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Sean Strickland
https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Sean_Strickland&action=history this new user is posting about Sean and putting "Strickland has made a number of comments disparaging women and women's rights, as well as LGBT people and their rights." in the first paragraph with additional ones disparaging his name. I feel this is more opinionated than factual and not necessary. Thoughts? Marty2Hotty (talk) 16:50, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Marty2Hoty Good day and thank you for the question. The section indicates what Strickland "said which is Stirland's own believe or opinion" which is supported by sources . When you are public figure, what you said/opinions at times will be recorded which in this sense it has which he said to the media and what he said was published to the public. We as the Wikipedia editor adhere to Wikipedia guidelines and the most important guidelines and also the policy of Wikipedia is info added or changed need to be supported by independent, reliable source for verification. In this case, the content is made the guideline and policy. Of course, not all sourced content are added to the body text, but whose are relevant. In this case, Strickland has always been comfortable voiced his opinions/believe in many topics, some are less interest by the media and some are recorded and published. In this case it is recorded in Wikipedia.
- RE" UFN 249 - I am one of the mentor for editor who would like to be a new page reviewer in Wikipedia and I am the one who set up the New Page Patroller School program for editor who want to participate in the program - see here Wikipedia:New pages patrol/School. I am not only the mentor for NPPS and teacher for counter vandalism unit - see [[1]] , but also a mentor for new editors and reviewer for the new page and draft page. Since you are here and I saw you submitted UFN 249 for review after I have stated in the draft page why the article did not meet the GNG guidelines. I know you dont like you dont like when I stated something of your edits are not accordingly to the Wikipedia guidelines and feeling that I am against you; however, in contrary I am here to help you just like all other editor in regardless what is their interest topics to edit in Wikipedia. Most mma editors, even thought edited before me, only interest to edit and do not care or know some of the Wikipedia guidelines and just use their own judgement and want to get the info out in Wikipedia. I have mentioned to you many times, and I hope this will make it clear to you this time. To have a page in Wikipedia, the subject needs to have significant coverage by the independent, reliable source where by the the sources talk about the subject in length and in depth and not passing mentioned for verification. So UFN 249, source (MMA junkie) even thought it is an independent, reliable source, it does not talk about the subject in length and in dept. Secondly, the is only one source and not supported by significant coverage by he media. Thus fails the GNG guidelines. X or any social media are considered not reliable sources as anyone can write what ever they want. Any private company governments of any country (UFC, Microsoft, AT&T, Samsung, US government sites, German government sites, Mastercard and etc.) are considered NOT reliable sources for published sources need to be with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. So the question is that who is checking source that is published private company governments of any country since they are the one who provide the source? Not the company nor the gunmen because they can said what they want. And further more, it is NOT independent, when the source stated about their own company/country. Remember, Wikipedia is an enclyopedia and not a plaftform, not a news papaer. We do do breaking news and need to get the info out to public asap but we recorded the subject if they meet Wikipedia GNG guildlines and of the content meet independnent, reliable sources verification guidelines.
- I want to thank you for the time you spent on editing Wikipedia. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information. I felt the 249 article could have been published earlier but a few days later is not a problem. I kind of disagree with you on the official source like UFC/ESPN, because all the "third party" sources do is quote what those official sources say. Some journalists on X are very reputable, but I understand we cannot draw the line between who is reputable or not. Many third party sources end up just linking to the X post anyway, so it is a little strange, but I understand.
- Anyways, UFC 307, a 2008 editor put "This will be the first UFC PPV to take place at the same time as a WWE PPV and livestreaming event—Bad Blood—since the two companies merged under TKO Group Holdings in September 2023." on the title. He is an active WWE editor and they feel this is relevant information to be put. I think it should be written lower due to the significance. Thoughts? Marty2Hotty (talk) 13:52, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Marty2Hoty Good day. You are not disagree with me but disagree with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. All social media is considered not reliable. If journalist post on X then they should have an article on their websites. RMEMBER Wikipedia is not a newspaper to publish breaking news but record what is relevant of the subject. So we dont add/change or create an article based on social media sources but independent, reliable source. Even some of the reliable source we can not use for GNG requirement if the source is reliable but not independent. Remember to have a page on Wikipedia the subject needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources where by the sources talk about the subject in length and in depth and not passing mention for verification. (note the highlighted words here which need to be met).
