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I'm right behind you

on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits, at #185. You're #184.

But seriously, have you heard back from the Wikimedia CEO yet? I'd appreciate a ping to let my know whenever you receive an official response to your query to the board of directors. I started an offsite discussion about this matter, which may be of interest to you. Really, I'm right behind you. Best, wbm1058 (talk) 13:17, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have a reply, but due to my travelling have not yet had time to digest it, let alone consider a response. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 03:17, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, Wikisource Conference 2025, first in ten years... I did not know there even was such a conference. I suspect that if the response was hard to digest, lawyers were involved in crafting it ; wbm1058 (talk) 21:26, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #667

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #666

Discussions

Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.

Events

Upcoming:
- Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
- How to the use the w:20th Century Press Archives as Source (Digitaler Themenabend: Das Pressearchiv 20. Jahrhundert als Quelle - in German) will introduce into research in the archives and into the work of Wikipedia Projekt Pressearchiv - Tuesday, February 18, at 18:00 UTC (informal registration)
- New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter. Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The second session will focus on choosing your project. Event page
- (workshop) Wikidata Lab XLIV: Launch of QuickStatements 3.0 on February 24 at 15:00 UTC. Register here and watch it on WMB's YouTube channel!
- Wikidata and Wikibase: Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities. Talk on Wednesday, 5 March. By Information Services, University of Edinburgh. (register)
Past:
- Wikidata at WikiLibCon 2025
- Exploring Wikidata & Building Community for Cultural Heritage Professionals

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Visualising the Wikibase ecosystem using Wikibase World by Addshore
- Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good
Videos
- From Open Collaboration to Customized Control: Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase. Presented by John Samuel, this talk explores Wikibase, a self-hosted platform that brings the power of Wikidata to your own infrastructure.
- (Ukranian) The Role of Wikidata in the development of the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia. This talk discusses how Wikidata has been used to support populating a small language Wikipedia with content.
- (Portuguese) Mapping etymology on OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata Tiago Lubjana demonstrates how to map etymology in OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata, using the streets of the Butantanã Institute as an example.
Podcasts: Between The Brackets Episode 173: Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde

Tool of the week

Fedipol (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
OpenRefine 3.9.0 was released

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 30 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4, 2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people who live and whose ancestors lived at a location)
- study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
Newest External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, ESPN.com football match ID, WPBSA.com player ID, World Snooker Tour tournament ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, EJU judoka ID, Yandex Music track ID, Video Game History Foundation Library agent ID, Video Game History Foundation Library subject ID, Video Game History Foundation Library resource ID, Toonopedia ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ERR keyword ID, El Watan topic ID, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes entry ID, ‎CPC Zone game ID, New York Post topic ID, National Trust Heritage Records ID, Records of Early English Drama ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, PWBA.com player ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- The College of Cardinals Report (ID of the person on the The College of Cardinals Report website)
- Nation Ranking (secondary) (Nation Ranking (primary))
- Peh-oe-ji (writing system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (romanization system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
- leader of organization (This property identifies the top executive leader of an organization, regardless of the specific title used by the organization.)
New External identifier property proposals to review: National Gallery ID, SteamDB developer ID, Steam Group ID, Identifiant d'une personne dans le Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise, Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID, DRTV IDs, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Hiking Note plant identifier, Identifiant d'une personnalité sur Calindex, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur Calindex, Identifiant dans le dictionnaire de la BnF, The Atlantic topic ID, Kulturenvanteri place ID, Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID, VGC IDs, Audiomack artist-ID, Audiomack album-ID, Audiomack sang-ID, Wikishire Page ID, Kulturdatenbank-ID, TERMDAT ID, United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database ID, Homosaurus ID (V4), IRIS UNIL author ID, Kantonsspital St.Gallen Author ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Big Finish Release ID, TermTerm UUID, FU-Lexikon ID, Miraheze wiki ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, domain name

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Did you know?

Query examples:
- What tropical cyclones have hit Indonesia? (source)
- Cheeses named after towns
Showcase Items: Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (Q183529) - stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine
Showcase Lexemes: hacer (L39182) - Spanish verb that can mean "do", "create", "pretend" or "play a role".

Development

Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)

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: Cuba
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2025-08

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

Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [1]
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [2]
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [3]
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [4]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [6][7]
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:14, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in February! - I point at a composer today, as the main page does. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jolyon Jenkins

Hello I have written an article on BBC journalist Jolyon Jenkins However at the moment it is nominated for deletion. I see that you have written or contributed to discussions on a number of BBC journalists and I feel you might be in a good position to assess whether the article is fit for purpose, in particular whether it meets the notability criterion. If you could have a look I'd be very grateful Frobisher2021 (talk) 17:07, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it does meet our notability requirements, but if you can add further sources to back that up it won't hurt. Jenkins must surely have been the subject of press profiles or interviews? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:40, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #668

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #667