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Wikidata weekly summary #630

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<translate> 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 2024-06-03. Please help Translate.</translate>

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Discussions

• Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
• New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
• Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
• Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

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<translate> Events

• Wikidata workshop at the university of Catania, Sicily, Italy, on June 14th.
• Lexicodays 2024, June 28-30, online event dedicated to Lexicographical Data on Wikidata with a focus on languages of Indonesia. Proposals for the program open until June 20th.

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<translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available at wdlite.toolforge.org.
  • (fr) Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
  • (fr) Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
• Papers
  • Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata: In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
• Videos
  • BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
  • Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
  • Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
  • ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego? (Spanish) - User:Piracalamina and User:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
• Miscellaneous
  • Wiquizz a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

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<translate> Tool of the week

• WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.

</translate> <translate> Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Infobox is now used by over 5 million Commons categories.
• Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Head of Product Strategy and a Senior Software Engineer.

</translate> <translate> Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
    • population by native language (native language population of a place)
    • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
    • taxon synonym of (''(without English description)'')
    • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of replaced synonym (for nom. nov.) (P694))
    • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of original combination)
    • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of basionym (P566))
  • External identifiers: Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, WIPO Lex ID, Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, ‎Jedipedia.net ID, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas hospital ID, Atarimuseum ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, LGD Village Code, LGD District Code, LGD State or UT Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, SNARC ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Artcena ID, Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Sinhala Cinema artist ID, Sinhala Cinema film ID, Meurgorf identifier, milog.co.il entry ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, ‎Milldatabase ID, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, IAFD actor UUID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Norwegian prisoner of war camp ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik work ID, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, PLC (primary location code)
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
    • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
    • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
    • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
    • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
    • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
    • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
    • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
    • model for (2) (what the subject is a conceptual or scientific model/theory for)
    • Dynasty (A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchy or imperial system but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty can be used to describe the time period in which a person lived, an event happened, a work was created, or a place existed.)
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
    • antonomasia (epithet or phrase that takes the place of a proper name)
    • screen size (Size of a display screen as measured along the diagonal)
  • External identifiers: NLR editions, glubinka.by, Cerist journal ID, Soldatregisteret ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, person ID in MNAHA, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, JJM Habitation id, Justapedia, PNG School Code, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, SALDO sense ID, Flown From The Nest person id, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, Seret film ID, Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus ID, Oxford Paperback Thesaurus ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Paleobiology Database ID for this journal article, Naturalis Repository ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat identifier, 广播电视播出机构许可证编号, Vikidia ID, This Is Basketball player ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! </translate> <translate> Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mountains with a height over 7000m - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
  • Find Items that share an Identifier - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
  • Who has worked with this Celebrity? - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
• Schema examples: Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
• Newest WikiProjects: Timna Valley - a community project on the Timna Valley archaelogical site.
• Newest database reports: Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
• Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
• Showcase Lexemes: Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.

</translate> <translate> Development

• EntitySchemas: The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued working on the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990)
• We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (phab:T366236)

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. </translate> <translate> 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: Gambling
• 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!

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Tech News: 2024-23

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Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [1]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [2]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [4][5]

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Question from April Glaser-Hinder on User:April Glaser-Hinder/Sample page (03:00, 4 June 2024)

Hi Cassiopeia

I'm trying to help 96 year old April Glaser-Hinder, an internationally recognised artist, winner of first prize in the 13th Biennale Internazionale Dantesca in Ravenna in 1998, whose works are now owned by a number of Australian art galleries, including the National Gallery of Victoria (https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/35764/). . She is the niece of Australian artists Frank Hinder (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hinder) and Margel Hinder (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margel_Hinder).

It seems I started on the wrong foot with Wikipedia last night while helping April create an email address and then trying to create a Wikipedia account with her. April was unaware of Wikipedia. She has no internet at home and spends her time organising records of her extensive body of work in self-published books, papers, photos and CDs. She's not selling her artwork, which is all now owned by others.

It was therefore my idea, not hers, that she should create her own Wikipedia entry, so it's accurate and complete before she dies and so much knowledge is lost with her. But now reading Wikipedia COI guidelines it seems that will be problematic and maybe I should create the entry under an account I create for me, although it would still be based on the material she makes available to me. The problem now is that my account would be using the same IP address as April.

