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Wikidata weekly summary #537
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- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
- Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Tool of the week
- View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
- Job opening:
- Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
- External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
- Query examples:
- Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
- Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
- Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
- Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
- Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
- Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
- Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
- Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
- Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership
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!
This Month in GLAM: August 2022
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Tech News: 2022-37
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [2]
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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #538
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- Task/s:
- Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
- Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
- Task/s:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
- The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
- Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
- WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
- Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
- Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
- Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
- ContribuLing 2021
- Dataviz
- Presentation
- Tool of the week
- WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
- External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
- Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
- List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
- Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
- People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
- French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
- Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
- World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
- Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
- Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
- Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
- Cause of death of US presidents by party
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
- Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
- Lexicographical data:
- Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
- Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
- Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
- Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
- Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
- Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Tech News: 2022-38
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
Two database fields in the
templatelinks
table are now being dropped:tl_namespace
andtl_title
. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field calledtl_target_id
. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
- In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [5][6]
Future changes
- In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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September music
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Thank you for improving articles in September! Yesterday, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it. And today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
travel and strings sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #539
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- 🧵 Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- JhsBot 6
- Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.
- JhsBot 6
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Presentations
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
- The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
- External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
- Query examples:
- Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
- Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
- Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
- Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
- Song titles that match female given names (source)
- Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
- Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
- Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
- People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
- Software license, by year (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
- Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
- Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
- REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
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!
The Bugle: Issue CXCVIII, September 2022
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Tech News: 2022-39
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
Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the
rel
attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
- Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [7]
- Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [8] [9]
- In the Module namespace, pages ending with
.json
will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [10]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Simple
Template:Simple has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 16:44, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022
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Books & Bytes – Issue 52
Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022
- New instant-access collections:
- SpringerLink and Springer Nature
- Project MUSE
- Taylor & Francis
- ASHA
- Loeb
- Feedback requested on this newsletter
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:21, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
This Month in Education: September 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022
- OpenEdu.ch: centralising training documents, a platform for the teachers' community in Switzerland
- Senior Citizens WikiTown 2022: Exploring Olomouc and its heritage
- Wikimedia Research Fund
- Wikimedia Youths Commemorate the International Youth Day 2022 in an exciting way across the globe
- Wikipedia, Education, and the Crisis of Information
Tech News: 2022-40
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
- Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [11] [12]
- The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
- Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [13] [14]
The
scribunto-console
API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]- The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.
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