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The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Wikidata weekly summary #563
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
- Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
- HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
- New request for comments:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
- Past
- Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023
- Ongoing
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Podcasts
- WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.
- Tool of the week
- Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
- EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
- REST API:
- We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
- We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
NPP School
Heya, Cassiopeia! I'm looking to get into New Page Patrol, and am wondering if you'd like to tutor me for a bit, so that I can get some experience in the area of New Page Patrol. Thanks, Justarandomamerican (talk) Have a good day! 21:32, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-11
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [1][2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Jasmine Jasudavicius
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Hello, Cassiopeia. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jasmine Jasudavicius".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, 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.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 01:03, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
Wikidata weekly summary #564
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- Events
- Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
- Papers
- Videos
- Notebooks
- Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- system requirements (system requirements for video game or software)
- External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
- Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
- Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
- REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-12
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will appear on Special:Contributions — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
The Special:AbuseFilter edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Special:Unblock and via the API. [4]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Counter Vandalism Unit Trainer
I would like to join the Counter Vandalism Unit. Can you be my trainer? AirmanKitten203 (talk) 16:38, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Question from UsualDrama (14:42, 24 March 2023)
please do not spam me --UsualDrama (talk) 14:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
- UsualDrama You have a total of 2 edits so far, one on your user page and one here - see here. I have no prior interaction with you prior this and do not understand where your above statement coming from. Cassiopeia talk 23:46, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red April 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #565
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- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
- WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
- Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
- Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
- Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
- Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
- How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
- Notebooks
- Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
- first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
- External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
- Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
- Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-13
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [5]
- Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [6]
- Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [7]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).
Future changes
- You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [8]
The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [9]
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:11, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Your recent reverts
Hello. Can I ask why you reverted these edits? [10], [11], [12], [13]. Your edit summary of "M" was unhelpful in identifying why you reverted them. Thanks. – Pbrks (t • c) 22:51, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, I see now, you just sent EssentiallySports to the draftspace. No need to respond. Cheers. – Pbrks (t • c) 22:53, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Reviewing draft
Hi there I apologize for bother I was wondering if you could review Draft:Julius Anglickas i think page have enough info and refernc to be moved to mainspace? DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 23:06, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- DarkHorseMayhem I have reviewed but the article has yet to meet WP:GNG or WP:MMABIO. Pls note that to pass GNG, the subject needs to be have significant coverage by independent, reliable sources where by the sources talk about the subject in lenght and in depth and not passing mention. Sources that covered the announcements of the fights or fight results would be considered routine reports and can not be used to contribute to the sources required. I will send you a list of info on the guidelines and norm on edit MMA events or fighter page. Also do pay attention and observe how the MMA fighters' articles or MMA event pages by experiences MMA editor for sometimes prior edit those pages. Again, pop back here if you have any questions. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:22, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
Just asking you if you're interested in the discussion on a NSPORT criterion. P.S. When will you release the second assignment on NPPS? Thanks! Timothytyy (talk) 09:30, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- Timothytyy Sorry that I was busy for the last two weeks as my friend was in town. I review the assignment at soonest. Cassiopeia talk 00:20, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Timothytyy Assignment reviewed and posted assignment 2. Cassiopeia talk 05:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #566
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
- IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
- MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Past
- Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
- WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda
- Past
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
- Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
- A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
- Can you trust Wikidata?
- Videos
- Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
- Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
- Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
- WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
- A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
- Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
- Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
- Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
- External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
- Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
- REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Submitted work
Hello @Cassiopeia, I am reminding you that I have finished my assignment and have notified you on the discussion page for almost a week, you didn’t reponde. Thank you Uncle Bash007 (talk) 11:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
- Uncle Bash007Sorry that I was busy for the last two weeks as my friend was in town. I review the assignment at soonest. Cassiopeia talk 00:21, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Alright Mr. Cassiopeia. Take your time pls.Uncle Bash007 (talk) 00:24, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Uncle Bash007Reviewed and assignment 3 posted. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 09:07, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank u.. Best.Uncle Bash007 (talk) 13:54, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Uncle Bash007Reviewed and assignment 3 posted. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 09:07, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Alright Mr. Cassiopeia. Take your time pls.Uncle Bash007 (talk) 00:24, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
"ESPN+ 44" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect ESPN+ 44 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 April 3 § ESPN+ 44 until a consensus is reached. TartarTorte 16:52, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-14
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [14][15][16][17][18]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
- Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [19]
The deprecated
jquery.hoverIntent
module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQueryhover()
oron()
instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [20]- Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [21]
- You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new
__ARCHIVEDTALK__
magic word. There will also be a new.mw-archivedtalk
CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [22][23][24]
Future changes
- The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Question from ChristyMcG (02:53, 4 April 2023)
Hi - I need to edit the page for Chalmers W Sherwin. He’s my grandfather and some basic information is wrong - including the date that he died. --ChristyMcG (talk) 02:53, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- ChristyMcG Hi good day. All info added or changed in any articles need to be supported by independent, reliable source such as from the newspaper or books. Since you are related to the subject, that means you have a conflict of interest to edit the page. You can request edit by providing the source and ask for assistance on the article talk page and any interest editor will add or change the info for you as per source. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 05:46, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Deleting sandbox of vandal soccket puppet
Hi Cassi sorry for bother i was wondering if you could delete User:LSS 2552/sandbox cause it belong to user who have multiple accounts Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LSS 2552/Archive..i really dont think his sadnbox deserver to be on wiki anymore would you mind deleting it? DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 23:54, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
- @DarkHorseMayhem , good day and thank you for the message. the editor was banned due to sock and they could not edit anything in Wikipedia and we would leave it at that unless the sandbox is compromised. be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:03, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Why? DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 00:57, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- @DarkHorseMayhem is the sandbox compromised? if not let it be as the editor is already banned for good. enjoy UFC 287 and have a good weekend. Cassiopeia talk 01:08, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Why? DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 00:57, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Israel Adesanya
- He is Nigerian, he called himself a Nigerian in this video, talking about “the Nigerian spirit”. I don’t think you know him more that he knows himself, with all due respect.
