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Wikidata weekly summary #629

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-27. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: ELMCIPBot - Task: Import records from ELMCIP Knowledge Base (Q113705072) as part of the Wikidata WikiProject Digital Narratives
• New request for oversight: KonstantinaG07 - RfP scheduled to end 8 June 2024 16:09 (UTC)

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
• Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
  • Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples - following on from the previous post, this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
  • Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them Bob DuCharme inspired by WikiFlix demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
  • Enhancing KG's with LLM's: A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
• Papers
  • RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
  • Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknüpfung von Entitäten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
  • ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
• Videos
  • FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap (German) - A presentation of ​​what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

Tool of the week

• Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a machine learning project manager to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • category for births in this time period (category item for people who born in this time period)
  • category for deaths in this time period (category item for people who died in this time period)
  • representation type (property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
  • source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
  • destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
  • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
  • population by native language (native language population of a place)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, ‎Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, ‎Jedipedia.net ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
  • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
  • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
  • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
  • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
  • taxon synonym of (taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of {{P|1420}})
  • Competitor (Competitors in game shows)
  • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of {{P|566}})
  • land acknowledgement ()
  • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of {{P|1403}})
  • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of {{P|694}})
  • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
  • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, IAFD actor UUID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Meurgorf historical dictionary, SNARC ID, milog.co.il entry ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Milldatabase ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Solarpunk - aims to collects Wikidata Items (focus list) and supports the Solarpunk Movement.
• Newest database reports: Items without Labels - explore Wikidata Items that are missing a Label. This list is handy for finding abandoned, incomplete or vandalised Items.
• Showcase Items: Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565) - German public broadcaster
• Showcase Lexemes: L1221007 - Nynorsk noun, translates to "a spy ring"

Development

• EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (phab:T362004)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We looked into how to improve error messages.
  • We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (phab:T347394
  • We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (phab:T342990)
  • We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (phab:T342993)
• Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:13, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22

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

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [1][2]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [3]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Change4Cornwall

Page: 2024 United Kingdom general election in South West England

Diff: Special:Diff/1226274262

Comment/question: edits are fine and Facebook is the only link to independent candidates as no website is available

Change4Cornwall (talk) 16:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Change4Cornwall, you haven't used a title for the first reference. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to other languages.

Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:14, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #630

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-03. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
• New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
• Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
• Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

Events

• Wikidata workshop at the university of Catania, Sicily, Italy, on June 14th.
• Lexicodays 2024, June 28-30, online event dedicated to Lexicographical Data on Wikidata with a focus on languages of Indonesia. Proposals for the program open until June 20th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available at wdlite.toolforge.org.
  • (fr) Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
  • (fr) Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
• Papers
  • Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata: In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
• Videos
  • BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
  • Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
  • Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
  • ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego? (Spanish) - User:Piracalamina and User:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
• Miscellaneous
  • Wiquizz a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

Tool of the week

• WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Infobox is now used by over 5 million Commons categories.
• Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Head of Product Strategy and a Senior Software Engineer.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
    • population by native language (native language population of a place)
    • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
    • taxon synonym of (''(without English description)'')
    • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of replaced synonym (for nom. nov.) (P694))
    • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of original combination)
    • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of basionym (P566))
  • External identifiers: Dhliz ID, RAG ID, ‎The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, WIPO Lex ID, Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, ‎GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, ‎Jedipedia.net ID, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas hospital ID, Atarimuseum ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, LGD Village Code, LGD District Code, LGD State or UT Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, SNARC ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Artcena ID, Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Sinhala Cinema artist ID, Sinhala Cinema film ID, Meurgorf identifier, milog.co.il entry ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, ‎Milldatabase ID, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, IAFD actor UUID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Norwegian prisoner of war camp ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik work ID, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, PLC (primary location code)
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
    • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
    • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
    • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
    • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
    • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
    • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
    • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
    • model for (2) (what the subject is a conceptual or scientific model/theory for)
    • Dynasty (A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchy or imperial system but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty can be used to describe the time period in which a person lived, an event happened, a work was created, or a place existed.)
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
    • antonomasia (epithet or phrase that takes the place of a proper name)
    • screen size (Size of a display screen as measured along the diagonal)
  • External identifiers: NLR editions, glubinka.by, Cerist journal ID, Soldatregisteret ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, person ID in MNAHA, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, JJM Habitation id, Justapedia, PNG School Code, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, SALDO sense ID, Flown From The Nest person id, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, Seret film ID, Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus ID, Oxford Paperback Thesaurus ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Paleobiology Database ID for this journal article, Naturalis Repository ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat identifier, 广播电视播出机构许可证编号, Vikidia ID, This Is Basketball player ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mountains with a height over 7000m - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
  • Find Items that share an Identifier - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
  • Who has worked with this Celebrity? - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
• Schema examples: Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
• Newest WikiProjects: Timna Valley - a community project on the Timna Valley archaelogical site.
• Newest database reports: Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
• Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
• Showcase Lexemes: Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.

