
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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [18][19]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [20]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [21][22]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [23]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from MigrationExpert (19:14, 10 April 2024)
hello! how can i add a photo to a page and do a bit of formatting? --MigrationExpert (talk) 19:14, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- MigrationExpert Good day and thank you for the question. You can add photo from the Wikipedia Commons or you can upload a image/photo which you are the copyright holder (you are the one who took the photo or create the image) HERE where by you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. Once the image is uploaded in Commons, then you can copy the file name and paste it on the article of your choosing which the image is related to the article. You also can upload images that from
Public domain and Fair use/non-free - Pls read Wikipedia:Image use policy for further details.
- As for formatting, I am not sure what kind of formatting you meant. Pls be specific. thank you. Cassiopeia talk 09:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)