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Wikidata weekly summary #415
- Events
- Past: Remote Wikimedia Hackathon, May 9-10 (see the showcase replay and the description of projects). Several Wikidata-related sessions took place:
- Past: Wikidata local school gathering was organised by Wikidata Taiwan. Link to Event page and dashboard
- Upcoming: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred, May 13th at 19:30 CEST
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
wikidata=*
tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube - Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
- Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
- How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
- Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
- Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
- Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding
- Tool of the week
- WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF linking to multiple items has been created: most of the items listed probably need merging - have a look!
- New tool: universal almanac based on Wikidata by Alexander Doria
- A proposal for a new Wikiproject Wikilambda that allows creating multilingual content in Wikidata that can be used in all Wikipedias. Signatures of support are needed and discussion and questions are welcomed!
- V1 of Wikidata Bridge is almost ready to be tested on Catalan Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: general property-based URL formatter, hardiness of plant, hardiness zone, ex-libris, voting system, supported metadata, tabular case data, Gazette of India notification
- External identifiers: motorsportstats.com team ID, Canadiana NCF ID, Indian Railways train number, SNCF Station Identifier, South African Company Registration Number, DART-Europe thesis ID, DoME exhibition ID, DPE school code, Epistemonikos ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, Joconde technique ID, PragerU presenter ID, regional government of Sicily ID, Anagrafe Istituti Culturali Ecclesiastici ID, BeWeb cultural institution ID, ACUM work ID, Reta Vortaro ID, Mozilla Developer Network article
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: social media followers, Gobbledygook, forearm length, number of stepchildren, number of adopted children, CV, axe, banned in
- External identifiers: NMMA built heritage ID, NMMA antiquities ID, Super Mario Wiki ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art person ID, Archaeology in Greece Online place ID, iDAI.gazetteer ID, iDAI.chronontology ID, identifiant SILL d'un logiciel, Lower Austrian Castle ID, Naturdenkmal-ID Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Bookogs credit ID, Bookogs work ID, Bookogs book ID, GMC membership number, Bibliography of the History of Slovakia ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali author ID, Augustins de l'Assomption ID, ASUT ID, Niden INE
- Query examples:
- Films claimed to pass the Bechdel test with less than 2 female cast members in Wikidata
- African-American librarians in Wikidata that don't have Wikipedia articles (Source)
- Magicians with known precise birth date (Source)
- Sheffield Shield cricket players and the number of states they have played in (Source)
- Number of Twitter followers of scientists at Dutch universities (Source)
- Former United Kingdom Parliament MP's still living (by first election) (Source)
- Number of paintings in National Gallery with artist and gender (Source)
- Nearby table tennis tables to public spaces for the Wiki Explorer Android application (Source)
- Map of Ramsar sites in France (Source)
- Highest software version numbers recorded on Wikidata (Source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Speed skating, Witches
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
- Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
- Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
- Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
- Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
- Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
- More work on automated references
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [1]
Problems
- Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2]
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [3][4]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
- JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via
mw.config.exists()
ormw.user.tokens.exists()
. You can useexists()
orget()
to check one at a time instead. [5]
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20:40, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #416
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Date in Wikidata not properly translated in Wikipedia table, Disallow merging into newer entity
- Events
- Upcoming: WikidataLab XXXIII: Wiki-Education and Data Literacy with Shani Evenstein - May 21st 1pm - 7pm (UTC). Organized by Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, the training will be held in English this time! Join us remotely!
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: João Alexandre Peschanski on Wikidata + Education projects he has worked on in Brazil, 19 May. Agenda
- Upcoming: Indian scientists datathon by Wikidata:WikiProject India. May 22nd to 24th, IST.