Any advice you can provide to guide April and I would be appreciated. I've used Wikipedia since its inception but its editing policies are totally new to both of us.

Regards Vicki Tac --April Glaser-Hinder (talk) 03:00, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

April Glaser-Hinder Good day and thank you for the question. May I know what is your relation with April? Cassiopeia talk 03:05, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I became April's friend two years ago when I moved nearby. Her immediate family are all dead, including her first and second husbands. She has no children, but she has a good relationship with the family of her deceased sister's deceased husband. I have their agreement to try to create a Wikipedia entry for her. April Glaser-Hinder (talk) 06:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

I will try to create an account under my name, with my email address, so it's clear who's editing. But will I be blocked now that my IP address is also being used by April? April Glaser-Hinder (talk) 06:32, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @April Glaser-Hinder Not usually. The sole reasons why you may be blocked in regards to April is if you don't follow our spam, COI, sockpuppetry, or meatpuppetry policies. Cass, if you have any more reasons, feel free to add, those are the ones I can think of. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 00:31, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

April Glaser-Hinder See below:

1. WP:COI - since you are a friend of Hinder, that means you have a COI/conflict of interest. We do not an editor to write an article of the subject you have a COI with.

2. WP:PRIMARY - since you have a COI with Hinder, and your info of Hinder is from Hinder herself, that means your source is primary which can NOT be used to contribute to the WP:GNG criteria which we would accept the article in Wikipedia.

3. You can use the same IP address (such as 3 members of a family using the same IP address via wifi), but you can use the Wikipedia account of other editor (such as little brother using big sister Wikipedia account) as that would considered sock puppet and you will be blocked indefinitely for violating the guidelines. If you are doing so, I suggest you to STOP it IMMEDIATELY.

4. To have an article in Wikipedia, the subject need to pass the WP:GNG guidelines, which means the subject needs to be have significant coverage by independent, reliable sources where by the the sources talk about the subject in length and in dept and not passing mention for verification. Cassiopeia talk 05:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Wbergsman on Draft:Bergsmanwriter (21:48, 5 June 2024)

Hi. Some of my citations were photos, i.e., of a birth certificate, newspaper article. How do I insert those? --Wbergsman (talk) 21:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Wbergsman, Good day and thank you for your questions. Since your user name is Wbergsman, may I know is Bergsmanwriter is related to you? Cassiopeia talk 05:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, Bergsmanwriter is my husband. But, he hasn't used that in a long time. Where did that name turn up. 72.195.196.251 (talk) 15:37, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

It appears that you are logged out. Please be careful to avoid logged-out editing, it may be confused with sockpuppetry. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 15:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

My husband says bergsmanwriter may not be him, because he never joined Wiki before. . Maybe there is another Bergsman who is a writer. Wbergsman (talk) 23:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Bergsmanwriter is my husband. But, he hasn't used that in a long time. Where did that name turn up? Wbergsman (talk) 16:01, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Also, it seemed the problem with the "entry" I was working on was the pictures in the citations. I redid all the footnotes so there it is only text, no pictures. When can I re-post the new version? Wbergsman (talk) 16:04, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Wbergsman It is difficult to help you when we dont have the URL of the info you mentioned "the entry on the pictures". If it is not on a URL page when pls details the info so I can help. Secondly, you mentioned on your talk page that you mentioned " because I'm already blocked" - see HBoldERE and if you have previously edited Wikipedia and have been blocked, could you pls provide your blocked user name or your IP address pls. Cassiopeia talk 01:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

I thought you were the person who blocked me. But, I guess not. I submitted for publication a new entry, eliminating all the photos in the citations. ~ 8 June 2024

Wbergsman (talk) 15:12, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Wbergsman As mentioned, what was your Wikipedia user name which you got blocked or your IP address so I could understand the nature of the edit of the publication of photos in the citation as your have stated a few times above. Cassiopeia talk 06:38, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