- Secondly, (for example) We also dont post other Microsoft subsidiary/sister project/product for other products for the subject of the article is only for the subject itself. So same as UFC 307 with WWE. Remember, we are not newspaper or writing a book or media site here, but Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Have a good ay. Cassiopeia talk 22:54, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Are you going to edit UFC 307's page. Someone added that in the beginning. Some journalists do not add everything they post on their social media on their websites. I also do not think a company like UFC/ESPN would lie about any of their events or fighters/bouts. That has not happened since UFC existed. All journalists do is use the official source and post it on their website. For example, a bout is mentioned on UFC's broadcast. So MMAJunkie just publishes it. It's the same as using the official source, is it not? Marty2Hotty (talk) 02:08, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Pls note that not all published content is inclusive as per guidlines. It has not directly relevant and important enough to be added. Cassiopeia talk 03:48, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Are you going to edit UFC 307's page. Someone added that in the beginning. Some journalists do not add everything they post on their social media on their websites. I also do not think a company like UFC/ESPN would lie about any of their events or fighters/bouts. That has not happened since UFC existed. All journalists do is use the official source and post it on their website. For example, a bout is mentioned on UFC's broadcast. So MMAJunkie just publishes it. It's the same as using the official source, is it not? Marty2Hotty (talk) 02:08, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:James Gallagher
Hello, Cassiopeia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "James Gallagher".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 21:46, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-34
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [2]
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property ofmw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [3][4]
Bugs status
- Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388. - Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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Question from JACOB MUNYOLE (19:52, 20 August 2024)
I want to. Write a Wikipedia --JACOB MUNYOLE (talk) 19:52, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- JACOB MUNYOLE Good day and thank you for the question. Pls complete WP:TWA short program (90mins) so you would understand some of the guidelines of Wikipedia which you serve you well in editing Wikipedia. Pls open the program in laptop and not in mobile as the program does not present well in mobile device. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 03:13, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from YouthChangemaker (19:34, 22 August 2024)
Suggest steps so I can start writing articles that get published on wiki --YouthChangemaker (talk) 19:35, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- YouthChangemake Good day and thank you for the question. To have an article in Wikipedia, the subject needs to pass WP:GNG guidelines. To meet the GNG guidelines, he subject of the article needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources such as from the major newspapers and books where by the sources talk about the subject in length and in dept and not passing mention for verification. All social sites, including utube, X, any sources that are related/affiliated/associated with the subject are considered either not independent or reliable. Pls read WP:Your first article for further details. I suggest you to complete WP:TWA, a 90 mins program, so you could understand some of the Wikipedia guidelines for editing. Let me know if you have further questions as I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 22:45, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #641
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
- New request for comments:
- Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
- Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?
- "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
- WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
- Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
- Videos
- (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
- Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
- Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
- Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
- Notebooks
- Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
- Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics
Tool of the week
- Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
- Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
- Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
- Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania
Development
- Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.
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.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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Tech News: 2024-35
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
- Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [5]
Bugs status
- Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
- Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
- If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
- Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.
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Tech News: 2024-36
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
- Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__
to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [6] - Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [7]
- Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [8]
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The Signpost: 4 September 2024
- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
- Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
- Traffic report: After the gold rush
Wikidata weekly summary #643
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.
Discussions
- Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
- (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (de) Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
- Papers
- KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
- Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
- Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
- Videos
- (es) Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- (es) Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
- Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
- Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
- (ar) Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
- (ar) 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
- Notebooks: Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin
Tool of the week
- Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
- QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
- agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, TV Maze character ID, identifiant Prosocour d'une personne, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, 365scores basketball team ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
- Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
- Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”
Development
- Wikidata Query Service:
- The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
- We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
- Wikimedia projects integration:
- We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
- We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.
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.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
- 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!
Mistake, I think
I don't think User:RadicalUranium was vandalizing the article Old Ephraim. He's been working on it for a while. I think the blanking was just a goof. Joyous! Noise! 04:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Joyous! and RadicalUranium: Hi Joyous! Thank you for the message. Hi RadiccalUranium, kindly state that in edit summary next time, so we the counter vandalism fighters would know and will check back of the edit as you stated in your talk page I made a massive copypaste error while adjusting the article and it duplicated sections of my work. I’m attempting to fix it.. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:38, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- That was absolutely my bad, I greatly appreciate you standing up for me @Joyous! and I sincerely apologize for not being clear with my edits @Cassiopeia. You both are wonderful, thank you. RadicalUranium (talk) 04:51, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- RadicalUranium Of about more than 80K counter vandalism work I have done, I could not count more than a hand full of editors who something nice to me who I place a warning(s) message on their talk page. Thank you. Ok. All is good then. You stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 04:59, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
A Barnstar for you!