Development

• EntitySchemas: The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued working on the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990)
• We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (phab:T366236)

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.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
• 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!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 17:00, 03 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-23

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

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [4]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [5]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [7][8]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

MassRFD

Hi. Is there an RfD equivalent of MassCfD? --MikutoH ^talk! 22:58, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, no, but I could write a modified version of MassCFD for RfD if that would be helpful. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:59, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

That would be helpful. Though I think most of y'all use XFDcloser or something, I guess it requires so user groups/status. --MikutoH ^talk! 03:28, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, XFDcloser is for closing discussions, not starting them. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

For what it's worth, myself and at least a few others at NPP would love this type of feature. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:21, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey man im josh, I'm working on this in tandem with the below. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:11, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey man im josh, MikutoH, you can try User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js. I haven't tested it much so I'd warn against really large nominations when you're not prepared to revert your edits.
Let me know what you think, and how I could improve it, as well as any bugs you find. Particularly it could break MassCfD (don't use both scripts at once).
Just wanted to get something out there instead of leaving you hanging. It should work fine, but undoubtedly they'll be at least a few bugs. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

It didn't work somehow. I use English Wikipedia in English but my edits acted as if it was in Portuguese, is it because of the language of my PC/browser? --MikutoH ^talk! 23:35, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

See Special:Diff/1224215842 --MikutoH ^talk! 23:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, oops; fixed. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

It worked now. But it didn't notify one user since different users created the redirects (flexisexual/flexisexuality). --MikutoH ^talk! 04:49, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It didn't even notify anyone in gastrosexual/gastrosexuality --MikutoH ^talk! 04:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

It was also misplaced --MikutoH ^talk! 16:19, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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MikutoH, the latter problem was fairly easy to fix - the script was adding the nominations in the wrong place, so every else using Twinkle added their newer nominations below (e.g.). I'll have a look at the other issue. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:38, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I've also fixed the issue of users not being notified. It was because they were idefinitely blocked, and the script skips notifying indefinitely blocked users. In this case, however, the block was only partial, so I've fixed the script accordingly. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:53, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Another thing is notifying target's talk pages (in hard redirects). --MikutoH ^talk! 19:21, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, I'll start working on that. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

A possible improvement suggestion would be selecting redirects from "Page information" page like Cat-a-lot. Not sure if this would be too complex. --MikutoH ^talk! 23:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@MikutoH I absolutely love that idea. It's absolutely one of the most common scenarios when you'd batch redirect nominations. Hopefully this won't be too tough an ask, because I'm quite hyped about the idea. Hey man im josh (talk) 00:27, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey man im josh, at that point you're better off finding another script that can output the titles in text format, and just pasting that into MassXFD. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:06, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Good point actually. Why overcomplicate things :P Hey man im josh (talk) 10:45, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

It seems MassCFD has the same problem about browser language. And I tried submitting a merging MassXFD for categories and it simply don't go anywhere. --MikutoH ^talk! 23:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, yes, I haven't updated MassCFD.js - you can use MassXFD instead, that should work. There was a bug in MassXFD where it essentially used an RfD check for CfD, which I fixed earlier and I've just updated the script for now. — Qwerfjkltalk 08:26, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

I tried an old nomination for ambisexual and it marked as today, also if that's just for listing, it doesn't add it to the old nomination. --MikutoH ^talk! 23:44, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, I can't fix any bugs currently because I'm away on holiday. — Qwerfjkltalk 05:49, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, actually, that's expected behaviour, though it could probably do with improving. — Qwerfjkltalk 06:30, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, I've fixed the "marking it as today" issue; it's unreliable to parse sections so the script won't add them to the nomination automatically. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:53, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Question from FalitoMardinoyo47 (14:00, 3 June 2024)

Hello, thank you for being my mentor. I wanted to ask you if you have any contacts with admins? I edited some articles that were filled with propaganda, could you tell me if I did the correct thing? Some Kurds are deleting any non-Kurdish thing from city articles. --FalitoMardinoyo47 (talk) 14:01, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

FalitoMardinoyo47, I'd suggest discussing this with the editors who reverted you on their talk pages or the talk page of the article rather than repeatedly reverting them, which is known as edit warring and is disruptive. Make sure you have reliable sources to back yourself up. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I backed my changes with sources of international universities, but they got removed because of Kurdish propaganda. That's not acceptable. FalitoMardinoyo47 (talk) 19:36, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

FalitoMardinoyo47, on Hakkâri (city) (history) you were initially reverted with the summary not appropriate to delete sourced information with that edit summary, and then again when you edit warred; see also the edit with the summary you are citing wiktionary and another dictionary for the word akkara, and then you relate it to the work Hakkari, where is the source evidencing that correction? Also please read WP:QUO. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:19, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from BenBinLen (00:55, 6 June 2024)

How do you find more reliable citations? --BenBinLen (talk) 00:55, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

BenBinLen, it would help if you specified the article; you can try these links:
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
replacing the search query with something more appropriate to your article. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:20, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Good citizen of india , secular (16:04, 6 June 2024)

How to tell random people on Wikipedia that they have edited certain things wrong ?? --Good citizen of india , secular (talk) 16:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Good citizen of india , secular, their talk page would be a good start. Remember to always assume good faith. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay thank you Good citizen of india , secular (talk) 12:29, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

CFDlister bug

Hi Qwerfjkl! Just wanted to let you know that CFDlister has a bug in Vector2010 which prevents it from appearing. I am all but certain it is a result of the recent heading markup changes (VPT discussion). Would you be able to take a look at this? Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 04:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

HouseBlaster, I thought this would happen, was hoping Vector 2010 and Vector 2022 would change at the same time. Oh well. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:53, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. Just needed a minor change. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:04, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 15:55, 8 June 2024 (UTC)