- Note: Wikipedia doesn’t allow posting a YouTube video general i think. Just search this video on YouTube “Nigeria’s UFC fighter Israel Adesanya shares his story”
Amaekuma (talk) 10:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Also search. “Israel Adesanya talks about his Nigerian root, experiencing racism as a kid and becoming a champ” on YouTube. You don’t know his roots more than he knows himself, with all due respect. This is out of the horse’s mouth himself. Amaekuma (talk) 10:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
- Amaekuma Thank you for the message above and I have reverted your edit. First of all this is Wikipedia and we as the editor follow the guidelines when we edit. The core policy of Wikipedia is info added or changed needs to supported by independent and reliable source. This mean (1) Utube and all the social media is considered not reliable (2) the info from the source which is related to the subject (such as the info from Izzy himself) is considered not independent. Lastly under Wikipedia MOS:NATIONALITY "The opening paragraph should usually provide context for the activities that made the person notable. In most modern-day cases, this will be the country, region, or territory, where the person is currently a citizen, national, or permanent resident" which means Izzy got his notability when he was a citizen and resident of New Zealand and not when he was in Nigeria when he was 11/12. Pls do not change the info again. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:52, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-15
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In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [25]
You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [26]
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- There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [27]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Sup
Hey Cassi first of all i hope you had great easter and good time watching UFC 287.Second i was wondering is Draft:Michael Morales (fighter)is good to go or need more improvant i didnt submit anything just asking. DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 22:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
- @DarkHorseMayhem and HeinzMaster: (loop in Heinz here) Good day and yes it was a very good event especially the fights between Curtis vs. Gustelum and the MW title bout. The draft above is not yet meet the requirement for the notability requirements to merit a page in Wikipedia mainspace. (Note: all articles in Wikipedia need to meet the Wikipedia notability requirement in order to be in the Wikipedia main space in regardless how long the articles have been existed in Wikipedia, if any articles are found to not meeting the notablity requirments after a WP:BEFORE, we can always nominate the article to be deleted via WP:AfD discussion). There is lot of bodytext without the supporting source. For MMA fighter to have a page in Wikipedia, the subject needs to pass either WP:GNG or WP:MMABIO notability requirements. I am watching all the draft pages for the MMA fighters and I believe so is User:HeinzMaster. So in another words, we will update the info on those pages and when the time is right (meet the notability requirements) we will place the pages in the mainspace (I saw you asking help from Heinz on several draft pages, and I can tell you, he will update the info accordingly and move the page to mainspce when it is ready which he has done many times). However to say all that, you and any editors are always welcome to improve the article (add info/change info) as long as the info added or changed is supported by independent, reliable source with inline citation to meet the Wikipedia verifility core policy. (Let me know if you need to know how to add inline citation to show the source in an article). To learn the basic Wikipedia guidelines do need some time and it is a steep learning curve for most editors, I have provided you some guidelines and not most of them as it is overwhelming for new editors to understand them all, so if you have other questions, do pop in here as I am here to help. Btw, I saw you WP:Copy edit (ce) some of the MMA fighters' articles (pages), and I would like to thank you for the contribution and effort spent. Welcome to the MMA community of in Wikipedia. Be safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 00:30, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #567
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- Discussions
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- RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
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- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
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- How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
- Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
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- The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
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- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
- location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
- External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
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- orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
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- External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
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- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).
- Newest properties:
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- EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
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- REST API:
- We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
- The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en
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