As far as I know, my Wikipedia user name was, or is, wbergsman. But, that's irrelevant now. I have rewritten an entry for Wikipedia and it's on wbergsman/sandbox. What happens next? Wbergsman (talk) 16:42, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Lati zeddy on Help:Introduction to Wikipedia (19:50, 6 June 2024)

Hello how can I post a photo --Lati zeddy (talk) 19:50, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hello, @Lati zeddy, and welcome to Wikipedia! It's unclear what you want to do. Do you mean uploading an image to Wikipedia? Please clarify. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 00:18, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

CVUA

I would like to join the CVUA please. How do I do this? Baqiya! Allahu akbar! (talk) 03:55, 7 June 2024 (UTC

Inzala Good day. Thank you for interested in CUVA program. Editor needs to have at least 200 main edit to join the program and currently you have 0 (2 edits in Wikipedia talk page (Teahouse) and 1 in my talk page). I suggest you to go through WP:TWA program first to understand some of the basic Wikipedia guidelines which will serve you in editing Wikipedia. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:42, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from ExponentielUSA (20:38, 7 June 2024)

I want to establish myself as an authority in a specific domain of business. Can you direct me on how best to do that? --ExponentielUSA (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

ExponentielUSA Good day and thank you for the question. I could not help you of your request as this is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and I am here to help editors on questions on editing Wikipedia and understand Wikipedia guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

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• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

• News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

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• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

• Essay: No queerphobia

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

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CVUA

Hi, I have been spending some time at RC patrol and I am interested in enrolling in the CVUA. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 16:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

GoldRomean Good day and thank you for interested in joining CVUA. Pls note that the program do require you to spend time on reading the guidelines (reading material/guidelines links) and working on the assignments (10 assignment and 1 final exam). Most editors take about 3 months to complete the program. Pls note that there is no time limit to complete the complete as every editor works on the assignments on their own pace. With the info above and if you are still interested in joining the program, then pls let me know and I will set up the program for you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:40, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm still interested. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 01:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

GoldRomean, I have set up the program for you. Pls read the message on the "communication section" at the end of the assignment prior start answering the questions. If you have any questions regarding the program/assignment questions/assignment reading material (guidelines' links) and when you have completed the assignment, pls ping me at the "communication section". Welcome to CVUA. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:58, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thank you :D. GoldRomean (talk) 14:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cassiopeia Hi, I'm finished with the first assignment. I don't mind if you're busy and don't have time to grade it/answer my large amount of questions but I just wanted to make sure that you got the ping since it's my first time pinging someone on a user page. Cheers! GoldRomean (talk) 12:58, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from 876Scribe (16:48, 9 June 2024)

Hello I've been assigned to watch a wikipedia page for a politician that is susceptible to malicious changes. Is there a way I can lock the page? or become admin for the page? --876Scribe (talk) 16:48, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

@876Scribe (talk page watcher) No, but if vandalism becomes repeated, you can request protection here. Happy editing. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 03:06, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #631

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 2024-06-10. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
  • TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
  • Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
  • EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
• WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
• Videos
  • (es) How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
• Notebooks
  • Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
  • Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

Tool of the week

• Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Vikidia ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
  • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
  • Burgenwelt (Burgenwelt; castles)
  • construction time ({{Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times | de = <!-- Die Bauzeit bezieht sich auf die Zeit, die benötigt wurde, um ein Gebäude zu errichten, was manchmal länger, gerade früher, als ein Jahr brauchte --> <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
  • Nom dans la langue locale ()
  • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, AllGame style ID, MoFo ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, FC Metz player id, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID, itch.io numeric ID, produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet, Phasmida Species File taxon ID, Psocodea Species File taxon ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv studio ID, filmas.lv person ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Elonet company ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average height of people named Joe
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
  • Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate (Q11415564) by French universities.
  • HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
  • OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
  • Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
  • Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
• Newest database reports: Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
• Showcase Items: Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
• Showcase Lexemes: bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

Development

• The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
• Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (phab:T366871)
• EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (phab:T365686)
• Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (phab:T366236)
• Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)

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:
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (Talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-24

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 software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [6]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [7]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [9][10]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [11]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Kentucky and WikiProject Louisville