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
For reverting so much vandalism and reporting so many spam users. Thank you! Loymdayddaud (talk) 05:30, 7 September 2024 (UTC) |
- Loymdayddaud Thank you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:35, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your clean-up efforts
Thank you for reverting vandalism at Condottiero and other articles related to Italian-Turkish conflicts. If you see any similar vandalism, please make sure to mention User talk:2A01:E34:ECAC:93E0:D5D6:C1ED:39BC:EB85 in your WP:AIV reports, as that will include the history of the interactions this morning, plus you can escalate the report immediately to block evasion. —C.Fred (talk) 10:24, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- C.Fred Good day and no worries. I have reported the ip editor on AIV and also (not related to this editor - 2A01:C23:91A0:F000:8CC3:E4DE:2CB3:CED but both of the ip editors are still on AIV report even they have been blocked. I will do as your advice of the above if I see anything of the sort. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 10:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hrm. AIV's bots may not pick up /64 range blocks, then? I may need to mention that at Village Pump. —C.Fred (talk) 10:29, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- C.Fred I think so but I am not sure. 2A01:C23:91A0:F000:8CC3:E4DE:2CB3:CED was blocked by Oshwah. Since you are here can you see if 65.192.20.6 deserves a block (warned twice) , I think the editor might be the sock or meat sock of 108.24.196.46 as 108.24.196.46 was blocked for similar edits on talk pages of Palestine and Gaza/Israel pages as both IP users are from VA and same town/city. Thank you in advance. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk
- @C.Fred and Oshwah: Update - 65.192.20.6 just got bloked by Oshwah. Thank you Oshwah. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 10:43, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Cassiopeia - *wipes hands clean* All in a day's work. ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 10:45, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Oshwah: Thank you Osh! Cheers. Cassiopeia talk 10:48, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- @C.Fred and Oshwah: Update - 65.192.20.6 just got bloked by Oshwah. Thank you Oshwah. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 10:43, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- C.Fred I think so but I am not sure. 2A01:C23:91A0:F000:8CC3:E4DE:2CB3:CED was blocked by Oshwah. Since you are here can you see if 65.192.20.6 deserves a block (warned twice) , I think the editor might be the sock or meat sock of 108.24.196.46 as 108.24.196.46 was blocked for similar edits on talk pages of Palestine and Gaza/Israel pages as both IP users are from VA and same town/city. Thank you in advance. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk
Requesting NPP school
I just recommended to attend NPP school so, I would like to attend one. Please be my trainer. Thanks. I already done the essentials Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 03:57, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- Miminity Sorry for the late reply. I saw the ANI and understand the issues at hand. Pls note that NPPS program do require a lot of you time as it is comprehensive and have 9 assingments and 1 final exam. Most participants finished the program in 3 months but there is no time frame to finish it. You work on your own pace as we are all volunteers and at time we have other more important commitments in our personal life. If you want work on the assignment due to exams or other things require your attention in your life for the 2 weeks then just leave a note at the "communication section" of the assignment do I may know. If you still want to proceed then let me know and I will set up the program for you. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Idk, Let's see. I tried to become a good NPP and slowed my pace and actually follow what people from ANI told me to do. So, I think I pass FOR NOW. But, I will learn more and more since I continue to review and read instruction carefully. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 07:45, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Miminity All the best. Cassiopeia talk 08:23, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Idk, Let's see. I tried to become a good NPP and slowed my pace and actually follow what people from ANI told me to do. So, I think I pass FOR NOW. But, I will learn more and more since I continue to review and read instruction carefully. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 07:45, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Miminity Sorry for the late reply. I saw the ANI and understand the issues at hand. Pls note that NPPS program do require a lot of you time as it is comprehensive and have 9 assingments and 1 final exam. Most participants finished the program in 3 months but there is no time frame to finish it. You work on your own pace as we are all volunteers and at time we have other more important commitments in our personal life. If you want work on the assignment due to exams or other things require your attention in your life for the 2 weeks then just leave a note at the "communication section" of the assignment do I may know. If you still want to proceed then let me know and I will set up the program for you. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
AIV report
Are you sure that you listed the correct IP for this report? I only see one edit that might be mildly problematic, and no warning on the talk page. Is there something I'm just not seeing? Joyous! Noise! 02:57, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Joyous! sorry. Missed the last digit number when copy and paste on AIV. Corrected at AIV - IP is 49.148.104.232. Thank you for letting me know. Cheers. Cassiopeia talk 03:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
Double draftification