- Past: Live SPARQL queries session in French about Lexemes by Vigneron, May 12th at 20:00 CEST
- Past: Live Wikidata editing about video games by JeanFred (replay), May 13th at 19:30 CEST
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- WhatDoTheyKnow in Wikidata (blog post)
- How to use the Wikidata Query Service (in Italian): YouTube
- Introduction to Wikidata and data modeling: YouTube
- Tool of the week
- WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Update about the Wikidata 8th birthday events regarding the COVID19 situation
- The Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations have been published
- Read-only time for Wikidata on Tuesday 19th May at 05:00 AM UTC for 15 minutes due to upgrade and restart of services. Services targeting Wikidata may not work during the meantime.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: tilt, curriculum vitae
- External identifiers: The Conversation author ID, SILL ID of a software, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID, Bookogs work ID, Gitabitan.net ID, Arlington Cemetery person ID, CDAPNC author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: selma'o, originated from individual of taxon, media franchise, préposition, Edible parts, local time, langue fille, langue mère, langue sœur, banned in
- External identifiers: LiederNet author ID, LiederNet composer ID, LiederNet text ID, LiederNet song cycle ID, Colon Classification, Wyoming SHPO ID, norsk fangeregister person ID, K-Scholar ID, Wiener Wohnen ID, MDAH's HRI ID, National Register Database, Louisiana ID, RI National Register Search ID, MACRIS ID, Mod DB mod ID, GameBanana video game ID, NexusMods video game ID, BaGLAMa GID, Arkansas Register of Historic Places ID, Mediaqueer.ca Artist ID, Mediaqueer.ca Movie ID, SNES central game ID, CTHS author ID, correspondent of, Liszt Academy Lexikon person ID, 500 Queer Scientists profile, WorldFootball.net stadium ID, Worlds Without End author ID, Goodreads work ID, FlashScore.com player ID, National Football Teams.com match ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID, Origin game ID, Ubisoft Store game ID, LGBT Danmark dictionary ID, Book Marks ID
- Deleted properties: P727
- Query examples:
- Recommended units of measurement listed in the SI Brochure (9th, concise edition) (Source)
- Border with which all the municipalities of the Basque Country share (Source)
- Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (Source)
- Best snipers of the world by number of victims of killer (Source)
- Plans and photographs of the restoration works of cathedrals in the 19th century contained in the French National Archives) (Source)
- Map of railways stations in France (Source)
- List of African countries with their current leaders and their ages (Source)
- Point in time of Advisor and Student relationships for professions mathematician and computer scientist (Source)
- Drawings with an image that depicts a ship (Source)
- Map of National parks in Sweden (Source)
- US States with an A (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.
?fiancé
,?π
) can now be used more easily. (T227952) - Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
- Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
- More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
- Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)
- In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g.
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [6][7]
Problems
- There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [8]
- Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [9][10]
Changes later this week
- The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [11]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [12]
- Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects
div#p-personal
,div#p-navigation
,div#p-interaction
,div#p-tb
,div#p-lang
,div#p-namespaces
,div#p-variants
anddiv#footer
. They will have to removediv
. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [13] - Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects
#p-variants
,#p-namespaces
,#p-personal
,#p-views
and#p-cactions
. They can no longer use> ul
. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
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17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
- CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
- Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [14]
Problems
- There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [15][16][17]
- The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [18]
Changes later this week
- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [19]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).
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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
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
- Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [20]
- Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.
<b/>
is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr
can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect<references />
or<ref />
. [21] - There is a banner called
WikidataPageBanner
. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions onMediaWiki:Sitenotice
so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [22][23]
Changes later this week
- You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [24]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).
Future changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [25]
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21:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
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
- Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.
Problems
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [26]
- Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [27]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
- Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [28]
- The selectors
.menu
and.vectorMenu
will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts..menu
should be replaced byul
..vectorMenu
should be replaced by.vector-menu
. [29]
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21:37, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello Clarkcj12,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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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
- There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [30]
- Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.
.vectorTabs
should be replaced with.vector-menu-tabs
to fix this. [31]
Changes later this week
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [32]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).
Future changes
- A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [33]
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18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
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
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [34]
- Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [35]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
- The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID
searchGoButton
for the go button. This issearchButton
for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change tosearchButton
in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to usesearchButton
. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.
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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
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
- The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [36]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
- Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [37]
- The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
- Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)