Hi, just to let you know, both of the subject projects are subprojects of Wikipedia:WikiProject United States and use its banner. They haven't used their own individual banners since 2011. Because UFC on ESPN: Cannonier vs. Imavov happened in Louisville, it belongs in the Louisville project. The Louisville project is a child of Kentucky's. Hope this makes sense. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 07:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

StefenTower My understanding is that unless the topic/article is about US specifically and not about certain states or cities, then US project will be used, if know then the specific state to be used and that is the reason why the state template existed in the first place. US has the sates in project talk page is different from the rest of the world which all topic of the country integrals of which state or city the topic is resides will be only state as in the country which is the only project template we have in English Wikipedia. Cassiopeia talk 08:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

As a longtime member of these projects, I'm happy to help explain. Many but not all states and cities in the U.S. operate as subprojects of WP United States and use its banner and have done so since 2011. In these cases, they do not use their own individual banner. And many of these old banners have been deprecated. Just because the WP US banner is used, that doesn't necessarily mean the article involved applies to the whole country, but in an ultimate sense, the event we are covering here did indeed take place in the United States. Hope this helps. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 08:13, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

StefenTower What I read years ago of the banner info might be outdated and if the sub state banner is not longer used then, it should not be in the list for choosing in rater tool. Cassiopeia talk 08:29, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

It is possible that some deprecated project templates in the Rater tool should not be in there. Rater has been known to occasionally have issues with what it lists for selection. As for Kentucky, it appears that Rater continues to include the Kentucky template but only as a wrapper for WP United States. Ultimately we use the WP US template as you will see in any of its included articles. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 08:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

StefenTower Since Rater show the states in the list, I will continue to use them as it is not clear which one is deprecated and which one is not. If you happen to come across, then welcome to change. Thank you and Stay safe. Cassiopeia talk 08:49, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

States and cities that aren't in WP US show there, of course. At any rate, I do make changes if necessary to place the correct current template for WP KY or WP Louisville (which is WP US), as seen in this case. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 15:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Regenstien (20:53, 12 June 2024)

Hello, I have not made many edits so I wanted to bring this to the attention of someone more involved in the community, but the Rise section of the Pope Adeodatus II article is confusingly written and seems like an argument which to my understanding might belong more in the talk section. How do I request someone take a look at it? --Regenstien (talk) 20:53, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Regenstien Good day. I have removed a small part which I believe an editor just added on for some disagreement - see HERE. I could not able to verify the info is as per source as the source is a book and not available from internet searching. Cassiopeia talk 12:29, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Your contributed article, UFC Fight Night 244

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, UFC Fight Night 244. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – UFC on ESPN+ 102. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at UFC on ESPN+ 102. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 22:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Trevor Lyttleton (15:49, 13 June 2024)

I'm looking for an expert London UK Wikipedia consultant to prepare a wikipedia entry from my.Bio and wish to know if this be done in 2 weeks and the price

Trevor Lyttleton --Trevor Lyttleton (talk) 15:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Trevor Lyttleton Good day and thank you for the question. Pls note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and to have a page in Wikipedia the subject needs to pass the notability guidelines. All editors are volunteers and we paid editors are not strongly discourage by Wikipedia. Cassiopeia talk 12:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #632

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 2024-06-17.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updating callsign, frequency and FCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
  • M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Events

• Looking ahead
  • Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
  • Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
  • Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
  • (de) 20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
• Papers
  • Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
  • Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
• Videos
  • WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
  • What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
  • Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.

Tool of the week

• Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945) - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
• Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
    • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
    • construction time (Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times)
    • Nom dans la langue locale ()
    • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
    • coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
    • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Douban Personage ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, stiga.trefik.cz, PMC journal ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Tool Registry for Digital Humanities
  • Operas ordered by First Performance
  • Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
  • Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
  • ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
• Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
• Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
• Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
• Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (phab:T366871)
• We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (phab:T367174)

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: Gambling
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) · 17:45, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

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

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [13]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [14][15]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [16]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [17]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [19][20]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [21]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [22]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kawa Brass Band (10:46, 19 June 2024)

How can i add photo to the home page --Kawa Brass Band (talk) 10:46, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Cassiopeia, note: This user is indef blocked for promotion. GoldRomean (talk) 01:41, 20 June 2024 (UTC)