Draft:Krikor Bogharian has already been draftified before, so you cannot draftify it again. Furthermore, it has sources listed that fully support the content and notability. Please be more careful when patrolling. (t · c) buidhe 04:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- Good day. I dont know anywhere guideline states it can not be double dratification and if you know then send me the link as I dont see in WP:DRAFTNO unless I missed read them. Kindly add inline citation as per your sources. Cassiopeia talk 04:39, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- This is WP:DRAFTNO#8. Another editor moved it back to mainspace, so you cannot draftify again. Inline citations are not required. (t · c) buidhe 04:51, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- I see, so it is not about double dratification but object by you which you move it to the main space. Inline citation would help for reviewer to know which sentence is as per which source but since that is only one sentence in your sub class article guess you dont want to do it. Cassiopeia talk 04:53, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- This is WP:DRAFTNO#8. Another editor moved it back to mainspace, so you cannot draftify again. Inline citations are not required. (t · c) buidhe 04:51, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
CATS RULE!
thats it. CATOPEDIA (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Could you please update Aljamain Sterlings picture?
The current photo is from 6 years ago so it’s quite out of date, could you update it to his appearance from UFC 300? CoyPandora (talk) 11:35, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
- CoyPandora, Good day. Photos/Images uploaded in in Wikipedia need to be free of copyright from the copyrighted holder - this means whoever took the photos/created images allow anyone in the world to use the photos/images by "by irrevocably agree to release their copyrighted images/photos under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License". So there are thousands of Sterling photos in the internet but we can only used them in Wikipedia pages if the copyright holder allow it on their website or they took the photo and uploaded to Wiki Commons. As such, I would not able update Sterlings' photo without the said findings. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 22:35, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #644
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).
- Next: (pt) Auditive Health Project – Workshop Wikipedia and Wikidata 10 September - Expand and contribute to articles and items on Audiology, this event will be held in 3 participating Universities in Brazil. Register on Etherpad.
- Upcoming: The program for the Celtic Knot Conference 2024 is now available to view! Whether you're interested in language preservation, digital tools for minority languages, or simply connecting with like-minded individuals, there's something for everyone. The conference will take place in Waterford City from September 25-27, 2024
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- (de) TIB Blog:The TIB project WikiRemembrance - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you can register for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
- Correcting outdated facts in Wikidata - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
- Adding citations between existing articles in Wikidata - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
- Videos
- Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
- (ar) Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Session 3: SPARQL Query - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service.
Tool of the week
- User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
- Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- Handwriting exaple (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, CNES ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
- agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
- damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
- magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
- male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
- Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes, LMFDB knowl ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontobee id, newgrounds.com game ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Ideas of queries/list of sense properties
- Showcase Items: atheism (Q7066) - absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
- Showcase Lexemes: 𒆠𒅅𒂵𒉘 (L1347328) - Sumerian verb, means 'to love'
Development
- (BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT) Wikidata Query Service graph split available in production; scholarly entity queries require migration by March 2025
- We ported many WikibaseLexeme browser tests from WebdriverIO to Cypress (phab:T355934)
- We’re working on improving the MUL support in the mobile termbox (phab:T373088)
- We’re updating the “label in language” constraint for MUL (phab:T370293)
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.
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Canada
- 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: 2024-37
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [9][10]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()
andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)
will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [11]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [12]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOS
namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:
(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos
). [13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
CVUA
Hi, unfortunately I am in school right now and I have made the decision to temporarily take a break on Wikipedia for the sake of my education (and somewhat for my mental health). Thanks for being a great mentor for our short time together. I may return occasionally and work on my assignments but I'm just letting you know that I will mostly remain inactive on Wikipedia (although I still will frequently check my talk page). Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 01:49, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
- GoldRomean Good day and thank you for informing me. You are always welcome to continue when you school break starts. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:51, 13 September 2024 (UTC)